FLASH: Greenhouse Hypothesis Proven Invalid

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Watch 'em squirm.
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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3001

Greenhouse hypothesis is invalid
Global warming hysteria: how the pendulum has swung
Terry Dunleavy Saturday, May 10, 2008

It has become commonplace knowledge, and is unchallenged, that global
average temperature has not increased since 1998. This corresponds to
a 9-year period during which the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide,
in contrast, did increase, and that by almost 5%.

The greenhouse hypothesis - which asserts that carbon dioxide
increases of human origin will cause dangerous global warming - is
clearly invalidated by these data.

As if that were not enough, a leading computer modelling team has
recently published a paper in Nature which acknowledges what climate
rationalists (the so-called “sceptics”) have always asserted. Which is
that, contrary to IPCC assessments, any human influence on global
temperature is so small that it cannot yet be differentiated from
natural cycles of climate change. The same modellers have even
predicted (after the start of the event, of course) that cooling will
now occur for at least the next few years. Mortal strike two against
dangerous, human-caused warming.

At this news, the rare balanced commentaries that hitherto have been
but a trickle through cracks in the monolithic dam of climate alarmism
have coalesced into a steady, fissured flow, and there is an imminent
likelihood of total dam collapse. Interestingly, at the same time, the
fierce discussion about the pros and cons of dangerous human-caused
change that has formerly been conducted almost exclusively on the
internet (including particularly blogs and video outlets like YouTube)
is starting to spread to the more mainstream press.

For instance, critical analyses of global warming science reality and
policy options have recently been provided by two leading articles in
the National Business Review (editorial 1; editorial 2) and others on
Muriel Newman’s Centre for Political Research website and in the NZ
Herald, Christchurch Press, NZ Farmers Weekly and the U.K. Telegraph.

Finally, and most belatedly of all, even radio and TV commentators are
now starting to provide a broader and better balanced perspective on
the global warming issue.

Nzone Tonight is a nightly news and current affairs programme
broadcast by Shine TV, a NZ Christian broadcaster that aims to provide
a balanced and truthful review of all the day’s news suitable for
family viewing. In mid-April, Nzone broadcast a current affairs
discussion about global warming between host Alan Lee and Professor
Bob Carter. Since being posted on YouTube, this video has attracted
15,000 worldwide viewers, and during its first three weeks has become
the most viewed, most discussed and most favorited - and the number
two top rated - New Zealand News and Politics video clip of the month.
Amongst other supportive comments, one US viewer noted that /“I did
enjoy the respectful nature of the interview. I do wish this interview
was shown on every network in this country, and at every school!”/

That these events represent a deep public demand for balanced
presentations of the science of climate change is indicated by another
Bob Carter video clip - this time of a lecture to the Australian
Environment Foundation (AEF) that was posted on YouTube just over 6
months ago. To date this video clip has achieved more than 100,000
viewers and lists as the 14th most discussed Australian News and
Politics item of all time - a remarkable result, and by far the
highest ranking that a fact-based lecture has ever achieved.

Comments made on the AEF video lecture have included:

“That was a superb set of videos. Very well done, and thank you, Bob
Carter. Should be compulsory viewing for everyone who sees Gore’s
movie. Any chance of getting (it) into all British schools?”; and

“Watching Bob Carter’s presentation, which he has articulated in a no
nonsense manner, I am alarmed at how the so-called environmental
movement, supported by sensational journalism, are promoting such an
alarmist position on CO_2 emissions. It is a frightening prospect that
money which could be spent on far more sensible issues may well be
wasted on carbon sequestration, which apparently will have little or
even no effect on climate change”.

For a science lecture to receive comments such as these, and attain
such a large number of viewings, is indicative of a great public
hunger for accurate, well balanced information on the science of the
global warming issue.

Perhaps, at last, the time has arrived when YouTube and blog
discussions will now be supplemented by mainstream newspaper, radio
and TV outlets providing the balanced news and documentary programs
about global warming that have been so lamentably lacking for the last
ten years. Keep your eye on that dam.

Terry Dunleavy, MBE, JP, is the Founding Chairman and Executive
Vice-Chairman of the International Climate Science Coalition – see
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/.

Posted 05/10 at 09:18 AM