Alan Caruba
March 18, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2277
Global warming gives way to climate change
Like a mirage in the desert, climate change-the term that has replaced
global warming-looks real, but disappears in shimmering rays when
approached.
Of course there's climate change. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Its history is about climate change. Such changes occur over centuries.
They are not the stuff of the myths about "global warming" with tales of
glaciers melting, oceans rising, and other melodramatic events that are
not happening now and not likely to happen.
Most certainly, global warming does not cause the onset of an Ice Age as
one recent Hollywood film depicted. That requires a suspension of logic
that only the extremely stupid can achieve.
The Earth has warmed about one degree Fahrenheit since the last mini-ice
age ended in 1850. That's a natural warming. There is nothing dramatic
about it, nor is it the result of human activity. The forces that drive
weather are far too vast and powerful, and we see this demonstrated all
the time.
Why then has my local utility advertised, asking the question, "What is
Driving Up Electricity Prices?" and answering the question by saying
that the nation needs to pay greater attention to "combating climate
change" by reducing "emissions from power plants"?
Simple, known science tells us that carbon dioxide, the most famous of
the "greenhouse gases", represents barely 0.038 percent of the
atmosphere. It doesn't cause change and scientists have demonstrated
that any changes in the amount of CO2 come well after major climate
change events such as ice ages.
What drives up the cost of electricity is the failure to use the
centuries' worth of abundant coal that exists in the United States, some
of which is off limits thanks to former President Clinton declaring its
location in Utah to be a national historical site.
What drives up the cost of electricity is the refusal to allow liquid
natural gas storage facilities to built in order to have access to this
other source of power generation. Famously, the resistance to the
building of nuclear generation facilities is also causing prices to
rise.
The utility's advertisement does make one thing clear, stating that,
"the cost of producing electricity has gone up dramatically." For that
you can thank environmental organizations like Friends of the Earth and
others who continue to do everything they can to thwart the building of
new power facilities or access to the oil and gas reserves that exist in
the U.S.
This is not a problem about climate change. This is a supply and demand
problem. This is about requiring utilities to spend billions to lower
emissions that, in fact, have no impact whatever on climate.
Worse, not only have utilities bought into the global warming/climate
change myths, the media continues to repeat all the scientifically
discredited claims.
There's the truth and there's the billions that will be sucked out of
the pockets of American consumers by utilities using the climate change
mirage to hide the fact that ample natural gas and coal exists to
produce electricity or that nuclear is clearly the way to go in the
future.
No matter what the advertisements and corporate statements say, climate
change is something that occurs over centuries and is something over
which no nation, nor all the nations of the world, has any control.
History has taught us this over and over again.
As for global warming, we are emerging out of a record-breaking and
record-setting cold winter that hit, not only the northern hemisphere,
but reached down into South America and South Africa.
So, who do you believe? The utilities? The environmentalists? The
government? Or the simple evidence of recent massive blizzards, rapidly
growing glaciers, increased polar ice shelves, and snow where snow has
not fallen in a very long time?
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Attributing global climate change to human CO2 production is akin to
trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine
(analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water
vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel,
which would be analogous to total CO2, but on one thread on that nut,
which represents the human contribution." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of
the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor
Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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