Daily Blog, 5/20/09: Coleman's Comments
May 20th
The key issue in the global warming debate revolves around carbon dioxide (CO2). Is it a significant greenhouse gas? No doubt about it, our civilization is powered today by fossil fuels and when fossil fuels burn Carbon Dioxide is released into the atmosphere. I am convinced that that it is not a significant greenhouse gas and it has not in the past, is not now, and will not in the future have any significant impact on global temperatures. The scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) take the opposite position. Al Gore bases all of his dire predictions on warming caused by the CO2. The whole carbon footprint thing is based on CO2 buildup from the burning of fossil fuels.
When Christopher Monkton testified before a Congressional committee, he was asked to respond in writing to the following quesiton:
"Is there any dispute that "How much warming will a given proportionate increase of CO2 concentration cause?" is the central question of the climate debate?
a) "If so, what is it? b) "If not, why hasn’t the scientific community participating in the IPCC caught the matter?" His answer is very thorough, well researched and interestingly presented. Here are a few key excerpts: "How much warming will a given proportionate increase of CO2 concentration cause?" is the central question of the climate debate. The "climate sensitivity" question, as it is called, is indeed the central question, on which all else depends. If climate sensitivity is high, as the IPCC maintains it is, then much "global warming" can be expected. The IPCC’s answer to the climate sensitivity question keeps changing, and in a downward direction. This discrepancy between prediction and observed reality is in fact larger than it appears, because the IPCC predicts that CO2 concentration will increase exponentially, while in fact it is increasing only linearly. If you read the complete letter to the Congressal Committee you will see a well presented, strong argument that I am correct that there is no significant man-made global warming. Here is a link to the letter:
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