NoaIzumiGlobal Warming Skepticism: Sometimes it Truly is Amazing
February 1st 2009 03:12
John Coleman is best known to most people for being a longtime broadcaster who was the founder of the Weather Channel. He’s also a global warming skeptic, well, no, he’s a contrarian, well, no, he’s actually an out-an-out denier. And living proof that age does not necessarily bring wisdom.
The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam, by John Coleman
“The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle… He greatly expanded the Institute's areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming"
Actually, the story started several decades earlier, with Svante Arrhenius, who first discovered that CO2 was a greenhouse gas … in 1896. In fact, it was Arrhenius who first thought of the possibility that industrial processes would eventually emit enough additional CO2 to change the climate.
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“even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas.”
They didn’t have to. Arrhenius, and the researchers who followed him, already had.
“how this trace gas, only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on temperatures. . . the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny, about 41 hundredths of one percent.”
Once again, the dishonest comparison of carbon dioxide to the entire atmosphere, even though 99% of the atmosphere is not composed of greenhouse gases.
In spite of its “trace” status, CO2 is responsible for 9 to 30% of the greenhouse effect.
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And I love how Coleman attacks Dr. Revelle’s character, calling him a con artist and alarmist and all but accusing him of being part of a conspiracy to impose one-world government, and then says, “Oh, by the way, he agreed with us at the end.” Of course, that’s awfully easy to claim, since Dr. Revelle isn’t here to say any different.
This is a different view (with supporting documentation) on the Revelle “change of heart”:
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“He (Dr. Fred Singer) assures me that Revelle was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem.”
Highly unlikely, given the content of the following affidavit from Roger Revelle’s secretary at the time.
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“Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas.”
Increased drilling actually wouldn’t lower the price of gas very much, if at all, as I showed in an earlier post on this blog.
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“It is the hoax. It is bad science”
Well, I guess John Coleman would know.
The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam, by John Coleman
“The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle… He greatly expanded the Institute's areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming"
Actually, the story started several decades earlier, with Svante Arrhenius, who first discovered that CO2 was a greenhouse gas … in 1896. In fact, it was Arrhenius who first thought of the possibility that industrial processes would eventually emit enough additional CO2 to change the climate.
Really Long Link
“even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas.”
They didn’t have to. Arrhenius, and the researchers who followed him, already had.
“how this trace gas, only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on temperatures. . . the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny, about 41 hundredths of one percent.”
Once again, the dishonest comparison of carbon dioxide to the entire atmosphere, even though 99% of the atmosphere is not composed of greenhouse gases.
In spite of its “trace” status, CO2 is responsible for 9 to 30% of the greenhouse effect.
Really Long Link
Really Long Link (PDF)
And I love how Coleman attacks Dr. Revelle’s character, calling him a con artist and alarmist and all but accusing him of being part of a conspiracy to impose one-world government, and then says, “Oh, by the way, he agreed with us at the end.” Of course, that’s awfully easy to claim, since Dr. Revelle isn’t here to say any different.
This is a different view (with supporting documentation) on the Revelle “change of heart”:
Really Long Link
“He (Dr. Fred Singer) assures me that Revelle was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem.”
Highly unlikely, given the content of the following affidavit from Roger Revelle’s secretary at the time.
Really Long Link (PDF)
“Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas.”
Increased drilling actually wouldn’t lower the price of gas very much, if at all, as I showed in an earlier post on this blog.
Really Long Link
“It is the hoax. It is bad science”
Well, I guess John Coleman would know.
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