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Saturday, November 28, 2009

MIKE MAGUIRE: CO2 IS NOT POLLUTION - SUN CONTROLS CLIMATE!

 

Temperatures have always fluctuated naturally on this planet. Looking back over the past 100 years, the earth warmed from 1900 to around 1940. There was global cooling after that until the late 1970's. It warmed again in the 1980's and 1990's, with the warmest year on record being 1998. There has been no warming since then even as CO2 has increased during the entire period.

 

As of the 2009 growing season, the US has now gone a record 21 straight years without a widespread drought in the Cornbelt. Soybean yields this year are easily a record. Corn yields were just shy of a record because it was actually too COOL in the Upper Midwest, not allowing the crop to reach full maturity. Climate models from man made global warming alarmists have consistently predicted increasing droughts along with yield reducing excessive heat.

 

As a meteorologist that understands these models and appreciates our challenge to get the weather forecast right for next week, it has always amazed me that the public has been so easily bamboozled into believing the exaggerated 20 or 50 year cataclysmic climate forecasts. Would you keep listening to the same weather man if he was wrong 21 forecasts in a row, then tried to sell you on his prediction for 50 years from now?

 

The sunspot count continues to be at the lowest level in a century. Looking back in the past, there appears to be a strong link between an inactive sun and a cooler earth The sun is the source of incoming heat on this planet. It has cycles that we haven't been around long enough to study and understand clearly. We do know with certainty that all of the many temperature fluctuations in the past were caused by natural cycles or events. Those natural cycles will continue to happen with or without human beings.. That's why temperatures have gone up and down the past 100 years even while man made CO2 has gone up EVERY year.

 

The biggest legitimate link involving CO2 is with plants. We know that increasing CO2 increases plant growth and crop yields. CO2 is essential to all life forms on earth. Treating it as pollution is about as absurd as believing we can predict our climate 50 years from now. We also know that the warmer our planet has been in the past, the more life it supported.

 

Powerful evidence of this positive link to life from increased CO2 and warmth comes from digital satellite observations that were processed, refined and compared to changes of satellite-based maps of vegetation collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s series of AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) sensors. The digital satellite observations were processed and refined into maps by NASA’s Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies project.

 

The time frame for this comprehensive study is significant. It studied the years of greatest warming this century. The scientists concluded: “Between 1982 and 1999, 25 percent of the Earth’s vegetated area experienced increasing plant productivity”. They assumed that “increasing CO2 caused plants to grow better” but “carbon dioxide fertilization couldn’t be solely responsible for the change; climate change must be playing a role as well.” Part of the increase was from more sunshine in the tropics and part was from warmer temperatures in the high northern latitudes. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalGarden/

 

I believe in reducing all forms of real pollution, recycling, conserving and developing renewable energy. I also believe strongly in telling the truth. The truth is that CO2 is not pollution and that man did not cause much of the global warming that occurred in the last one hundred years. Don't believe the cleverly constructed presentations using distorted data from agenda driven groups. They consider their hidden interests to be more important than the truth. They often use well intentioned credible people to help perpetrate the scam. Don't believe them. We need to hold our policy makers accountable for their decisions, basing them on truth and the best interest of our country and planet. Don't believe me either. Educate yourself on the subject, verify that everything stated here is the truth...........then believe it!!!

 

Mike Maguire

 

Evansville meteorologist

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Avatar for Jack Courtney

Climate change has been an issue ever since.  Environmental researches are done everywhere.  Whatever the result of these studies, we must do our part to preserve the beauty of our environment before it’s too late to take an action.

Jack Courtney on December 1, 2009 at 01:17 pm
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