Global Warming Exists (2)

I would first like to start with the science community. A large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that global warming is occurring and we do not need to change anything to prevent it. Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever publicly resigned from the American Physical Society with a letter stating that he could not live with the APS policy that "global warming is occurring." Much of the funding for the study of the climate comes from pro-warming sources. So much of the publicity and funding of environmental science community makes it seems like global warming is real and hurting everyone everywhere every day. Now I would like to address greenhouse gases. In an article by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, they talked to Dr. Jim Renwick and Dr. David Wratt who are lead authors for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) who say that "the earth has not warmed for about 10 years. Yet the government still say that man-made global warming is real and dangerous... But the temperature records say it isn't happening. CO2 is a harmless gas that promotes plant growth and reduces desertification. Ian Plimer, Professor of Geology at the University of Adelaide, says "During the Earth's history, there have been six great ice ages and each of these ice ages started when the atmospheric CO2 content was higher than now, showing that CO2 in the past has not driven global warming. Ice cores show that temperature increases some 800 years before CO2 increases, hence temperature drives the release of CO2 from the oceans into the atmosphere. This is the inverse of the current populist view that CO2 drives global warming. Next, I would like to talk about indicators of the environment. People claim that glaciers are melting and raising sea levels above normal rates extremely. Well, glaciers around the world are continuously advancing and retreating with a general pattern of retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age. There is no evidence of a increased rate of melting overall since CO2 levels rose above their pre-industrial levels, suggesting CO2 is not responsible for glaciers melting. Sea ice area and extent have continued to increase around Antarctica over the past few decades. The mean rate of global sea level has not accelerated over the recent past. Sea levels has been rising for thousands of years and continues at about one inch per decade. Various non-thermometer sources such as tree rings, ocean and lake sediments, ice cores, stalagmites, support an absence of warming. Coral data also show no pronounced warming trend of the sea surface. In fact, according to 30,000 measuring stations around the world confirm a trend that temperatures have not risen since 1997. In a study by Berkeley, it confirmed that marine atmosphere shows no warming. People may talk about the recent extreme weather patterns as examples of global warming. That is wrong. Meteorologists can easily explain these occurrences. The tornadoes and strong rain storms are formed when cold Northern air and warm tropic arm meet, it sets off strong storms that can lead to tornadoes and floods. It has been like this for many years. Hurricanes are also shown to be decreasing. In data taken from 1930s to the 1960s and the 1960s to the 1990s. The data from the 1960s to the 1990s show that there is less hurricane activity than the 1930s to the 1960s data. Any increase in the number of hurricanes can simply by a naturally occurring cycle. So from the information and data we have recieved, it proves that global warming is not occurring. That is why I urge for a Con ballot.