Climate Change is Natural: 100 Reasons Why
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Climate change campaigners: 100 reasons why climate change is natural and
not man-made
Tuesday December 15,2009
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HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European
Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:
1) There is �no real scientific proof� that the current warming is caused by
the rise of greenhouse gases from man�s activity.
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2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute
less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of
the earth during geological history.
3) Warmer periods of the Earth�s history came around 800 years before rises
in CO2 levels.
4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but
global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
5) Throughout the Earth�s history, temperatures have often been warmer than
now and CO2 levels have often been higher � more than ten times as high.
6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout
geologic time.
7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred
years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural
climate trends.
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8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers
not the 4,000 usually cited.
9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists � in a scandal known as
�Climate-gate� - suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global
warming
10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible
for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.
11) Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of
global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the
last ice age 10,000 ago
12) Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of
Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too
complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds
13) Peter Lilley MP said last month that �fewer people in Britain than in
any other country believe in the importance of global warming. That is
despite the fact that our Government and our political
class�predominantly�are more committed to it than their counterparts in any
other country in the world�.
14) In pursuit of the global warming rhetoric, wind farms will do very
little to nothing to reduce CO2 emissions
15) Professor Plimer, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the
University of Adelaide, stated that the idea of taking a single trace gas in
the atmosphere, accusing it and finding it guilty of total responsibility
for climate change, is an �absurdity�
16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said
he is �embarrassed and puzzled� by the shallow science in papers that
support the proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by
global warming.
17) The science of what determines the earth�s temperature is in fact far
from settled or understood.
18) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse
gas, unlike water vapour which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can�t
even pretend to control
19) A petition by scientists trying to tell the world that the political and
media portrayal of global warming is false was put forward in the Heidelberg
Appeal in 1992. Today, more than 4,000 signatories, including 72 Nobel Prize
winners, from 106 countries have signed it.
20) It is claimed the average global temperature increased at a dangerously
fast rate in the 20th century but the recent rate of average global
temperature rise has been between 1 and 2 degrees C per century - within
natural rates
21) Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the
Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, Poland says the
earth�s temperature has more to do with cloud cover and water vapor than CO2
concentration in the atmosphere.
22) There is strong evidence from solar studies which suggests that the
Earth�s current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over
the next few decades
23) It is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as
glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for many centuries
24) It is a falsehood that the earth�s poles are warming because that is
natural variation and while the western Arctic may be getting somewhat
warmer we also see that the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder
25) The IPCC claims climate driven �impacts on biodiversity are significant
and of key relevance� but those claims are simply not supported by
scientific research
26) The IPCC threat of climate change to the world�s species does not make
sense as wild species are at least one million years old, which means they
have all been through hundreds of climate cycles
27) Research goes strongly against claims that CO2-induced global warming
would cause catastrophic disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice
Sheets.
28) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels are our
best hope of raising crop yields to feed an ever-growing population
29) The biggest climate change ever experienced on earth took place around
700 million years ago
30) The slight increase in temperature which has been observed since 1900 is
entirely consistent with well-established, long-term natural climate cycles
31) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels of some
so-called �greenhouse gases� may be contributing to higher oxygen levels and
global cooling, not warming
32) Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the
last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term
rate of increase in global temperatures
33) Today�s CO2 concentration of around 385 ppm is very low compared to most
of the earth�s history � we actually live in a carbon-deficient atmosphere
34) It is a myth that CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas because
greenhouse gases form about 3% of the atmosphere by volume, and CO2
constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere
35) It is a myth that computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause
significant global warming because computer models can be made to �verify�
anything
36) There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that global
warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes
37) One statement deleted from a UN report in 1996 stated that �none of the
studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the
observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases�
38) The world �warmed� by 0.07 +/- 0.07 degrees C from 1999 to 2008, not the
0.20 degrees C expected by the IPCC
39) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says �it is likely that
future tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense�
but there has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical
cyclones globally
40) Rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be shown not only to have a
negligible effect on the Earth�s many ecosystems, but in some cases to be a
positive help to many organisms
41) Researchers who compare and contrast climate change impact on
civilizations found warm periods are beneficial to mankind and cold periods
harmful
42) The Met Office asserts we are in the hottest decade since records began
but this is precisely what the world should expect if the climate is
cyclical
43) Rising CO2 levels increase plant growth and make plants more resistant
to drought and pests
44) The historical increase in the air�s CO2 content has improved human
nutrition by raising crop yields during the past 150 years
45) The increase of the air�s CO2 content has probably helped lengthen human
lifespans since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
46) The IPCC alleges that �climate change currently contributes to the
global burden of disease and premature deaths� but the evidence shows that
higher temperatures and rising CO2 levels has helped global populations
47) In May of 2004, the Russian Academy of Sciences published a report
concluding that the Kyoto Protocol has no scientific grounding at all.
48) The �Climate-gate� scandal pointed to a expensive public campaign of
disinformation and the denigration of scientists who opposed the belief that
CO2 emissions were causing climate change
49) The head of Britain�s climate change watchdog has predicted households
will need to spend up to �15,000 on a full energy efficiency makeover if the
Government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions.
50) Wind power is unlikely to be the answer to our energy needs. The wind
power industry argues that there are �no direct subsidies� but it involves a
total subsidy of as much as �60 per MWh which falls directly on electricity
consumers. This burden will grow in line with attempts to achieve Wind power
targets, according to a recent OFGEM report.
51) Wind farms are not an efficient way to produce energy. The British Wind
Energy Association (BWEA) accepts a figure of 75 per cent back-up power is
required.
52) Global temperatures are below the low end of IPCC predictions not at �at
the top end of IPCC estimates�
53) Climate alarmists have raised the concern over acidification of the
oceans but Tom Segalstad from Oslo University in Norway , and others, have
noted that the composition of ocean water � including CO2, calcium, and
water � can act as a buffering agent in the acidification of the oceans.
54) The UN�s IPCC computer models of human-caused global warming predict the
emergence of a �hotspot� in the upper troposphere over the tropics. Former
researcher in the Australian Department of Climate Change, David Evans, said
there is no evidence of such a hotspot
55) The argument that climate change is a of result of global warming caused
by human activity is the argument of flat Earthers.
56) The manner in which US President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress to
order emission cuts shows how undemocratic and irrational the entire
international decision-making process has become with regards to
emission-target setting.
57) William Kininmonth, a former head of the National Climate Centre and a
consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation, wrote �the likely
extent of global temperature rise from a doubling of CO2 is less than 1C.
Such warming is well within the envelope of variation experienced during the
past 10,000 years and insignificant in the context of glacial cycles during
the past million years, when Earth has been predominantly very cold and
covered by extensive ice sheets.�
58) Canada has shown the world targets derived from the existing Kyoto
commitments were always unrealistic and did not work for the country.
59) In the lead up to the Copenhagen summit, David Davis MP said of previous
climate summits, at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Kyoto in 1997 that many had
promised greater cuts, but �neither happened�, but we are continuing along
the same lines.
60) The UK �s environmental policy has a long-term price tag of about �55
billion, before taking into account the impact on its economic growth.
61) The UN�s panel on climate change warned that Himalayan glaciers could
melt to a fifth of current levels by 2035. J. Graham Cogley a professor at
Ontario Trent University, claims this inaccurate stating the UN authors got
the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.
62) Under existing Kyoto obligations the EU has attempted to claim success,
while actually increasing emissions by 13 per cent, according to Lord
Lawson. In addition the EU has pursued this scheme by purchasing �offsets�
from countries such as China paying them billions of dollars to destroy
atmospheric pollutants, such as CFC-23, which were manufactured purely in
order to be destroyed.
63) It is claimed that the average global temperature was relatively
unchanging in pre-industrial times but sky-rocketed since 1900, and will
increase by several degrees more over the next 100 years according to Penn
State University researcher Michael Mann. There is no convincing empirical
evidence that past climate was unchanging, nor that 20th century changes in
average global temperature were unusual or unnatural.
64) Michael Mann of Penn State University has actually shown that the
Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age did in fact exist, which
contrasts with his earlier work which produced the �hockey stick graph�
which showed a constant temperature over the past thousand years or so
followed by a recent dramatic upturn.
65) The globe�s current approach to climate change in which major
industrialised countries agree to nonsensical targets for their CO2
emissions by a given date, as it has been under the Kyoto system, is very
expensive.
66) The �Climate-gate� scandal revealed that a scientific team had emailed
one another about using a �trick� for the sake of concealing a �decline� in
temperatures when looking at the history of the Earth�s temperature.
67) Global temperatures have not risen in any statistically-significant
sense for 15 years and have actually been falling for nine years. The
�Climate-gate� scandal revealed a scientific team had expressed dismay at
the fact global warming was contrary to their predictions and admitted their
inability to explain it was �a travesty�.
68) The IPCC predicts that a warmer planet will lead to more extreme
weather, including drought, flooding, storms, snow, and wildfires. But over
the last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more
rapid warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not
experience significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather
events.
69) In explaining the average temperature standstill we are currently
experiencing, the Met Office Hadley Centre ran a series of computer climate
predictions and found in many of the computer runs there were decade-long
standstills but none for 15 years � so it expects global warming to resume
swiftly.
70) Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, wrote: �The notion of a static, unchanging climate
is foreign to the history of the Earth or any other planet with a fluid
envelope. Such hysteria (over global warming) simply represents the
scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the
public to the substitution of repetition for truth.�
71) Despite the 1997 Kyoto Protocol�s status as the flagship of the fight
against climate change it has been a failure.
72) The first phase of the EU�s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which ran
from 2005 to 2007 was a failure. Huge over-allocation of permits to pollute
led to a collapse in the price of carbon from �33 to just �0.20 per tonne
meaning the system did not reduce emissions at all.
73) The EU trading scheme, to manage carbon emissions has completely failed
and actually allows European businesses to duck out of making their
emissions reductions at home by offsetting, which means paying for cuts to
be made overseas instead.
74) To date �cap and trade� carbon markets have done almost nothing to
reduce emissions.
75) In the United States , the cap-and-trade is an approach designed to
control carbon emissions and will impose huge costs upon American citizens
via a carbon tax on all goods and services produced in the United States.
The average family of four can expect to pay an additional $1700, or �1,043,
more each year. It is predicted that the United States will lose more than 2
million jobs as the result of cap-and-trade schemes.
76) Dr Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville, has indicated that out of the 21 climate models
tracked by the IPCC the differences in warming exhibited by those models is
mostly the result of different strengths of positive cloud feedback � and
that increasing CO2 is insufficient to explain global-average warming in the
last 50 to 100 years.
77) Why should politicians devote our scarce resources in a globally
competitive world to a false and ill-defined problem, while ignoring the
real problems the entire planet faces, such as: poverty, hunger, disease or
terrorism.
78) A proper analysis of ice core records from the past 650,000 years
demonstrates that temperature increases have come before, and not resulted
from, increases in CO2 by hundreds of years.
79) Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in
actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to
control the sun).
80) A substantial number of the panel of 2,500 climate scientists on the
United Nation�s International Panel on Climate Change, which created a
statement on scientific unanimity on climate change and man-made global
warming, were found to have serious concerns.
81) The UK�s Met Office has been forced this year to re-examine 160 years of
temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on
man-made global warming has been shattered by revelations about the data.
82) Politicians and activists push for renewable energy sources such as
wind turbines under the rhetoric of climate change, but it is essentially
about money � under the system of Renewable Obligations. Much of the money
is paid for by consumers in electricity bills. It amounts to �1 billion a
year.
83) The �Climate-gate� scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered
with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors.
84) The �Climate-gate� scandal revealed that a scientific team had
campaigned for the removal of a learned journal�s editor, solely because he
did not share their willingness to debase science for political purposes.
85) Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before
concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little
evidence for insisting that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause
of past temperature and climate change.
86) There are no experimentally verified processes explaining how CO2
concentrations can fall in a few centuries without falling temperatures � in
fact it is changing temperatures which cause changes in CO2 concentrations,
which is consistent with experiments that show CO2 is the atmospheric gas
most readily absorbed by water.
87) The Government�s Renewable Energy Strategy contains a massive increase
in electricity generation by wind power costing around �4 billion a year
over the next twenty years. The benefits will be only �4 to �5 billion
overall (not per annum). So costs will outnumber benefits by a range of
between eleven and seventeen times.
88) Whilst CO2 levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and
otherwise, just as they have throughout history, the CO2 content of the
atmosphere has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution,
and the growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years.
89) It is a myth that CO2 is a pollutant, because nitrogen forms 80% of our
atmosphere and human beings could not live in 100% nitrogen either: CO2 is
no more a pollutant than nitrogen is and CO2 is essential to life.
90) Politicians and climate activists make claims to rising sea levels but
certain members in the IPCC chose an area to measure in Hong Kong that is
subsiding. They used the record reading of 2.3 mm per year rise of sea
level.
91) The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming
has occurred since 1998.
92) If one factors in non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and
large volcanic eruptions, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature
measurements show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over
which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).
93) US President Barack Obama pledged to cut emissions by 2050 to equal
those of 1910 when there were 92 million Americans. In 2050, there will be
420 million Americans, so Obama�s promise means that emissions per head will
be approximately what they were in 1875. It simply will not happen.
94) The European Union has already agreed to cut emissions by 20 percent to
2020, compared with 1990 levels, and is willing to increase the target to 30
percent. However, these are unachievable and the EU has already massively
failed with its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), as EU emissions actually
rose by 0.8 percent from 2005 to 2006 and are known to be well above the
Kyoto goal.
95) Australia has stated it wants to slash greenhouse emissions by up to 25
percent below 2000 levels by 2020, but the pledges were so unpopular that
the country�s Senate has voted against the carbon trading Bill, and the
Opposition�s Party leader has now been ousted by a climate change sceptic.
96) Canada plans to reduce emissions by 20 percent compared with 2006 levels
by 2020, representing approximately a 3 percent cut from 1990 levels but it
simultaneously defends its Alberta tar sands emissions and its record as one
of the world�s highest per-capita emissions setters.
97) India plans to reduce the ratio of emissions to production by 20-25
percent compared with 2005 levels by 2020, but all Government officials
insist that since India has to grow for its development and poverty
alleviation, it has to emit, because the economy is driven by carbon.
98) The Leipzig Declaration in 1996, was signed by 110 scientists who said:
�We � along with many of our fellow citizens � are apprehensive about the
climate treaty conference scheduled for Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997� and
�based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the
politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and
calls for hasty actions.�
99) A US Oregon Petition Project stated �We urge the United States
government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto,
Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed
limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of
science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There
is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of CO2, methane, or
other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause
catastrophic heating of the Earth�s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth�s
climate.�
100) A report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
concluded �We find no support for the IPCC�s claim that climate observations
during the twentieth century are either unprecedented or provide evidence of
an anthropogenic effect on climate.�
