Jun 01
Global Warming caused by CO2?
You’ve all heard it! Rises in CO2 is accelerating global warming and potentially killing our entire civilization - you know, the basic Nostradamus wanna be stuff. What most of you probably haven’t heard, is that this is just basically complete and utter crap, and a whole bunch of scientists already know this - it’s just not politically correct to say so!
Let’s take a look at the Danish contribution first. The Danish National Space Center published a report earlier this year claiming that global warming was mostly the result of cosmic radiation and solar activity. This conclusion was based on several years of research and examination of data from the last several centuries. A summary of the research has been placed on The Danish National Space Center’s website here: http://www.spacecenter.dk/research/sun-climate/other/global-warming-and-cosmic-radiation
Not convinced yet? Don’t worry - I’m far from finished!
Just so you can understand how cosmic radiation works I’ll give a short explanation. A star burns out somewhere in the universe. It then blows up in a super nova and emits radiation. This radiation travels through the universe and some will, at some point, reach Earth. Here it ionizes the atmosphere and creates clouds. Solar activity, like cosmic radiation, has a great deal of impact on the climate, as shown by this illustration: http://environment.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2569/25691101.jpg - while solar activity in itself can’t explain global warming, solar activity coupled with cosmic radiation can and does explain everything.
Physicist Henrik Svensmark has been studying this phenomenon for over 4 years and is now convinced that cosmic radiation is to blaim for most of the global warming seen today. An article on his work is to be found here: http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/the_cosmic_climate_connection.php
Several institutions all over the world have concluded similar things due to research, like for example the University of Ottawa, University of Stanford and several others.
For all of you who have seen Al Gore’s “The Inconvenient Truth”, you probably remember his two graphs with global temperature and global CO2 levels. When he puts those two together, they seem kinda similar don’t they? Well they are! CO2 and global temperature are closely linked, but not as claimed in “The Inconvenient Truth” - Actually the demonstration in the movie was a bit of, because the increase in CO2 at each point comes AFTER the increase in temperature - not before and not at the same time - but AFTER! And why is this? Increases in global temperature increases the CO2 emission from - yes you guessed it! - the seas!.. no not the people, not the factories, not the pollution - the seas! The data for cosmic radiation, solar activity, CO2 levels and global temperature however fit nicely and show a clear correlation. For your convenience I’ve even posted it here:
Want more? Well here’s a more entertaining documentary from the British Channel 4 - “The Global Warming Swindle”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2332531355859226455&q=global+warning+swindle
So you want even more proof? Well I guess I’ll just post a few links to some REAL scientist’s work - scientists who aren’t “forced” to claim the global warming crisis is upon us just to get paid:
The Standford Review
http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXXIII/Issue_5/Features/features1.shtml
University of Ottawa science professor Jan Veizer
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=ecc98cd8-217e-448f-97cb-38926b2a04d8
(Not a real scientist), but a guy who gathered a lot of information: