Global Warming News n Views

Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to fight against and reduce the Global Warming phenomenon: some of these ideas are at no cost, some other require a little effort or investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term!

1. Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)
   CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
2. Install a programmable thermostat
   Programmable thermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bill.
3. Move your thermostat down 2? in winter and up 2? in summer
   Almost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.

The argument that global warming stopped in 1998 is making a comeback, riding on the coat-tails of global cooling since January 2007. Last year, a paper in the Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society examined this argument. Now the author Robert Fawcett has co-published an updated version of the paper with fellow scientist David Jones at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. It takes a similar approach to my original treatment of the subject, although in a more rigorous, peer-reviewed fashion.

As we’ve discussed before, temperature data shows year-to-year variations independent of long term warming or cooling trends. Volcanoes cause temporary cooling over several years while the El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation cycle lasts around 4 to 5 years.

The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in research spending, comparable to the amount spent on the Apollo space programme, will be needed if the world is to avoid the worst effects of changing temperatures.

However the group said the world’s response to the threats posed by climate change, such as rising sea levels and migration, had so far been “slow and inadequate,” because nations had failed to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

“We’re preparing for a car bomb, not for 9/11,” said Nick Mabey, author of the report which comes after Lord Stern, who compiled an economic assessment of climate change for the Government, said last week that he had underestimated the possible economic consequences.

I thought it was time I?go public with my opinion on Global Warming.??I’ve?never believed in man-made global warming.? Perhaps its easy?for me to say that while I watch a?late-April winter storm that has lasted a week.??I’m sure some of the believer’s of man-made global warming will even say it’s global warming that is in fact causing this unusually late winter storm.? I still don’t buy it.? Global warming?may indeed be occurring, but I don’t buy the “man-made” part.? ?

Man-made global warming is the biggest lie ever sold to the public?in the 21st century.? It’s funny how everyone watched a single documentary by a former politician and instantly believed the science?to be gospel (people believe it like its a new religion!).? The documentary?is so absolutely flawed and filled with lies that I don’t dare mention its name.?

Once upon a time, the media believed in the open exchange of opinions regarding public policy. People who had doubts about one or another claim put forward by activists and crusaders could express those thoughts without fear of censure or ridicule. And, to be fair, that is still the case in many areas of social policy.

But there’s one hot-button issue on which virtually no dissent is allowed: climate change. In a style reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, people disagreeing with any element of the agenda pursued by Al Gore and his climate catastrophists have been derided as “deniers,” a term clearly intended to equate dissent with mental illness, if not post hoc complicity in atrocities (as in “Holocaust denier”). “Fifteen per cent of the people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat,” Gore says. “They all get together on a Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers.”

Global warming skeptic Dennis?T. Avery from the Hudson Institute in DC also is the director for the Center for Global Food Issues. What an interesting convergence of roles, eh?

He’s got an pointed observation about the global warming alarmism, and the consequences that actually can be measured.

“A global food crisis looms, as crops are diverted to biofuels.? Food prices have soared 83 percent in three years. Thousands of U.S. farmers are pulling their land out of the government’s biggest conservation program to plant millions of acres back to crops and pasture. U.S. environmentalists warn that ‘years of conservation progress’ will be lost as America’s 35-million-acre Conservation Reserve dwindles, especially in the important bird-nesting areas of the northern Great Plains. “

What’s that got to do with global warming alarmism, you might ask. Avery explains:

“All of this because of the rush to biofuels - the first, big, panicked mistake of the global warming scare.

Like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, climate change is back with a vengeance. Unfortunately for us, the metaphorical bad weekend isn’t forgetting everything learned in a six-week rehab and wrecking a car that costs more than most homes, but rather the most dramatic temperature increase over any three months, ever.

In the wake of our multi-week ice age, it may come as cold comfort to see the planet warming with such speed. What was actually going on?

Well, as it happens, January 2008 was the 31st warmest on record, but a far cry from January 2007, which was the warmest ever. A little perspective helps everything, except a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, it seems.

Now that the hysteria over out mini-ice age (Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age) has diminished, it’s important to re-examine what, exactly, is going on: the temperature is rising, rapidly.