Fire Influences Global Warming More Than Previously Thought

MILLIONS OF BURNED ACRES RELEASE CARBON INOT ATMOSPHERE - WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED?

Apparently not eco-p.c. scientists with an anti-human agenda.

There have been many alternating periods of cooling and warming throughout the Earth’s past. The most recent period began with with the Pleistocene Ice Age starting 110,000 years ago and giving way, 14,700 years ago, to the Bolling warm period for 800 years. This in turn gave way to the Older Dryas cooling for 300 years, then the Allerod warming for 700 years, and so on, until the cooling of the Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1850. Since 1850, we have generally had a period known as the "Modern Warming". Although there was a period from 1945 -1984 (period of massive industrial expansion) when global temperatures dropped enough to cause many scientists to predict an imminent Ice Age. However, in general, the period from 1850 to present has been one of the most stable climate periods in the earth’s history. Many astronomers and climatologists predict we are headed for a new cooling period as our current interglacial period comes to an end.

Human-caused climate change is being promoted with religious zeal and there are eco-fundamentalist organizations which will do anything to silence critics. They have their holy books, dogma and their prophet, Al Gore. These modern day Druids are promoting a story which is frightening us witless, using guilt and urging penance for our carbon footprint sins. They’d like to burn me at the stake - but then there’s that non-eco friendly wood burning and smoke thing...

Further, it is obvious that solar cycles are responsible for much of the Earth’s climatic variation over time. Also, in view of the fact that there have been dozens of periods of warming and cooling, stretching back tens of millions of years, it should be apparent that these cycles were not anthropogenic in origin.

It is difficult for nonscientists to understand or engage in the debate over what causes climate change, and whether or not it can be stopped by new taxes, regulations, lifestyle restrictions, and slower growth, because dissenting voices are shouted down by true believers in the scientific community - who claim they alone have the authority to speak for the civilization they despise.

The debate on Global Warming would indeed be over if the religious hysteria in support of it were to subside, and the true facts and the motives of its proponents made known to the public.

R.L.Schaefer of CA @ Aug 24, 2009 12:41:37 PM

This Global Warming Business

Blame Al Gore, he couldn't get credit for inventing the internet, so he jumped on the bandwagan for global warming. I think he even got a Nobel Prize. Al Gore is a politician. He is not a scientist.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY @ Aug 17, 2009 09:14:06 AM

WRONG

carbon black causes global warming? Aerosols actually lower sun light penetration, and create GLOBAL COOLING

I think Lex Luther Said it Best...

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html

"Suspended particles, such as dust and ash, can block out the earth's sunlight, thus reducing solar radiation and lowering mean global temperatures."

JSGOLIGHTLY of TX @ May 07, 2009 19:38:37 PM

But if...

if global warming is a hoax but we still take the measures needing to fix what some believe to be an imaginary problem, the world and it's environment will nevertheless be better off for it.

If we ignore it because we feel it's a hoax, but decades from now we find out it really was true all along but did nothing about it, well, you finish the story.

Keith Race of MT @ May 06, 2009 16:28:32 PM

man-made global warming is a hoax

More and more scientists and thinking people all over the world are realizing that man-made global warming is a hoax that threatens our future and the future of our children. More than 700 international scientists dissent over man-made global warming claims. They are now more than 13 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/3562/218/ Additionally, 32,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…" http://www.petitionproject.org "Progressive" (communist) politicians like Obama seem determined to force us to swallow the man-made global warming scam. We need to defend ourselves from the United Nations and these politicians, who threaten our future and the future of our children. Based on a lie, they have already wasted billions and plan to increase taxes and increase the cost of energy, which will limit development, destroy our economy and enslave us. We pray that honest officials -- Democrats and Republicans -- are able to save us from Obama's destructive schemes -- such as cap and trade, based on the man-made global warming scam. Cap and trade would help Obama transform the U.S. into another socialist/communist GULAG like Cuba. Cap and Trade “would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy—all without any scientific justification,” says famed climatologist Dr. S. Fred Singer.

AntonioSosa of FL @ May 05, 2009 19:54:57 PM

Sience, not politics

Yet, another wheel falls off the man-made global warming bus. In my researching for www.energyplanusa.com I'm finding more and more indicators that the IPCC pulled the trigger too quickly.

Rmoen of NV @ May 05, 2009 14:41:23 PM

Re: Global Warming

Roger.. please. We are so far past your brand of denial. It's time to take action, I think most people get that now.

Sarah D. of CT @ May 05, 2009 10:45:39 AM

Global Warming

The piece is just more alarmism over a scientifically discredited hypothesis - that the notion of human-caused greenhouse warming is true. The facts do not support the hypothesis, but are covered up by the mainstream media, and scientists who challenge this hoax often lose their funding and even their jobs. But as more and more scientists examine the facts, instead of mindlessly accepting the political conclusions of the United Nations IPCC, they are coming over to the correct side. There is nothing unusual about the current warm period - it is well within the bounds of natural variation. The Medieval Warm Period, which occurred hundreds of years ago, was at least as warm as today, although there was 100 parts per million less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere then. According to greenhouse theory, that period should have been an ice age. The chicanery has reached such a state that some researchers are falsifying data and lying in an attempt to salvage their reputations. The earth's climate is closely correlated with the sun's output, which makes sense.

Roger Stang of MT @ May 05, 2009 02:58:40 AM