Dr Gordon J Fulks:
Global Warmers are forever calling those of us who disagree with them ‘Deniers.’ This thinly veiled reference to the Holocaust and the murder of six million people is far from appropriate. Do Skeptics deny the Holocaust and the science? Of course not, but it brings up an interesting question:
Who denies natural climate change?
- Who denies the importance of variable solar irradiance and the possible importance of solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays?
- Who denies that our Sun is a variable star?
- Who denies that our oceans contain the vast majority of mobile heat on this planet and therefore
dominate our climate, year to year and decade to decade?- Who denies the importance of natural ocean cycles like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO),
discovered by researchers studying salmon?- Who denies clear cyclical variations in our climate, easily traceable to ocean cycles?
- Who denies that our recent warming commenced about 1830, long before significant burning of
fossil fuels?- Who denies that ice core data clearly show that recent warming is consistent with previous
warm periods, like the Medieval, Roman, and Minoan?- Who denies that CO2 lags temperature in the ice core data by as much as 800 years and hence is
a product of climate change not a cause?- Who denies 150 years of chemical measurements of atmospheric CO2 that suggest that ice core
reconstructions of past CO2 concentrations are low by 60 ppm?- Who denies that the global temperature went down for three decades after World War II, despite
significant increases in human emissions of CO2 due to industrialization?- Who denies that water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas and by far the dominant climate gas,
not CO2?- Who denies that increasing CO2 is a substantial benefit to plants and therefore helps us feed the
seven billion people on this planet?- Who denies that our oceans are alkaline not acidic and can never turn acidic because of buffering?
Only those people who believe that consensus trumps science are deniers. We have become so dependent on automation that we forget that garbage in renders garbage out in computers. The real deniers of scientific evidence are happy collecting their government grants all the way to the bank. Look at all of these scientists who are multi millionaires as a result of their pushing of AGW and blaming CO2.
Data does not matter.
Only what is in your heart matters.
I lived through the Global Winter scare. This was preceded by a number of scares in earlier generations.
You have to “heart” Anthropogenic Global Warming. It is a liberal dogma. If you don’t, you are a denier. The data is irrelevant. The data has been manipulated to prove the point, by the way. See Anthony Watts for details (wattsupwiththat.com).
You have to believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy.
We are talking about billions of dollars in grants and government money here. That is a lot of loose change.
The darned ice simply will not go away, either north or south.
The glaciers simply will not disappear.
But none of that matters.
It is all about being “green,” loving Gaia, and all the other hogwash. Remember the Maldives? They are underwater now. Except they aren’t. Remember the sea level rise? It hasn’t. I was down to the ocean last weekend; the sea is now where it was when I was a kid.