 DuBois Business College gave me a warm welcome when I stopped in. Oil City, PA. Uploaded on August 12, 2009 by pegluksik, All rights reserved | In the 1950’s, the icon of the American police detective was Sergeant Joe Friday. He never got lost in emotional outbursts, but calmly reminded every witness he interviewed to give “just the facts” so he could accurately resolve each case he was investigating. We need Sergeant Friday to be on the case today, insisting that those intent on remaking American society to avert the crisis of global warming stop their emotional outbursts and stick to the facts. Let’s start with the facts about carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a natural, and necessary, part of our atmosphere. We breathe in oxygen, and breathe out carbon dioxide. |
If we follow the facts, we find that abundant carbon dioxide levels stimulate plant growth. In 279 published experiments, plants, such as wheat, which were fertilized with carbon dioxide showed enhanced growth rates even though the water levels or soil contents were less than ideal. So carbon dioxide is actually proving itself to be an effective fertilization tool that would help the growth of plants over larger geographic areas, increasing the food supply across the world.
The same effect is found in forest growth. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service reports that inventories of American hardwood and softwood timber have grown by 40%, and are increasing by 1% per year. This increase has led to a corresponding increase in the animal population that feeds on plants.
Carbon dioxide does not cause global warming. If it did, Mars would be a furnace because 95% of the atmosphere of Mars is carbon dioxide. But Mars is not a furnace, it is an ice cube. It is impossible for carbon dioxide to simultaneously warm the Earth and cool Mars.
The facts show that there is no correlation between temperature and levels of carbon dioxide. There is a correlation between solar activity, such as sun spots, and temperature change. That is why the temperatures of Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Neptune’s moon Triton , and Pluto are rising at about the same rate as those on Earth.
The lack of connection between man-made carbon dioxide levels and temperature is not hard to establish. The Sargasso Sea is a 2 million square mile region of the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists have measured, with isotopes, the marine organism remains at the bottom to find the average temperatures of the earth going back 3,000 years. This is actual data, not a computer model.
They found that the average temperature on Earth has remained within a range of 3 degrees Celsius over 3,000 years. The warmest times occurred around 1,000 B.C., 500 B.C. and 1,000 A.D. This latest period is known as the Medieval Climate Optimum, when records show that farming occurred in Greenland and grapes grew in England. The period ended at about 1300 A.D., and temperatures have not reached that level of warming since.
The twentieth century is right in the middle of that 3 degree temperature range, making it exactly average in temperature levels.
If man-made carbon dioxide were causing, or even connected to, rising temperatures, the twentieth century would be the warmest. But it’s not even close.
As Joe Friday would say, let’s, “Stick to the facts, just the facts”, and leave the emotional outbursts behind.
TEXT CREDIT: Peg Luksik for Senate, Tel: 814-532-5603. Email: Peg@PegLuksik.com, Media Inquiries: Steve Clark 814.944.5995
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