“The Most Comprehensive Assault On ‘Global Warming’ Ever”.

Mike Van Biezen is a physicist and former believer in catastrophic man-made global warming. His epiphany occurred about 7 years ago, he says, when he realized that between 1940 and 1980, global temperatures had actually declined a bit all the while CO2 was accumulating in the atmosphere at a high rate. Since then, his research into the theory of global warming has converted him to skepticism. Van Biezen says there are many scientific problems with the assumption that human activity is causing “global warming” or “climate change”. He has picked 10 of the many scientific problems and listed them in his posting on the Dailywire.com. titled “The Most Comprehensive Assault On ‘Global Warming’ Ever”.

I will use his heading for each of the ten problems and pick out parts of his explanation of the nature of that specific problem. Of course you will get much more out of this if you use the link to his posting and read all of his explanation.

1. Temperature records from around the world do not support the assumption that today’s temperatures are unusual.

“The all-time high temperature record for the world was set in 1913, while the all-time cold temperature record was set in 1983.  By continent, all but one set their all-time high temperature record more recently than their all-time cold temperature records”. And     “When the temperature records for each state were considered for each month of the year, a total of 600 data points (50 states x 12 months), again cold temperature records were set in far greater numbers more recently and hot temperature records were set longer ago.  This is directly contradictory to what would be expected if global warming were real”

2. Satellite temperature data does not support the assumption that temperatures are rising rapidly.

           “Starting at the end of 1978, satellites began to collect temperature data from around the world. For the next 20 years, until 1998, the global average temperature remained unchanged in direct contradiction to the earth-bound weather station data, which indicated “unprecedented” temperature increases.”

And satellite temperature data have indicated that from 1998 until the present there has been no statistically significant increase in global temperatures. 

3. Current temperatures are always compared to the temperatures of the 1980’s, but for many parts of the world the 1980’s was the coldest decade of the last 100+ years.

“If the current temperatures are compared to those of the 1930’s one would find nothing remarkable.  For many places around the world, the 1930’s were the warmest decade of the last 100 years, including those found in Greenland.  Comparing today’s temperatures to the 1980’s is like comparing our summer temperatures to those in April, rather than those of last summer.  It is obvious why the global warming community does this, and very misleading (or deceiving).”

4. The world experienced a significant cooling trend between 1940 and 1980.

“Many places around the world experienced a quite significant and persistent cooling trend to the point where scientists began to wonder if the world was beginning to slide into a new ice age period”. And “During that same 40-year period, the CO2 levels around the world increased by 17%, which is a very significant increase.”

5. Urban heat island effect skews the temperature data of a significant number of weather stations: 

“It has been shown that nighttime temperatures recorded by many weather stations have been artificially raised by the expulsion of radiant heat collected and stored during the daytime by concrete and brick structures such as houses, buildings, roads, and also cars.” And “When one only looks at daytime temperatures only from larger urban areas, the “drastic global warming” is no longer visible.”

6.There is a natural inverse relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels.

“Contrary to what would be assumed when listening to global warming banter or while watching An Inconvenient Truth, higher temperatures increase atmospheric CO2 levels and lower temperatures decrease atmospheric CO2 levels, not the other way around.  Any college freshman chemistry student knows that the solubility of CO2 decreases with increasing temperatures and thus Earth’s oceans will release large amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere when the water is warmer and will absorb more CO2 when the water is colder.”

7. The CO2 cannot, from a scientific perspective, be the cause of significant global temperature changes:

The CO2 molecule has only limited capability to absorb radiation that is radiated from the Earth’s surface. However the H2O which is more prevalent than CO2 also has the ability to absorb more radiation than CO2. Van Biezen says “Thus increasing the CO2 levels should have very minimal impact on the atmosphere’s ability to retain heat radiated from the Earth.”

8. There have been many periods during our recent history that a warmer climate was prevalent long before the industrial revolution.

Van Biezen says that “during the medieval warm period the Vikings settled in Iceland and Greenland and even along the coast of Canada, where they enjoyed the warmer temperatures, until the climate turned cold again, after which they perished from Greenland and Iceland became ice-locked again during the bitter cold winters.  The camps promoting global warming have been systematically erasing mention of these events in order to bolster the notion that today’s climate is unusual compared to our recent history.”

9. Glaciers have been melting for more than 150 years

“The notion of melting glaciers as prove positive that global warming is real has no real scientific basis.  Glaciers have been melting for over 150 years.  It is no secret that glaciers advanced to unprecedented levels in recent human history during the period known as the Little Ice Age.  Many villages in the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps saw their homes threatened and fields destroyed by these large ice masses.  Pleas went out to local bishops and even the Pope in Rome to come and pray in front of these glaciers in the hope of stopping their unrelenting advance.  Around 1850, the climate returned to more “normal” temperatures and the glaciers began to recede.  But then between 1940 and 1980, as the temperatures declined again, most of the glaciers halted their retreat and began to expand again, until warmer weather at the end of the last century caused them to continue the retreat they started 150 years earlier. “

10. “Data adjustment” is used to continue the perception of global warming:

Van Biezen says he initially used NASA and GISS temperature data for his research. He came to recognize that the data was not the original but adjusted data. He found original data at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute. He says, “I found that data from many stations around the world had been systematically “adjusted” to make it seem that global warming was happening when, in fact, for many places around the world the opposite was true. “

Van Biezen is an interesting person. He prepares YouTube instruction on many different topics.   Click on here to get a sample of some of the things produces.

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