A pair of scientist from Europe has researched the effect of solar activity on global climate cycles. They have concluded that solar activity and cosmic radiation is a much much more important driver of warming and cooling trends on earth than CO2. Here is an excerpt:

"It was long thought that clouds were caused by climate change, but now we see that climate change is driven by clouds. This has not been taken into account in the models used to work out the effect carbon dioxide has had.”

This development was just reported yesterday. I linked to an article a month or so ago describing the same effect. The idea that the interplay of solar and cosmic radiation may be the main driver of global climate change is in direct conflict with the notion that CO2 (and thus humans) are the primary reason the earth is warming.

Pay attention to this development. I predict that the CO2 based global warming canard will continue to unravel over the coming months and years as more peer reviewed studies and renewed attention to good science regains hold and pushes the highly politicized Chicken Littles to the fringes where they belong.

Some Inconvenient Thoughts on Global Warming

Good morning! I am getting ready to travel to St Louis which is shivering under a dome of unusually frigid arctic air. I returned yesterday from NYC. It was almost frozen to a standstill! The pond outside of my home in NC is frozen. We have lived here 17 years and that has only happened 3 or 4 times. So what do all of these examples of cold and freezing prove? Do they prove that global warming isn’t really happening? Of course not. They don’t prove anything of the sort (and of course neither does a hot month or a warm winter or two prove that global warming is happening due to human actions).

Anyway, I need to get ready to catch my plane so please read this essay by George Will. He offers a few choice facts that should make global warming cheerleaders like Senators. Kerry and Boxer squirm a little bit.

I am preparing for a very busy week of travel and won’t have much to offer this week but by all means please take the time to read this article on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is a little nerdy in terms of numbers but the author lays out some fascinating figures about CO2 presence in the atmosphere that I guarantee will make you think. The author, Dr. S. Fred Singer, is an atmospheric physicist at the University of Virginia. He says:

5. To finish with the math, by calculating the product of the adjusted CO2 contribution to greenhouse gases (3.618%) and % of CO2 concentration from anthropogenic (man-made) sources (3.225%), we see that only (0.03618 X 0.03225) or 0.117% of the greenhouse effect is due to atmospheric CO2 from human activity.

Dr. Singer says human generated CO2 is responsible for one tenth of one percent of the overall greenhouse gas affect on earth. Remember, the cornerstone of the Chicken Little global warming crowd is that CO2 is the CAUSE of earths rising temperatures, melting ice caps, soon to be raising sea levels, and gout! (I made up the part about gout but the rest is true). Read the whole article to get Singers conclusion.

My Disclosure Statement: I love the outdoors, clean water, fresh air, and unpolluted wilderness. I know that if left unrestrained, many corporations and governments will knowingly pollute the environment, like has happened in the past, and thus I support laws to protect our environment to keep such abuses from happening again.

I have given money in the past to organizations promoting the establishment and protection of healthy natural environments and wildlife populations. Furthermore, I support any prudent and thoughtful steps that all governments around the world can take to keep our environment clean, verdant, and able to support life.

I also, think that our nation’s unhealthy reliance on fossil fuels is a potential huge Achilles heel and that we must aggressively move away from fossil fuels and towards alternative energy in order to assure our economic vitality and strengthen our national security. I favor an emphasis on this effort similar to the emphasis we embraced in the 60’s on placing a man on the moon.

I also happen to believe that global warming is “very likely” caused by naturally occurring phenomenon and “very likely” not caused by human generated carbon dioxide emissions. Yes, I know, my beliefs are pretty much the complete opposite of the much hyped UN climate report issued on Friday. 

It is vitally important for every voting citizen of America to evaluate the question: Is the earth warming and if so what is causing it? You should look for and rely on facts and not simplistic or agenda driven media hype to form your opinion. The implications for our economic future are absolutely enormous. If you buy into the notion that humans are causing global warming then it won’t be difficult to buy into the fact that humans can reverse whatever we have been doing (burning fossil fuels) to cause it and thus we can fix the problem.

On the other hand if you conclude that the warming of the earth is simply part of a well known and well documented cycle of cooling and warming periods that are much more highly correlated to certain well known solar cycles for instance, then you would probably not support policies that waste time and finite resources attempting to change the earths climate and instead might focus attention and money on figuring out how to better adapt to earths inevitable changing climatic cycles.

This is very important: huge money is at stake and most of it is targeted to come out of your pocket. The political left wing owns this issue and is already attempting to bludgeon the country into supporting its misguided and enormously expensive fixes. This is why I will continue to offer commentary and posts on this subject.