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NewsNM - Swickard - Dr. Patrick Michaels spoke on News New Mexico Wednesday making most of these points. I for one was convinced that the effect of man is far less than the global folks are saying. From
Capitol Report New Mexico.com - Climatologist Dr.
Patrick J. Michaels acknowledges global temperatures have increased but maintains that fears about the effects of global warming are vastly overhyped and warns political pressure to make drastic changes to the US and the world economies constitutes an “invasion of our government and our lives.” Michaels, who is a senior fellow of environmental studies at the
Cato Insitute (a libertarian think-tank based in Washington DC), spoke Wednesday night (June 22) in Albuquerque at a lecture sponsored by the Rio Grande Foundation. Among the topics Michaels touched on was the
Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill that passed the US House of Representatives in 2009 but failed in the Senate.
Michaels pointed to a graphic showing three scenarios: the effect on global temperatures if no cap and trade plan goes into effect, global temperatures if the US had instituted Waxman-Markey and global temperautres if all the countries participating in the the
Kyoto Protocol had instituted the terms of Waxman-Markey. Here’s the chart Michaels says shows that if nothing is done, global temperatures rise by 1.58 degrees; that if the US implements the terms of Waxman-Markey the temperatures rise by 1.54 degrees and if all the Kyoto countries adopt the terms of Waxman-Markey temperatures rise 1.50 degrees
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Climatologist: Cap and trade does not make any real difference in fight against global warming
Michaels pointed to a graphic showing three scenarios: the effect on global temperatures if no cap and trade plan goes into effect, global temperatures if the US had instituted Waxman-Markey and global temperautres if all the countries participating in the the Kyoto Protocol had instituted the terms of Waxman-Markey. Here’s the chart Michaels says shows that if nothing is done, global temperatures rise by 1.58 degrees; that if the US implements the terms of Waxman-Markey the temperatures rise by 1.54 degrees and if all the Kyoto countries adopt the terms of Waxman-Markey temperatures rise 1.50 degrees Read more
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All models are wrong. Some models are useful. No cliamte model can be accurate to the real world because no climate model can account for ALL the interactions that necessarily should be included.
For one thing, no of these folks seem to have looked at the release of CO2 from oceans when the water warms. In fact, simple calculations of a 0.1 C change in the top 10 m indicates a release of CO2 equivalent to the change claimed by GW alarmists. How does that work? Have you ever noticed how a cold soda maintains its carbonation but a warm soda goes flat? That's it. Not only is there a concentration equilibrium but there are also water temperature effects that must be accounted for. CO2 is less soluble in warmer water as compared to colder water. AND the dissovled C in the oceans is on the order of 50X that of the atmosphere.
The global warming ruse, now aka "climate change", was designed, at a minimum, to wrangle more money out of government for more ambiguous research. The ideal results of the ruse would be to create a world tax that could be collected in the name of "saving the planet". It is perhaps the greatest public scam in the civilized world since monarchy's declared the world to be flat. The alleged evidence and research is at best speculative and ridden with more holes than a piece of scientifically produced Swiss cheese.
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