Global Warming Primer

We hear repeatedly that scientists universally agree that global warming is caused by man through increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is NOT true. Scientists do NOT agree on the current cause of global warming or even that we currently have anything other than a transient/cyclical increase in temperature. Many have a vested interest in global warming. The scientists who believe to the contrary have trouble getting media exposure because their information does not lead to the global catastrophe popularized by Al Gore, a global catastrophe that would justify massive punitive economic changes to this country by capping our carbon dioxide emissions. To judge both the news media and the science, please take the time to just listen to the first two videos cited below. The first is a somewhat general presentation with a little bit of evidence thrown in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDi_u0dcig&feature=player Youtube replies to this video would be entertaining if they were not so brutally inaccurate in terms of what we can reasonably expect to happen, but without perspective, how do we judge? Supposedly, they present the scientific view. But just supposedly.

The second video is presented by a scientist and is one of the best discussions of climate change versus carbon dioxide that I have seen. We produce carbon dioxide when we burn fossil fuels (gas, oil, coal). Are we truly impacting our environment and destroying earth through carbon dioxide emissions? That seems like a pretty important question to be able to intelligently answer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI&feature=player This is Part 1. Parts 2-4 are similarly available on You Tube.

Why is any of this information important? Based on the assumption that carbon dioxide produced from the burning of fossil fuels leads to man-caused global warming, we are preparing to make political decisions in this country that will have a profound negative impact on our economy. By selling carbon credits from our ranch land, I will directly benefit. Most of you and this country will pay dearly. Please take the time to listen, evaluate, and judge for yourself so that you can help make the right decision.

The relevant legislation is currently camouflaged under the name of cap and trade and will soon be rushed through congress. Here is a brief explanation of cap and trade: http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/22006207/heated_issue.htm I believe the economic impact of cap and trade is grossly underestimated and that this legislation will result in pervasive economic and social changes that will prolong our recession and could even be the final straw that induces a depression. Shifting our energy production and manufacturing to countries with little regard for the environment (remember China and the Olympics?) might make some of us feel good, but does virtually nothing for planet earth at immense cost to the U.S. Rather than develop our own energy resources, thereby creating thousands of high paying non-government jobs (one estimate is that the creation of 2 1/2 million such jobs would be possible) and truly helping us become energy independent, cap and trade will put major taxes on virtually every item we purchase and has the potential to cripple our economy. I am totally in favor of having clean air and minimizing pollution. These issues can be argued on their own merit. Economically crippling our country under the guise of preventing global warming is a totally different matter. The evidence simply does not support carbon dioxide as a pollutant or as a causative agent of man-made global warming. We have stunning reserves of fossil fuels which can be intelligently developed and used while we aggressively support the research for advancing our wind and solar harvesting technology.

Just for good measure, here is another global warming video. This one deals with Greenland, which at one point was actually green land (hence its name) back when earth’s temperatures were much higher than they now are and polar bears became extinct because they couldn't take the heat :). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_2bP9n3R0&feature=player

Gary A Howie

PS
I have become increasingly frustrated at the direction our federal government is turning and at the stunning amount of misinformation that we receive daily by the politically correct news media. We are making decisions for the wrong reasons, and often those decisions are very poor. For example, global warming is NOT man made. (By training I am a scientist--PhD chemist, although quite some time ago I abandoned academia for a career in real estate and now in ranching.) Carbon dioxide is the fuel for my trees and grass and does NOT cause global warming. Capping carbon dioxide emissions is foolhardy and so expensive that it could cause our economy serious harm. For those who might disagree, or even for those who agree without a firm basis for so doing, I have prepared and sent out the information given above. Unfortunately, my distribution is very limited, so if you think this has any merit, please send it to whomever might find it useful.