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• Wednesday, January 14, 2009 01:38 PM

  Global Warming

  Re CO2 levels FOLLOWING temp changes:

  http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results.html?articleid=22787

  Re Man's CO2 contribution to total CO2, one notes that recent studies showed that the ground--dirt--contributes 20 times more to CO2 than man. And in addition, some recent research on such esoteric topics as benthic bacteria indicates they contribute 300 times more than man. One also notes the harassment suffered by the true scientists who dared publish data contradicting the dogma of the Church of Global Warming:

  "We feel an obligation to publish, both in the cause of scientific objectivity and to prevent a terrible mistake - with extremely costly implications - from being made by the world's governments. But we recognize that in doing so, we lay our careers on the line. As we have found in seeking to broach this issue gently with colleagues, and in attempting to publish these findings in other peer-reviewed journals, the "consensus" on climate change is enforced not by fact but by fear. We have been warned, collectively and individually, that in bringing our findings to public attention we are not only likely to be deprived of all future sources of funding, but that we also jeopardize the funding of the departments for which we work. We believe that academic intimidation of this kind contradicts the spirit of open enquiry in which scientific investigations should be conducted. We deplore the aggressive responses we encountered before our findings were published, and fear the reaction this paper might provoke. But dangerous as these findings are, we feel we have no choice but to publish."

  Indeed, the science fascists such as Al Gore and others who continually try to stifle true research and debate are to be deplored and opposed by all honest men.

  But on to the research. See Article here. Klein et al have correlated changes in benthic bacterial populations with the atmospheric CO2 levels. Furthermore, they note that the bacterial production of CO2 is at least 300 times as large as the amount of CO2 produced by man. Even more interesting, they note that the benthic bacterial populations correlate much more closely with CO2 levels and temperature fluctuations than the lovely graphs and diagrams of Al Gore.

  I note that they still believe that changes in CO2 levels drive climate changes, though other evidence strongly suggests it is more likely the opposite, but that's a topic for another discussion. I am sure Klein et al would be quite willing to discuss their disagreements with other scientists, unlike the politicians and less honest and less courageous so-called "scientists" who try to shout down dissent.

  So note carefully, all true believers of the Church of Global Warming: Your attempts to impose your belief systems on all of us infidels is failing.

  Various communications follow:

  Mr. Hansen says that Greenland is losing ice faster than recorded ever before.

  He says that melt is now occuring at the dramatic rate of 200 cubic kilometers

  per year! But the European Space Agency reports (4 Nov 2005) that the Ice Sheet

  is getting thicker. Meanwhile, on 20 Oct 2005 Ola M. Johannessen, et al reported

  that between 1992 and 2003 ... "An increase of 6.4 ± 0.2 centimeters per year

  is found in the vast interior areas above 1500 meters, ..." What gives?

  --Riley Still, CCNet, 17 February 2006

  Analysis of new data for eight stations in coastal southern Greenland, 1958-2001,

  shows a significant cooling (trend-line change -1.29ºC for the 44 years), as do

  sea-surface temperatures in the adjacent part of the Labrador Sea, in contrast to

  global warming (+0.53ºC over the same period). The land and sea temperature series

  follow similar patterns and are strongly correlated but with no obvious lead/lag

  either way. This cooling is significantly inversely correlated with an increased

  phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) over the past few decades (r = -0.76),

  and will probably have significantly affected the mass balance of the Greenland Ice

  Sheet.

  --Edward Hanna and John Cappelen, Geophysical Research Letters, 2003

  The results are inconclusive for the {Greenland] ice sheet as a whole, owing to the

  large uncertainties when balancing very large, difficult to measure, offsetting

  quantities. Even the direction in which the mass of the Greenland ice sheet is

  currently changing is in dispute.

  -- P. Chylek et al., Climatic Change, 63, 2004

  A continuous data set of Greenland Ice Sheet altimeter height from ERS-1 and ERS-2

  satellites, 1992 to 2003, has been analyzed. An increase of 6.4 ± 0.2 centimeters

  per year is found in the vast interior areas above 1500 meters, in contrast to

  previous reports of high-elevation balance.

  --Ola M. Johannessen et al., Science, 20 October 2005

  Using satellite radar interferometry observations of Greenland, we detected

  widespread glacier acceleration below 66- north between 1996 and 2000, which

  rapidly expanded to 70- north in 2005. Accelerated ice discharge in the west

  and particularly in the east doubled the ice sheet mass deficit in the last

  decade from 90 to 220 cubic kilometers per year. As more glaciers accelerate

  farther north, the contribution of Greenland to sea-level rise will continue

  to increase.

  --Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam, Science, 17 February 2006

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