Excellent book and a must read for all concerned and interested in the subject of Climate Warming. I would add that the only question that matters in the Climate discussion is WHETHER ADDING MORE CO2 TO THE ATMOSPHERE WILL MAKE THE WORLD MUCH WARMER: WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT CO2 FORCES TEMPERATURES UP FURTHER? Everything hinges on this one question. If carbon dioxide is not a significant cause, then carbon sequestration, cap-and trade, emissions trading, and Kyoto agreement are a waste of time and money. All of them divert resources away from things that matter - like finding a cure for cancer, feeding the starving, etc.
The Only 4 Points that Matter
1. THE GREENHOUSE SIGNATURE IS MISSING. Weather balloons have scanned the skies for years but can find NO SIGN of the telltale "hot-spot" warming pattern that greenhouse gases would leave. There's not even a hint.
2. THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE WAS THE ICE CORES, BUT NEWER, MORE DETAILED, DATA TURNED THE THEORY INSIDE OUT. Instead of carbon pushing up temperatures, for the last half-a-million years temperatures have gone up BEFORE carbon dioxide levels. On average 800 years before. This totally threw what we thought was cause-and effect out the window.
3. TEMPERATURES ARE NOT RISING. Satellites circling the planet twice a day show that the world has not warmed since 2001. How many more years of NO global warming will it take? While temperatures have benefit, CO2 has been rising, BUT something else has changed the tread. The computer models don't know what it is.
4. CARBON DIOXIDE IS ALREADY DOING ALMOST ALL THE WARMING IT CAN DO. Adding twice the CO2 doesn't make twice the difference. The first CO2 molecules matter a lot, but extra ones have less and less effect. In fact carbon levels were ten times as high in the past but the world still slipped into an ice age. Carbon today is a bit-part player.
People confuse GLOBAL WARMING with GREENHOUSE GASES. Proof of global waring IS NOT PROOF that greenhouse gases caused that warming. This would be evidence that carbon is a major cause of global warming: If temperatures following CO2 levels in the past.
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