Global Warming

We here at GlobalWarmingFactFinder.com are often asked, “what can we do to stop Global Warming?”  Frankly, as we see it, there isn’t anything you can do to stop it, as it appears to be a natural occurance and cycle of the earth that is happening whether we like it or not.  But we do contribute a little bit to the CO2 that is created.   But saddly, there is little we can do about that also as we contribute less than 3% of the overall annual contribution to the atmosphere (see “Global Warming is Causing the Rise in CO2″).  But one thing that will help to scrub carbon dioxide from the air is vegetation and trees.  And we found someone who is helping on that front.

The Walt Disney Company recently announced a grant of $1.5 million to go to the Tree People to plant trees in the mountain areas around the Southern California area.   The grant which is to help reforest fire-ravaged areas around Southern California is being given to the TREE People which is a non profit organization dedicated to healing our cities and urban areas by promoting the planting of trees and educating people on their care and upkeep.  They also strive to educate and inform community leaders on the importance of trees and sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems.  This grant will go towards their Wildfire Restoration Initiative, making Disney their biggest financial supporter.

Southern California has be ravaged by wildfires over the last few years that have wiped out large areas of mature trees and forests in the mountains that surround Southern California.  Trees play a major roll in keeping our air clean by scrubbing CO2 out of the air through the natural process of photosynthesis.  It is nature’s way of dealing with Carbon Dioxide, a gas now being blamed for Global Warming.  By replanting large areas of forests that have been damaged by wildfires, we can do more to offset the rise in Carbon Dioxide than with any man made mechanical or artificial solution.

Initiatives like this make sense because is represents something that we can all participate in by either planting trees or helping in the care and nurturing of trees in the areas where we live.   It should be our mission, as it is for the Tree People, to  inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the results as a model for the world, rather than whine an complain about the changes that occur in our environment.  By taking personal action we can each do something to contribute to overall objective.  It is ultimately up to us to achieve the changes we need to ensure that our world remains a sustainable, renewable resource.

If you truly want to do something about the CO2 in the atmosphere, plant trees, lawns, shrubs and all nature of flora.  Let photosynthesis do the work.

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By:  Greg Henss

Global Warming researcher and primary advisor on Global Warming to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is reluctantly admitting that trying to stop Global Warming is useless and not worth the money or effort. Realizing that the entire notion that Man is creating the entire Global Warming phenomenon is a patently false hypothesis, Professor Ross Garnaut conceded last week that, “… it is cheaper for Australians (and other industrialized nations)to do nothing about global warming”.

Professor Garnaut is one of the primary authorities upon whom the Rudd government has based most of its policy on Global Warming issues. But realizing that Man’s contribution to carbon dioxide as a Greenhouse gas is infinitesimal, Professor Garnaut went on to admit that “…there’s no point spending big money to “stop” this warming when it won’t make a blind bit of difference.”

Currently the Rudd Government is not commenting on the revelations made by Professor Garnaut, perhaps hoping that no journalists will notice or care what Garnaut has just admitted. But as a result of his admissions, much of the argument in favor of the Government’s grand plan to slash emissions by 2010 has just been destroyed.

According to Piers Akerman, writer for The Daily Telegraph, “NO SINGLE issue better illustrates the Rudd Government’s gross incompetence than its blindly ideological approach to the question of climate change.” What is at stake her is billions of dollars that are to be foolishly spent and wasted on trying to reduce our CO2 emissions, when it will make absolutely no difference at all.

We in the United States of course have Al Gore to contend with. And we at the Global Warming Fact Finder have pointed out several inaccuracies and flawed reports in Gore’s farce of a movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”. Environmentalists and liberal alarmists jumped on this movie as the ‘tell all, end all’ to the whole premise of anthropogenic Global Warming claiming that human action is causing the Global Warming phenomenon when in fact it is not so.

The facts show that it is actually temperature rise that is causing the rise in CO2 levels through natural earth processes, not humans. Further, many scientists are saying that we are actually going into a cooling period on earth and have been since 2002. North America, including Alaska, Canada, northern United States and Siberia just recently recorded one of the coldest winters in centuries. Ice returned to the north areas with a vengeance adding an additional 15 to 30 centimeters to the average thickness. And debunking yet another myth, we have shown that human contribution to the overall new production of carbon dioxide is less than 1%. The natural processes of the earth’s soil, oceanic activity and vegetation produces over 99% of the overall annual contribution to CO2 levels into the atmosphere.

It is important that the U.S. Government realizes that to start following a flawed ideological premise promulgated by liberal extremists will be irresponsible and devastating to the American economy. We can only hope the next administration doesn’t fall into trap of wanting to look like it is doing something, at the expense of the American people.

By:  Greg Henss

Yet another liberal claim is being blown up as propaganda. Man is not responsible for Global Warming after all. As it turns out, the natural rise in earth temperature is what is causing the rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere. It is not the other way around the way the doom and gloom liberal alarmists would have you believe.

If you were to watch the Al Gore farce of a movie “An Inconvenient Truth” you might walk away with the idea that we as humans on earth, living in the glow of the great technological luxuries that the creativity of man has provided, are causing Global Warming as a whole. Scientists are now looking at the information becoming available, that carbon dioxide, which it has been claimed is the big culprit, is indeed increasing. But the data is showing … read more …>

By: Greg Henss

The Ski Area at Snowmass, Colorado, has decided that it wants to do its part and try to go “Green”, and reduce Global Warming by installing wind turbines on top of the mountain to generate electricity for the Ski area operations. But as it turns out, it may have an ‘unintended consequence’ as they may be a hazard for bats.

Wind generator turbines are required to have identifying lights on them for aircraft to see at night, when the turbines get up above a certain height. Being that the turbines will be on top of the mountain, and are 200 feet tall, these qualify for navigation lighting. That now makes it a problem for the bats in the area since the lights will likely attract insects which will in turn attract bats. With a concentration of insects, there is likely to be a concentration of bats which could then be ‘batted’ out of the sky by the spinning blades of the turbine.

The Aspen Skiing Company and the Forest Service are considering placing three tall wind turbines atop the ski mountain in a effort to generate electricity and reduce the “carbon footprint” of the ski area operation. Aspen Skiing Company figures that by placing three turbines into their system they can reduce their electrical draw by two-thirds. But in so doing, the blades of the three turbines may become deadly for the bats if navigation lights are required on the turbines.

The Forest Service first became aware of the potential problem during a preliminary study of the potential environmental and visual effects that the towers may create. Such impacts will need to be more fully investigated and studied before the project can move forward. Results of the environmental impact reports will also need to be reviewed by the federal government.

Another hurdle that must be overcome is wind speeds will need to be studied to determine the viability of using wind turbines. In an effort to conduct that study, the Forest Service and Ski Company have decided to place a temporary wind turbine tower to test the wind speed, since a temporary tower does not need approvals and studies because of its ‘temporary’ nature. However, during their effort to hoist the tower into place, the tower fell to the ground as it was being winched up, damaging the tower. They hope to have the tower in place in the next week or so.

Officials are also concerned about possible opposition from people who object to the visual impact of the 200 foot tall towers atop their mountain. But the same officials discounted the potential for opposition stating that, “I think that five years ago you wouldn’t have been able to suggest this project. But I think today people understand the scale of climate change”, according to Jim Stark, winter recreation supervisor for the White River National Forest.

This is one of the consequences that I predicted when I warned how liberals will continue to promote propaganda and false science to further their agenda. The more people hear the flawed arguments, the more they begin to accept them, and allow costly attempts at mitigation of the purported problem. It is a slippery slope we are on as liberals begin to get their agendas accepted with incremental advances. It doesn’t matter how outlandish the claim, if they repeat it enough times, they begin to garner favor.

Don’t get me wrong. I am in favor of doing what we can do that is within reason to limit our use of fossil fuels and reduce our impact on the earth. But each and every attempt at that mitigation comes with a cost. In this case, we may have to loose a few hundred bats and we’ll have to put up with the visual of the towers on top of a picturesque mountain in Colorado. Environmentalists used to complain about electrical transmission towers, poles and lines calling them visual polution. How is a spinning wind turbine not visual pollution?

What is more, if three turbines will eliminate two-thirds of their electrical energy use, why stop there? Why not put in five, or ten towers? Once you have a few unsightly towers up there, people will get used to them and won’t mind a bunch more. I mean you should see our desert around the Palm Springs area in Southern California. There are so many wind mills that you can hardly see the desert any more. It’s just incredible.

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I can’t believe we let Al Gore lecture us on science. I mean after all, what is Al Gore? He’s a Politician, not a scientist. Moreover, he’s is not just a politician, he is a liberal politician - a very liberal politician.

What are liberal politicians interested in? Liberal politicians are only interested in power and taxation. They crave power more than anything. Once in power they attempt to enhance their power by legislating taxes and laws that further restrict your freedoms, tell you how …. read more

Scientists are now saying that Global Warming is going to stop in the near future if not already. What’s more, these seem to be the same scientists that have predicting the doom gloom forecast of melting ice caps and lowland flooding. You know the same ones that Al Gore was citing in his dire forecast of the future.

Studies of long term changes in sea temperatures are indicating that … read more

On May 19, 2008, the National Press Club in Washington released a petition signed by nearly 32,000 noted American scientists who reject the premise that Global Warming and Climate Change are a man made phenomenon. In addition to rejecting the idea that the global increase in temperature is the fault of mankind; they reject the entire Kyoto accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

A letter by Frederick Seitz, Past President, National Academy of Sciences states, “Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that … read more

Reprinted article from The New York Times, July 31, 2008

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal,” and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that … read more

I don’t know about you, but, I don’t know what to believe.  Is Global Warming happening, or is it not?  Is Global Warming good, or is it bad?  Is mankind the cause of it, or is it a naturally cycling occurance?

Like so many things in the news today, we are being bombarded with conflicting information, studies, and opions on everthing from apples to zoology.  Is caffiene good or bad?  Is alcohol good or bad (I exclude wine because that is always good)?  Does Green Tea cure your ills, or does it not?

This blog is designed to cut through some of the conflicting opinions and make sense of opposing research studies that only seem to confuse the issue.   I know what you’re thinking.  That may be impossible and I may have bit off more than I can chew.  But, right now, I feel up to the challenge. 

Part of that challenge begins with creation of a brand new website on Global Warming, and you can access that at www.GlobalWarmingFactFinder.com.  And so it begins.  Tune in frequently and get you the latest research on the Global Warming Issue.  We will strive to keep you informed.