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January 12, 2007
Moonbattery Aside, Human Activity Has No Noticeable Effect on Climate
Posted by Dave Blount at January 12, 2007 10:49 AM
Dr. Lee Gerhard of the Kansas Geological Society has done extensive independent research into the global warming phenom, accepting no outside funding for his work. He's put together a PowerPoint presentation on Geologic Constraints on Global Climate Variability that should prove very educational to anyone tempted to drink the Kool-Aid.
Gerhard notes that we have moved beyond the historic dispute between the geocentric and the heliocentric universe to embrace the humanocentric universe, meaning that we believe human activity to be the axis of reality. However:
There is no clear discernible effect of human activities on global temperatures.
Of all greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide represents only 0.28%. There is little or no correlation between carbon dioxide concentration and temperature change. Natural climate drivers such as solar and orbital variations, on the other hand, correlate well with temperature changes.
Since temperature constantly fluctuates,
Choosing whether earth is warming or cooling is simply a matter of picking end points.
If I start my analysis at midnight and end at noon, I see that it's getting hotter. If I start in August and end in January, I see that it's getting colder. This is the sort of simplistic trick global warming hucksters like Al Gore use to lead gullible nitwits around by the nose.
In the short term, the weather will keep getting warmer, as it has been doing for the last 250 years. In the long term, it will keep getting cooler, as it has been doing for the last 60 million years. Recent warming is an effect of the same 1,100-year solar cycle that produced the Roman and Medieval warming periods.
Gerhard asks the fundamental question and answers it:
So, if there were no people, how would climate be different? It wouldn't be different.
Now can we move on to problems that are real?
On a tip from Monsoon.
Update:
Courtesy of Bergbikr, here's a link to an HTML version of Dr. Gerhard's presentation.
