A 5 Cent Theory by Posted -3686 Hours ago


There's a commercial that has been airing on certain Cable TV networks, for the past 6 months where the handsome, debonair, touchy-feely, stubble-faced Hollywood actor stands in front the footage of innocent looking polar bears frolicking on the Arctic ice sheet while dark and sinister music plays in the background, harbingering the extinction of the entire species of mammal in a habitat it has thrived in for literally hundreds of thousand of years. The dire problem facing these 1,500 pound brutes who physically dominate every other species at the North Pole, including humans, the actor informs us, is Global Warming. More evidence and footage is aired showing the dire consequences of unchecked Global Warming, including the usual ice shelves crashing into the sea, icebergs floating across the North Atlantic, and scientists standing over what looks like poor, miserable, collapsed polar bears lying helplessly under an oppressively warm Arctic sun. Meanwhile, thousands of miles south, in the midst of one of the coolest summers in the Midwest in 15 years, The US House of Representatives rammed through a Cap&Trade bill that passed with only 7 votes.

The sad, emotional polar bear soap opera playing out in 1 1/2 minute bits on cable TV is the driving force behind the passage of this ruinous, anti-capitalist, industry-gutting bill. To the Global-Warming crowd and those who are particularly vulnerable to its pied-piper message, it is as if the polar ice caps and the extent of the Arctic and Antarctic ice fields have always been the same size, same shape, and same thickness. But recent history, going back into the late 1800s suggests otherwise. This NASA GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) compilation of temperature at Gothard Nuuk Greenland over the past 100+ years shows the exact variation in temperature naturally occurs over decades of time.



Notice how temperatures into the beginning of the 21st century in Greenland are not any warmer than other warming spells have been? If this is so, how is any melting or perception thereof any different than anything that Greenland has ever gone through even going back to the end of the latest ice age?

Even more fascinating are the temperatures observed over the Globe in recent years. Going back to 2002, observed temperature trends take from satellite data at the University of Huntsville Atlanta have shown that Global temperatures have been in steady decline despite a continued uptick in carbon emissions.



As it can be easily seen even prior to 2002 and just after the super-El-Nino event of 1998, temperatures leveled off globally before the cooling spell ensued.




“There has been no significant global warming since 1995, no warming since 1998, and global cooling for the past few years,” former U.S. Senate Environment Committee spokesman Marc Morano writes at ClimateDepot.com. Citing metrics gathered by University of Alabama, Huntsville’s Dr. Roy Spencer, Morano adds: “The latest global averaged satellite temperature data for June 2009 reveal yet another drop in Earth’s temperature ... Despite his dire warnings, the Earth has cooled 0.74 degrees F since former Vice President Al Gore released ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in 2006.” 1 And the same measurements show that this cooling trend has ensued despite the continued uptick in CO2.


Keeping this temperature fluctuation in mind, it is no more suprising to find it revealed that Arctic Sea ice has been just as thin or thinner in various parts of the Northern Hemisphere during the early parts of the 19th and 20th Century. Sea ice records around Newfoundland Bay back to 1810 by Brian T. Hill. National Research Council – Institute for Ocean Technology, St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada shows this variability.




Throughout the early to middle 19th century the Royal Society of Lodon dispatched several expeditions to explore the break up and near disappearance of ice in the Arctice Sea as break up such magnitude led to the possibility of a finding a northwest passage to North America.

"It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.

(This) affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them not only interesting to the advancement of science but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations."

President of the Royal Society, London, to the Admiralty, 20th November, 1817 2

Further variability in the state of Climate and polar ice caps on both ends ends of the planet comes from observed satellite trends and observations of the actual polar ice caps on both the North and South poles. While it has been documented that Arctice Sea Ice has been waning to the extent of as much as 10% per decade since 1979, the same studies have shown that Antarctic Sea Ice has increased by 2% per decade and in the last few years, after bottoming out and decreasing in the mid part of this decade, has exploded once again.



What's even more fascinating is what Global Warming advocates won't tell you about the temperatures of the last 1,200 to 2000 years. It is well-known from recorded history that Vikings grew crops in Greenland in the 13th century, just before the Little Ice Age ensued and drove the Vikings from Greenland to search for places to settle in warm climates. It was in the exact period from 800 to 1,200 AD, where temperatures shown by ice core samples taken from Greenland, the Atlantic, and other parts of the world where European culture began to flourish and advance. This was known as the Medieval warm period and the Global Warming Crowd wants us to conveniently forget about this history and focus solely on the last 30 years. The Medieval warm period was much warmer than today's conditions. What did the polar bears do then? Did they drown? Did they die? That was before the Little Ice Age ensued, putting the kobash on the flourishing Medieval warm period and ushering in the despair, harshness, and plaque of the Middle Ages. Shown here in temperature plots over the last 2400 years constructed through research of 1 kilometer long ice cores drilled out of the Greenland glacier as part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project, these flip-flopping warm and cold periods appear to be the "normal" manifestation of the climate over the Northern Hemisphere. As a matter of fact, the majority of the temperature record on the graph is in flop-motion with the exception being the 700 years of the Little Ice age between 1,200 and 1,900 AD. This is the point on the graph where the temperature stays generally 0.5 C more below the 1950 worldwide average for longer for the majority of the time. Notice how 20th century temperatures are simply a return to the warmth offered in the warm periods before the Little Ice Age but they have yet to come close to the very maximums of those warm periods. Also remarkable on the graph is how these periods of large scale warmth coincide the growth and demise of the Roman empire and the flourishing of civilization in Europe before the Little Ice Age.



The same research from 100,000 and 420,000 years ago shows the same amazing swings in climatology notice again, the amazing number spikes on the graphs, large scale periods of cold and ice, interluded by brief spikes of warming. The up and down temperature fluctuation continues into the last 10,000 years but tightens with still more cold interludes than warm. Look at how the first graph below is similar to the others below and look at how today's 20th Century temperatures are simply appear to another spike of warmth in between glacial or near-glacial periods.

Are we on the brink of another return to an ice age? The temperature record from the last 10,000 years shows something ominious, at least to this author. At the beginning of the graph, or approximately 8,000 years ago, there is huge up-spike in what was a bottomed-out temperature - the end of the last major glacial period. Massive ice and glaciers covered huge portions of the Northern Hemisphere. The end of this glacial period resulted in rapid melting of these glaciers, all without the help of mankind in any way, shape, or form. And the end of this glacial period signaled the beginning of all human civilization and the moderate climate that we deal with today, still with all of its ups and downs explained above, being nothing like the harshness of that era or other era before it.







Why do global warming advocates say nothing about all of this history and ignore this publically available infomation and data I simply aquired by just by some exhaustive research? Sounds like a line of BS being cast out to catch a bunch of fish that don't seem know that the worm on the end of hook is going to reel them into something completely illogical when compared to large-scale facts. Thirty years of modern climate data is used to justify the entire sanctioning of capitalism and the whole reversal of modern-day American ingenuity and progress. And how strange? And why it is that only America is targeted for such a mass change in lifestyle? Could there be an agenda here? Other countries of the world who live less successfully than we do and live a simplified life don't have as much to lose in their quality of life than we do. Could it be that Europe and Canada, China, India, and others who haven't been able abide by the accords of their own proposed Kyoto protocols, are envious of our world status and are involved in a socialist leaning agena, along with scientific community, to knock America down to more than a few pegs? Perhaps to be more like them? Cap&Trade itself is nothing but a massive bureaucratic power grab by the American Government to stymie industry and feed off the taxes. Al Gore lives in the mansion that uses more electricity in a week than 28 million Ugandans together use in a year. 3 The continent of Africa is being hampered in its development by Global Warming advocacy and they are suffering from poverty from it. Sea levels have risen steadily since the end of the Little Ice Age and have not accelerated in their rise throughout this century or last.4 Thirty-one thousand scientists including 9000 various climate scientists wtih PhD's have sent a petition the UN arguing that global warming has little or no effect on Climate and is a complete farce. 5

As for the polar bears, once an endangered species, the World Wildlife federation itself says that today's polar bear population numbers 20- to 25,000. As far as population thriving or declining, In 2002, the US Geological Survey in the Arctic Refuge Coastal plain reported the polar bear population was, naturally, near historic highs. Biologist Mitchell Taylor of the Arctic community of Nunavit who tracks 13 colonies, says 11 are stable or thriving with populations that have increased 25%. Taylor was banned recently from a meeting with the Polar Bear Specialist Group. He had obtained funding to participate in the group's meeting at the end of June, to discuss his findings on the polar bear population but was voted down by the PBSG board. The PBSG group leader, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor’s, said that the reason he was excluded was not because of his expertise on polar bears but because his views of warming in the Arctic not being due to manmade causes being "extremely unhelpful" and "inconsistent" with the position taken by the PBSG.6 Now if were a group that specialized in polar bears and I had a true expert in the field and was interested in learning about his expertise and studies on polar bear populations, wouldn't I want him at a meeting about polar bear populations? But he was pushed aside because he doesn't agree with man-made climate change? What? Oh, yes, and there's this little thing about polar bears. They don't drown in the arctic sea. Ice has been melting in the summertime in the Arctic for milleniums and the polar bears have survived just fine. Polar bears swim! They've been clocked to swim 60 miles! They prey on seals in under the water! They are in no danger.7



They are also not the cute sweet, innocent little teddy-bears seen in the Coca-Cola commercials. Though polar bear attacks are generally rare, one would no more go up to a polar bear than one would go up to a black bear, brown bear, grizzly bear, or Kodiak bear. In the World Wildlife Federation commerical (er propaganda?) scientists were standing over the polar bears not because they were dying but because they to tranquilize them in order to put radio tags on them to do research. If they had not done this, they would have been mauled! Global warming had nothing to do with it. It simply amounts to nothng but a 5 cent theory delivered in a 10 cent can.

1. http://icecap.us/index.php/go/new-and-cool/murdock_the_chills_of_global_cooling
2. http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/historic_variation_in_arctic_ice
3.http://townhall.com/columnists/FionaKobusingye/2009/07/29/africa%E2%80%99s_real_climate_crisis?page=full&comments=true
4. http://icecap.us/images/uploads/GREENLAND.pdf
5. http://www.petitionproject.org
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html

7. http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/polarbears/pbadaptations.html