The Roanoke Slant

Roanoke Times, 12/30/08, Pg Va 9: Commentary: A slow approach to warming by Jay Ambrose of Scripps Howard New Service. KUDOs to the RT for publishing this article.
Mr Ambrose expresses doubts about global warming magnitude and cause and effect and what if any government actions are appropriate.
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Why do so many good people doubt Mr Gore’s hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing major increases in atmospheric temperature that he says will very soon cause catastrophic environmental and human damage?
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Mr Gore, as the salesman for the UN’s IPCC group, went so far outside the “truth and reality box” with his presentations and movie that many people now doubt his entire hypothesis. His PR campaign enveloped the concepts of: global warming: man-made CO2 and adverse climate change without any regard for the natural forces that has dominated earth’s environment for millions of years. This structure was designed to give his hypothesis the broadest possible coverage of any weather event anywhere and cloud the facts between regional weather events and fossil fuel use and global changes and natural causes and variations.
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Mr Gore and the IPCC knew that their infamous charts showing CO2 causing major temperature variations occuring hundreds of thousands of years ago are patently false and not accepted earth science theory.
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Many good, reasonable, prudent and intelligent people question that man-man CO2 has caused the warming that has occurred since the end of the “little ice age” in 1750. Mr Gore and the IPCC refuse to explain their time line of current warming starting in 1750. Clearly the first 150 years of major land-based glacier retreat occurred before any significant man-made CO2.
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They question the exaggerated forecasts of huge rises in sea levels due to arctic sea-ice melting because they all have watched ice melt in a grass of soda without overflowing and they know that the north-west-passage has been open before.
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They know that one component for increasing atmospheric CO2 is natural increased global temperature from whatever cause. Even youngsters have watched the CO2 escape from a bottle of chilled soda as it warms up.
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They know that there was a significant global cooling for the 35 years from 1940 through 1975 in spite of the major CO2 releases from WWI, WWII, Korea and accelerated world-wide fossil fuel consumption.
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They know that there has been only one degree warming in the past 100 years and NO global temperature increase during the past 10 years in spite of the increased level of atmospheric CO2.
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They know that the significant global warming that occurred during the medieval period did not result in catastrophic disaster. In fact, it was the following “little ice age” that produced major negative impacts.
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They know that only those who are hiding the truth would mount a campaign to silence the questions about their hypothesis and not participate in meaningful and professional dialogue.
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They know that Mr Jim Hanson, prophet of man-made global warming and paradoxically the keeper of the official government temperature data, has continually published faulty data that were only corrected due to scrutiny by doubting-bloggers.
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And so these skeptics and doubters and deniers continue to ask for the truth and nothing but the truth about the global and regional changes we observe and measure and what part if any man-made actions are contributors. Perhaps that’s what everyone should be seeking including Mr Gore and his associates at the IPCC. The debate about the causes and effects of regional and global changes are clearly not over and the current data does not favor Mr Gore or draconian government actions that will cripple our countries economic systems and infrastructure.
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Click for global warming data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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