Global Warming Fact Finder

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.

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 to run your life, and try to totally control your life through government. The more they control your life through government and taxation, the more power they derive in the process.

I remember years ago, after reading a book that I fell for hook line and sinker, talking to an elder, wiser friend of mine who asked me a question that made me think. He asked, “If you were writing a book that you want to seem believable, wouldn’t you put forth the most compelling arguments you could find to get the largest number of people to buy the book?” He further went on to say that, “Even if your claims may seem outlandish, sometimes the more outlandish they are, the more compelling they are, the more people will buy the book, the more money you will make”.

This follows another axiom I have come to embrace and that is that when you want to find the underlying motivation for anything, ‘Follow The Money’. In other words, who stands to make money from this and How?

Which brings us back to Al Bore and his Inconvenient Farce? To begin with how did he get the researchers and scientists to corroborate his claims? They received money for their time. Further, if their claims become more popular to the point that legislation is created to research the claims, they stand to get more money in the form of grants and research money. Millions of dollars are being doled out from the government coffers to research this whole issue of supposed anthropogenic climate change. And if you are a scientist or researcher on the other side of the of the issue and in disagreement with the idea that man is the evil cause of rising temperatures, how much of that money do you think you will get?

So it pays to be on the right side (or in this case “left side”) of the global warming issue. The more you claim you have evidence proves man made climate change, the more money you stand to get from the government to do further research and propagate your ideas.

About the only facts that were even close to the truth in Al Gore propaganda movie were that we have experienced a slight upturn in global temperature since the 1970’s. Prior to that, temperatures had been going down for 30 years. We have only recently gotten back to the temperatures of the 1940’s. See Whatever Happened to Global Cooling of the 70s.  Also, polar ice caps and glacial ice do seem to be retreating. But this is something that has been going on for years before man could have an influence. In fact when you look at a graph of earth temperatures from the 1800’s and compare it to a graph from more modern times, they look nearly identical. This has happened before. See Climate Skeptic.com.

Evidence that was and is readily available, but ignored by the science authorities presented in Al Gore’s movie shows that carbon dioxide is a result of temperature rise that occurs naturally, it is not the cause. It is the rise in temperature that causes the earth to create more carbon dioxide on its own. And as far as man’s contribution to the carbon dioxide goes, it represents less than 1% of the carbon dioxide created each year by earth processes. Carbon Dioxide is actually a good thing. It is a requirement for life to exist on earth. It promotes plant growth, helps farmers realize greater yields in their crops and causes forests to grow faster.

Further, the more recent evidence and research is indicating that Global Warming is currently reversing. Scientists are now saying that they are expecting a period of global cooling. In fact, we have be experiencing cooler temperature on earth since 2002. You can read more on this in our article Is Global Warming Over?

Perhaps what is most important here is that one needs to be very careful before blindly adopting a popular point of view on a concept that is not proven, just because a semi popular politician has a movie that captured a wide audience. Also keep in mind that Al Gore has made millions of dollars from his movie and subsequent Nobel Prize.

This is a man who is one the worst offenders to whole living “Green” concept. His personal electricity usage is one of the highest in his state for a residential property. His home uses more electricity that about 25 normal residences. Further, when he travels, he does so on a Private Jet. Just one trip on this jet that took him across country, spewed as much carbon dioxide (the element now being claimed to be the worst “greenhouse gas”) and ozone pollutants, as average automobile does in one year.

This is a man who in no way practices what he preaches. He spews the talk, but certainly does not ‘walk the walk’. It’s too inconvenient for him so he leaves that for the ‘commons’ like you and me.

If you want to believe that we can reduce the effect of Global Warming by driving smaller cars, driving less, living in a smaller home, using less toilet paper, using no toilet paper, and buying local foods, then by all means, you should do it. I, in many ways, try to do my part by recycling, reusing as much as I can and trying to reduce my electricity use in logical ways. But I refuse to spend more money to do it. Why should I listen to the “Hollywood Elite” (of which Al Gore is now a card carrying member”) who travel the world in limousines and private jets, producing more greenhouse gases then I ever will, who are preaching the evils of living a modern, technologically enhanced life? Why should I listen to politicians who live in huge, energy inefficient homes, fly in private jets, drive in motorcades and in general produce a “carbon footprint” 1000 times larger than mine ever will be? I mean, compare a motorcade to your normal commute to work.

In the immortal words of “The Outlaw Josie Wales”, “Don’t piss down my neck and tell me it’s raining”. Global Warming is a natural earth cycle that will continue long after we are gone. It is ultimately up to us to “Adapt Or Die”. What have they called that in the past? Oh yeah - “Evolution”.

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

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.