Durango Bill’s
Debunking the Deniers of Global Warming
Global Warming Denial
Liars
Is Global Warming a Hoax/Fraud/Scam?
Global Warming Deniers claim that Global Warming is a hoax/fraud/scam.
They lie, they are willfully ignorant, and they are wrong.
The right-wing nuts and their followers (ignorant political-tribe
groupies) would have you believe that “Global Warming”/“Climate Change”
is a hoax/fraud/scam. The evidence, particularly as shown by repeat
photography of glaciers, shows that Global Warming/Climate Change is
real and is continuing. However, the “Global Warming Deniers” persist
in their ignorant claims that Global Warming is a hoax/fraud/scam.
The original picture above is from http://earthfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/glenn-beck-global-warming.jpg
Global Warming Deniers misrepresent the scientific facts of Global
Warming / Climate Change in multiple ways. The misrepresentations can
take the form of paid political propaganda, ignorance, outright lies,
etc. The people responsible for these misrepresentations can vary from
“think tanks” and lobbyists that are financed by large corporations
down to ignorant individuals.
There seems to be a paranoia among the “Global Warming Deniers”. As a
group, the deniers tend to exhibit a fear that various
conspiracies/conspirators are out “to get them”. For example, if you
run a Google search using << “Global Warming Deniers” paranoia >> you will get millions of hits.
The same result shows up for prominent people within the Global Warming
Denier movement. For example, try running a Google search using
<< Monckton “world government” >> (alternately << Monckton “big government” >> ) and see what happens.
For a critique of Martin Durkin’s movie “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, please see http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html. The web page also has multiple photographs of what has happened to glaciers over the last 50 to 100 years.
This web page will provide some information
about some of the people and organizations that misrepresent climate science -
either from ignorance or willful lying - and sometimes, both.
The
“Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine” (OISM) advertises itself as
“a non-profit research institute”. Global Warming Deniers
frequently promote the “Oregon Petition” which is one of the
OISM’s products. In reality, the Oregon Institute of Science and
Medicine is a
farm in very rural Oregon some 6 linear miles southeast of Cave
Junction, Oregon. (Population ~1,425 http://www.city-data.com/city/Cave-Junction-Oregon.html) Its founder/owner, Arthur B Robinson, promotes the “Robinson Curriculum” - a “Jesus-Plus-Nothing-Else” home-school system. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RobinsonUsers4Christ/ .
New Zealand’s Franz Josef Glacier is a good case study of the ongoing
retreat of world glaciers as opposed to the claims of the Global
Warming Deniers. It has retreated a full mile since the 1920s, but you
would never know it if you read the Ice Age Now’s list of “Growing
Glaciers”.
Please see: http://www.durangobill.com/GwdLiars/GwdLiarsFranzJosefGlacier.html
The “Science and Public Policy Institute” sounds very impressive. In practice it is a one-man (see http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/contact.html
) lobbying outfit (Republican Party) run by Robert Ferguson, whose
climatology knowledge consists of “26 years of Capitol Hill experience”.
There are two good sources for additional information about the
“Science and Public Policy Institute” (SPPI). Both are recommended.
1) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute
2) http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2139
“Steve J”
Steve is a typical example of the ignorant political groupies (as in
“tribes”) who incessantly repeat the Global Warming Denier propaganda.
Steve posts messages to Internet boards, but is embarrassed about
revealing his full name. Based on his disdain for top quality
educational institutions and his complete ignorance of observed data,
it appears that Steve has a poor educational background.
Is Global Warming / Climate Change Real?
A quick look at what has happened to glaciers tells the story.
The original photographs and story can be seen at: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF17/1731.html
The (historic) Muir Glacier is an extreme example, but there are many
other examples. (If you have Google Earth on your computer, go to
59.012N, 136.163W and look slightly west of due north to generate a
view similar to the views above.)
The picture pair above is courtesy of http://www.gletscherarchiv.de/en/fotovergleiche/gletscher_liste
Do you recognize the impressive mountain in the background? Hint: It’s near Zermatt. Switzerland.
The left picture is a copy of an old post card. The Furgg Glacier can
be seen snaking around the front of the tall pyramidal mountain. Also,
part of the glacier covers the lower slopes of the tall mountain.
By 2003 there isn’t much left of the glacier. The very dark area below
and slightly to the right of the mountain is the shadow from a 500-foot
high cliff below a ridge. One hundred years ago, the glacier was thick
enough to completely cover the ridge. If you have Google Earth on your
computer, you can see trimlines and moraines that mark the former
extent of the glacier. To find the area formerly covered by the Furgg
Glacier, just look about 4 miles southwest of Zermatt Switzerland - or
alternately, about 2 miles ENE of (and a “tad” down from) the summit of
the Matterhorn.
The above 4-photo sequence shows what has happened to Grinnell Glacier
in Glacier National Park since 1938. Grinnell Glacier is in the lower
part of the photos, and Upper Grinnell Lake has formed in the basin
formerly occupied by the glacier. The long snow/icefield above Grinnell
Glacier is the small Salamander Glacier. The last photo was taken
earlier in the summer season than the other photos, and thus Salamander
Glacier still has more seasonal now than in the other photos. (Note the
lack of shadows in the last photo indicating the high sun angle that
only exists in late spring / early summer.)
The photos were taken from the top of Mount Gould. Mount Gould is a
strenuous climb but can be easily accessed from the Going to the Sun
Road in Glacier National Park. A larger set of the above images can be
seen at: http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/files/norock/repeatphoto/Pairs/Grinnell/Quad_MtGould/Grinnell_Quad.pdf
Resources for Research
The following organizations provide evidence that:
1) Global Warming / Climate Change is real.
2) Human activities are by far the largest causative agent.
3) Global Warming / Climate Change is a continuing, ongoing phenomenon.
NASA
http://climate.nasa.gov/warmingworld/
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarmingQandA/
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif (The graph)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
http://www.wmo.ch/pages/about/wmo50/e/world/climate_pages/global_warming_e.html
American Meteorological Society
http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2007climatechange.html
National Center for Atmospheric Research
“How do we know Earth is warming now?”
http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/research/climate/now.php
Earth System Research Laboratory - Global Monitoring Division
“Climate Forcing”
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/about/climate.html
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ucar.edu/research/climate/warming.jsp
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology
“Global Climate Change” “How do we know?”
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/evidence/
American Geophysical Union (world's largest scientific society of Earth and space scientists)
“Human Impacts on Climate”
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change_position.html
American Association for the Advancement of Science
“The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now”
http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climate_change/mtg_200702/aaas_climate_statement.pdf
http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climate_change/
National Science Foundation
“Global Warming Greatest in Past Decade”
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112206
U. S. Geological Survey
“Glacier and Landscape Change in Response to Changing Climate”
http://www.usgs.gov/global_change/glaciers/default.asp
Time lapse video: “Glacier Erasure: South Cascade Glacier in a Changing Climate”
http://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/glacier/video.html
National Snow and Ice Data Center - Global Glacier Recession
“We live in a time of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations with an attendant warming of the climate.”
http://nsidc.org/glims/glaciermelt/
United Nations Environment Programme/World Glacier Monitoring Service
“Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures”
“There is mounting evidence that climate change is triggering a shrinking and thinning of many glaciers world-wide”
http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/ (Introduction and links to a 26 MB WGMS report)
The United States Energy Information Administration
“Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, and Energy”
http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/greenhouse/Chapter1.htm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Report: Human activity fuels global warming”
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/climate.html
California Institute of Technology
“How We Know Global Warming is Real”
“The science behind human-induced climate change”
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~tapio/papers/skeptic_2008.pdf
Atmospheric Sciences - University of Illinois - Champaign
“Evidence continues to mount that human activities are altering the Earth’s climate on a global scale.”
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/research/01climate.html
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
“Global Warming”
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12457
The UK’s Met Office Hadley Centre
“Climate change - the big picture”
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/myths/index.html
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/guide/
The UK’s Royal Society
“Climate change controversies: a simple guide”
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=6229
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Based in Switzerland)
“Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report”
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf
Japan Meteorological Agency
“Global Warming Projection Vol.7”
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/gwp7/index-e.html
The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
“Our climate has changed substantially.” “Global climate change and global warming are real and observable.”
http://www.amos.org.au/publications/cid/3/t/publications
Royal Society of New Zealand
“The globe is warming because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.”
http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/news/media_releases/2008/clim0708.aspx
National Geographic Magazine
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/
Scientific American Magazine
http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=global-warming-and-climate-change
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
Also please see “The Great Global Warming Swindle” is itself a Fraud and a Swindle
http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
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