(Published in the Mendocino Beacon on November 12, 2009)
Hats off to the roughly 100 people who participated in Mendocino Climate Action Day. They earned my respect for speaking up and taking action on their beliefs. However, they would gain even more respect were they to re-examine the whole issue of global warming. Scientific studies continue to emerge that strongly suggest that there is no CO2-induced global warming. People who base their global warming beliefs on science and a healthy skepticism, should consider the following:
- Global temperatures have not increased since 1999.
- The computer models used by the IPCC to predict temperatures are not able to reproduce historical data. Many climatology scientists have noted that the effect of condensation and cloud formation on temperatures is not well understood and is totally absent in the computer models that predict runaway global temperatures.
- Several studies have compellingly explained climate change in terms of minimal sun spot activities and the cyclic affect of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. These are true scientific studies based observation, analysis, and peer reviewed results.
- Al Gore, not my idea of a credible scientific source, nonetheless now says that methane, not CO2, is the major problem. I guess the science is not settled after all.
By the way, the paper probably should have identified Susan Nutter as a Democratic Party activist lest readers mistake her for an objective reporter. If I organize a protest against single payer health care, will you allow me to similarly “report” on the event?
John Redding
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