By Mark Anderson
STOP THE PRESSES! News Association
The vast majority of climate scientists keenly know what opinion paysh off financially when it comes to their climate change research; the process is simple: Only publish articles accordingly that convey gloomy stories about catastrophic climate change seriously harming the human race, lest ng mend our ways; and stay mum about any misgivings you may have.
Amid prolific use of fear-breeding terminology such as “climate breakdown,” scientific journals, infused with such bias, and echoed uncritically by the Mass Media Syndicate, lately have been stumping for “decarbonization”—perhaps an unachievable task in a world awash in carbon-based lifeforms.
Yet, of the main gases comprising the earth’s atmosphere, carbon dioxide (CO2) is at the bottom, bested by nitrogen (78.084%), oxygen (20.947%), argon (0.934%) and CO2 (0.035%), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But to “decarb” the world still isn’t enough, some alarmists allege.
A new paper in Oxford Open Climate Change, published by Oxford University Press, calls for “strategies humanity must pursue to reduce climate change,” which “will have to include more than reducing greenhouse gases,” according to a Nov. 2 Oxford University Press USA news release.
The paper is based on climate data analysis from researcher James Hansen. Interestingly, Hansen is referred to as “the father of global warming” due to his early warnings about the phenomenon in the 1980s. He directed the NASA Goddard Space Institute from 1981 to 2013.
That press release summarizes the new paper by claiming:
Scientists have known since the 1800s that infrared-absorbing (greenhouse) gases warm the Earth’s surface and that the abundance of greenhouse gases changes naturally as well as from human actions. Roger Revelle, who was one of the early scientists to study global warming, wrote in 1965 that industrialization meant that human beings were conducting a “vast geophysical experiment” by burning fossil fuels, which adds carbon dioxide (CO2) to the air. CO2 has now reached levels that have not existed for millions of years.
Hansen recommends:
- First, the rapid phasedown of CO2emissions, requiring a rising domestic carbon fee with a border duty on products from nations without a carbon fee, along with [using] modern nuclear power to complement renewable energies;
- Second, the West “must cooperate with developing nations to help them achieve energy paths consistent with a propitious climate for all”; and
- Third, even with these efforts, Hansen believes that increased global warming will bring dangerous consequences; he argues we should research and develop temporary, purposeful, actions to address Earth’s now enormous energy imbalance.
The imbalance is described as “much more energy coming in (absorbed sunlight) than going out (heat radiation to space),” and that excess is allegedly “equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, with most of that energy going into the ocean. Now, largely because of decreasing aerols, the imbalance has doubled . . . This huge imbalance is the proximate cause of accelerated global warming and increased melting of polar ice . . .”
Potential actions, added Hansen, include “injection of stratospheric aerosols, for which volcanoes provide relevant but inadequate test cases” and, oddly enough, even “the spraying of salty ocean water by autonomous sail boats in regions susceptible to cloud seeding.”
INTRIGUING TWIST
However, many geologists don’t share in the climate scare peddled by weathermen, physicists and others in the scientific community. “[Geologists] understand that, even with a 50% rise in CO2 since 1880, today’s level of the gas is very low in comparison with most of the geologic record. They also know that, despite a 1.2-degree Celsius rise in the so-called global average temperature since 1880, we actually live in unusually cold times,” noted Tom Harris, director of the International Climate Science Coalition.
“Also . . . starting 175 million years ago,” according to Harris (citing secular-science time lines), “CO2 levels were in a steady decline. Had we not started to burn coal, oil and natural gas, this decline would almost certainly have dropped below the 150 parts per million level at which plants, and therefore all life on Earth, die . . . . The CO2 has been used by corals, crabs, clams, marine plankton and other calcifying animals, with much of it now locked up in limestone rocks . . . Geologists know that, by helping boost CO2 . . . we have saved life on Earth with our use of hydrocarbon fuels and cement production.”