The Historyscoper's Climate Watch: Should a climate scientist who suspects that global warming is not happening be allowed to continue to do research?

Monday, March 4, 2019

Should a climate scientist who suspects that global warming is not happening be allowed to continue to do research?

https://www.quora.com/Should-a-climate-scientist-who-suspects-that-global-warming-is-not-happening-be-allowed-to-continue-to-do-research

My reply:

This is a loaded question, because everybody knows that any scientist who is skeptical of the official explanation of global warming is not only denied research funds but driven out of their academic positions and reduced to publishing their research on their own blogs and the few independent scientific sites, which the pro-AGW scientists snub, ostracize, and suppress. So the issue is not open for debate like this question pretends, even though the straight answer would be yes if the words “to continue” were omitted. The climate change industry is ballooning into a multi-billion-dollar industry, meaning that those who have their noses in the pig trough have no reason to rock the boat, and corruption is inescapable.

Scientist Confesses: "Global Warming a $22 Billion Scam" (https://www.newsmax.com/Finance/MKTNews/Global-Warming-climate-change/2014/11/17/id/607827/)

Climate Change: The Hoax That Costs Us $4 Billion a Day (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/08/08/climate-change-the-hoax-that-costs-us-4-billion-a-day/)

Too bad, the truth still means something to some scientists, and a few brave scientists work outside the pig trough, regularly coming up with evidence of data tampering and fraud by mainline govt. orgs. such as NOAA and NASA despite the ease with which they could get pig trough jobs and join the herd. One prominent and prolific climate skeptic is geologist Tony Heller of Colo.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZGgaZaXig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0l3tymEagc

Many other climate skeptics are retired scientists with stellar records, but there is everything in a spectrum down to serious amateurs. They have been regularly criticizing trough scientists and their papers, finding plenty of things to criticize, and generally creating a suspicion of a conspiracy by the trough scientists to reinforce each others’ conclusions to keep the funding coming in along with little if any evidence of a robust spectrum of views and support for independent thought. In short, more like an official established religion than science, like in the days of the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. Big Oil is now funding the pro-
AGW scientists because they found that there’s trillions to make from alternative energy.

https://principia-scientific.org/big-oil-fuels-the-climate-campaign/ (https://principia-scientific.org/big-oil-fuels-the-climate-campaign/)

I personally know from fundamental physics that CO2 has been framed as capable of controlling Earth’s surface temperatures, and that the gigantic edifice of papers built on the CO2 greenhouse warming hoax are a house of cards that will not stand the test of time.

TLW's Two Cents Worth on Climate Change (http://www.historyscoper.com/climatetlw.html)

Want to see the big picture, not just one side? Here’s my free list of blogs being published on all sides of the issue, showing the robust debate on the Internet by the independents, and the yes-man culture on the trough sites.

TLW's Climate Blog List (http://www.historyscoper.com/climateblogs.html)

After the announcement of the Green New Deal and its bald Marxist globalist demands for Western capitalism to dismantle itself in favor of a Marxist utopia that’s certain to become a nightmare New Dark Ages, it all reminds me of Pres. George Washington’s observation: "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."And Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s observation:
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific/technological elite."

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What Is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project?

It's too bad the current brouhaha about CO2 is so narrowly focused. So what if a higher concentration in the atmosphere raises global average temps? If higher temps were accompanied by increased atmospheric moisture, it would even out around the world and turn it into a paradise planet, greening the deserts so that the teeming billions could be fed. Cold temperatures are inimical to life, not a goal of life.

Too bad, it might take a lot more CO2 than you think to really change the global weather, but not because it has any control over Earth's surface temperatures. In fact atmospheric CO2 can't melt an ice cube with its 15 micron main radiation wavelength that has a Planck radiation temperature of -80C, colder than dry ice (-78.5C).

Why do they call CO2 greenhouse gas? Because plants breathe it, and they pump it into greenhouses to help them grow and thrive. Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn the Earth into a greenhouse, turning deserts both hot and cold into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 415 PPM today). So what if we lose some desert polar regions and even some yummy coastline, the adjustments will be inconvenient but temporary, but I prefer shirt-sleeve weather to Frosty the Snowman. How many arctic animals can't adapt to a warmer climate? What animal needs to live in ice and snow and wouldn't like a vacation to Tahiti? They can lose the fat, hair or feathers.

The real question is can we make and keep the global CO2/H20 levels high enough, and for how long? Sooner or later mass global starvation will become unstoppable if world pop. keeps climbing, and this is the way to forestall it, if we act soon enough. Don't give me them Malthusian objections, give me some CO2/H20 solutions. I like a paradise Earth in the possibility window.

So, while the world is debating the horrors, extent or lack thereof of global warming caused by CO2, let's engineer the CO2/H20 solution to making the Earth a warm temperate planet from pole to pole with no deserts or ice wastelands, allowing vastly more food to be grown and turning poor nations rich. I DON'T mean a planet with wild swings between super-hot summers and super-cold winters, but one that is warmer than now everywhere, but moister and greener, with a giant network of plant life helping to avoid extremes. Since CO2 and water vapor are the keys, and the paltry amounts in the atmosphere need to be increased as soon as possible to turn deserts green and get the warming process off to a good start, but the new levels have to be maintained permanently, I'm looking to remote Antarctica (which is really a sea) as the most promising source for unlimited CO2 and water vapor generation, given that noxious emissions (sulfur dioxide, etc.) can be controlled.

This blog is for posting news on the world climate situation, scientific and political, along with my own articles. I'm sure it will start out with hardly any interest or followers, but I'm hoping that it will attract the smartest people eventually and in the end I hope for a global consensus that if it can be done it must be done.

So what is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project? My working idea is that an international effort to reactivate as many volcanoes in Antarctica as possible in an ideal location for distributing the CO2/H20 will produce the best and most cost-effective results. Sorry, one-worlders, it won't give you a license to override and control any country's economy, but if your country is suffering from lack of food you will be too busy expanding farming to care. Hence until I think of or hear about a better way to increase world CO2/H20 levels, this is my pet project. If you are a scientist, please climb aboard my AVP Express and let's make it happen.

It Would Be Funny If It Were's So Sad

It would be funny it weren't so sad, but when the scientists say "greenhouse gas" they are using a malaprop. It should be greenhouse GLASS, because that's why a greenhouse stays warm, by glass walls stopping convection of air and trapping heat. Yes, CO2 is pumped into greenhouses, but not for heating purposes, only to help plants BREATHE. So the whole sucker's game of "greenhouse gas" must truly be for the purpose of stopping more vegetation from growing and feeding the teeming billions. Is that their true goal? Another blip on the horizon is the promise of melting permafrost releasing gigantic amounts of CO2 from the Arctic not Antarctic sector. Let's hope we at least get some more good CO2 that way.

Jan. 14, 2011. Good article on CO2 levels and global temps 30-40 million years ago