Man-made climate change is not supported by scientific evidence. There I said it. I am now an environmental heretic. The religious-like belief in this theory is depicted as the overwhelming "scientific" theory. The problem is that it is based on insufficient data and flawed computer models.
Over the centuries prevailing scientific theory has been disproven time after time. Copernicus and Galileo were persecuted in their time by their contemporaries and the church. The idea that because the plurality of scientists "believe" something does not make it true. Science isn't a democracy. It has to be supported by data and the scientific method.
Tim PriceThe scientific method is a set of techniques used to investigate phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. This basis of inquiry is based on empirical evidence or measurable evidence that can be defined. The key here is " empirical evidence or measurable evidence." In the case of man-made climate change, these techniques have been ignored
There are four main sources of data that can be considered. They are the temperature over time, the sea level, the ice cap size and carbon dioxide levels.
Let's look at temperature increase. NASA's Goddard Institute says, " the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8 Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit) since 1880." That is true but it only tells part of the story. Although there is an average increase in that time period, according to NOAA it has been static or declining the last 16 years. "The rate of temperature increase during the last half of the 20th century is virtually identical to that of the 21st century," said Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information and lead author of the study." What this indicates is that the time period we are evaluating is not large enough to give us a realistic number.
The second parameter is sea level. According to "Climate Change Indicators in the United States: Sea Level" (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 2014) sea levels have been rising for 20,000 years. Those increases leveled off at about 6,000 years ago and have increased a minimal amount since.
Another indicator of climate change is the amount of Arctic sea ice. Al Gore is no scientist but has been one of the unqualified hucksters of climate change. Five years ago at a United Nations Conference on Climate Change, he predicted that the North Pole would be ice-free by 2014. He won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize when he made the same claim. He was wrong. The Danish Meteorological Institutes (DMI) studies Arctic sea ice very closely and puts the results on its web site every month. According to DMI, in 2013 and 2014 the ice cap has expanded. This year the increase is even more dramatic; DMI's numbers show a 63 percent increase. Maybe he needs to give back his Nobel medal.
The climate change exaggerators say the main problem causing the other problems is the increase in carbon dioxide levels. According to NOAA, there is no doubt these levels have increased since 1960. The problem is that they have only risen 87 parts per million (ppm). Do you realize how small an increase that is? It is not remotely significant.
With this data staring climate change advocates in the face one would wonder why they think it is a problem. The reason is that when the data didn't fit their theory, they used computer models to augment this data and extrapolate a "trend." As everyone knows, computer models are designed by putting in assumptions that are totally controlled by the programmer. In other words, programmers can make that model whistle Dixie if they want. These models are not empirical evidence and are useless predicting long term climate trends. The only way to see a trend is having a large amount of data. We don't have thousands of years of measurements.
The point here is that real scientists know that climate change happens all the time, but there is no evidence that man has anything to do with it. Don't be manipulated by government agencies looking to increase funding and pseudo-scientists who see a financial gain in pushing the climate change agenda.
Tim Price is a longtime Chattanooga area businessman and conservative activist.