Agenda Packet 7-15-19 Work Session

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MovingAhead Spring 2019 Outreach Summary 93 Industrial output and CO2 emissions increased dramatically during World War II and during the post-war economic boom, but the Earth's temperature dropped after 1940 until about 1975. By the early 1970s the weather had become so cold that there was fear of a coming ice age. If CO2 was the driving force behind temperature increases, the Earth would have experienced vigorous heating during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, not the remarkable cooling that actually occurred. When the world dramatically increased biofuel farming during the Bush and Obama administrations, CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions rose as a result of deforestation, land use change, and increased fertilizer production, yet Earth's global temperature remained flat instead of rising. That fact goes counter to the basic premises of the man-made global warming hypothesis. The Past — This new evidence helps explain our planet’s history. During the Jurassic Period, about 200 million years ago, Earth was significantly warmer with tropical plants growing in polar regions. Dinosaurs ruled the land while pterodactyls roamed the skies. Pterodactyls were large winged reptiles that flew like birds despite their heavy bone structure. Flight would be impossible in today’s relatively thin atmosphere, but when pterodactyls existed our atmosphere must have been much denser; perhaps up to three times as dense. The greater the air density, the greater the aerodynamic lift, and the greater the atmospheric heat. Correcting Misconceptions — The net effect of having water in all three phases (solid, liquid, gas) on Earth is cooling, because clouds reflect sunlight back into Space. Water dramatically affects weather and the distribution of heat, but it does not cause total global planetary warming. Politicians unscientifically brand carbon dioxide as a pollutant, forgetting the obvious proven fact that carbon dioxide created and feeds all life on Earth — and most likely — all life that exists anywhere in the universe. Adding more CO2 to our atmosphere makes plants grow faster, bigger, and more resistant to drought, which produces more food and lumber. NASA satellite observations have shown this is already happening around the world. If we want to make Earth warmer, we will have to either significantly increase total atmospheric pressure or permanently reduce global cloud cover, both daunting tasks beyond our capabilities. Renewable Energy — Windmills and solar schemes have been financial and ecological disasters all over the world, causing far more harm than good, and without any benefit to our climate. Needlessly increasing the cost of electricity hurts the poor the most. Global biofuel farming has raised the cost of fertilizer, farmland, and food all over the world while increasing topsoil erosion, deforestation, water pollution, and deaths due to malnutrition and related illness. By even the most conservative estimates, global biofuel farming has killed far more people over the last twenty years than all wars and acts of terrorism combined. Malnutrition is the primary worldwide cause of avoidable mental retardation in children, but environmentalists and green politicians do not seem to care. Pesticides used on biofuel crops are a major cause of the worldwide kill-off of bees and other beneficial insects. Hysteria — The obvious political, financial, and religious motives for spreading climate fear are the real drivers of anti-carbon climate hysteria, not science. Doomsday religions have been popular since the dawn of man. Scientists — devout true believers — at NASA, NOAA, and the IPCC have been caught distorting data to increase our level of anxiety. You can argue with science, but you cannot argue with religious fervor. Thus, we see the Orwellian spectacle of Americans protesting global warming during record cold and snow, and after Niagara Falls froze July 15, 2019, Joint Work Session – Item1