Saturday, March 28, 2009

Man Does Not Warm The Earth

Below is my response to an article from green.foxnews.com that was originally written by t he London Times. Click Here to see the article.

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I recently read that Scientists who don’t put up outrageous claims rarely receive much grant money, because apparently real science isn’t exciting enough.

Dr. Craig Loehle is a real scientist who completely recreated the climate record for the past 2,000 years, just after he discovered (or remembered from third grade) that there are many other things that effect the annual growth of trees (like rain, floods, direct sunlight, and living next to a bigger tree). It was warmer around 900 A.D. than it is today. That’s a proven fact.

On another note, why are warmer global temperatures even a problem? Crops grow better. People tan better. There’s less snow, and sometimes more rain (again, great for those crops AND good for preventing droughts).

One could argue that warmer global temperatures will reduce the amount of CO and CO2 in the atmosphere because all of the trees grow better and more trees will grow, thereby increasing Earth’s ability to remove CO2 from the air.

This is one of Mark Levinn’s favorite questions to ask whining greenie weenies: What’s the number one greenhouse gas?

Water Vapor.

Thanks for listening.

Dr. Loehle: http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/02/11/a-2000-year-global-temperature-record/

Water Vapor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions