Russ Steele
Given that the EPA is using IPCC climate assessment reports to justify regulatory control of greenhouse gas emissions, and Jeff Pelline's characterization of my views on global warming it is time once again to review my position on global warming with some help from the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley's letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Monckton's letter followed up his oral testimony before the Committee, with attached peer-reviewed papers to support his oral presentation. In his letter Monckton lists 50 red-flagged irregularities, errors, and exaggerations identified in the IPCC’s assessments. Many of these irregularities, errors, and exaggerations have found their way into the EPA Technical Supporting Document that justifies EPA's finding that CO2 is a public health hazard.
Writing in his post The Union’s new columnists hold extreme views, Jeff Pelline writes about my views on global warming:
To be more precise, I called anthropogenic global warming a hoax. Human caused global warming, as opposed to warming caused by natural cycles driven by the suns interaction with the earth oceans and climate circulation patterns. The earth has been warming at a constant rate for about 300 years, as oceans warmed following the Little Ice Age (1650-1850), which followed the Medieval Warm Period (1000-1400). The earth has been warming and cooling long before we humans and our CO2 generating SUVs and factories appeared on the scene.
My early interest in short wave radio, amateur radio and radio astronomy led to an interest in sunspots and their impact on radio propagation and eventually on our climate. More sunspots and the earth warms, fewer spots and the earth cools. My interest in these cycles led to my publishing this paper on the Dalton Minimum. We maybe headed for another minimum, lets hope it is a Dalton and not Maunder, which brought us the LIA. Click for a larger image.
Viscount Monckton explains to the Energy and Commerce Committee:
For instance, it is well known that, during the 70-year Maunder Minimum or Grand Minimum from 1645 to 1715, during which there were fewer sunspots than at any previous period in the past 10,000 years (Hathaway, 2004), the rivers Thames and Hudson regularly froze over for long periods during the winter. Often the freezing was sufficiently intense to allow frost-fairs to be held on the ice. The UN’s value for the solar radiative forcing, however, is so low that its reports are unable to provide any explanation of the intense cold that obtained during the Grand Minimum.
From the Maunder Minimum to the 70-year Grand Maximum from 1925 to 1995, during which there was more solar activity than at almost any previous period in the past 11,400 years (Solanki et al., 2005), solar activity as measured by the number of sunspots visible during the maximum of each 11-year solar cycle showed a steady increase –
The sun is entering a long slumber, we are approaching the no spot record send during 1913, which was a cool period. Viscount Monckton demonstrates the recovery from these cool period occur at about the same rate in this graphic of warming a cooling cycles imposed in the long term natural recovery from the LIA.
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Here is this the graphic in the EPA Technical Support Document mentioned in the graphic above, that uses some misleading statistics.
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What worries me is displayed in the following graphic, the EPA report does not discuss the most recent cooling.
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It appears to me that warming and cooling on earth are part of a natural cycle, made up from overlapping geophysical cycles. We could be headed for another Grand Minimum, while our government leaders are preparing for Grand Maximum that is now history. This is wrong headed politics, not good science.
Have I made my case that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax on the general public? If Jeff Pelline has a counter argument lets hear it. He can find Viscount Monckton's Letter in pdf here.
There are over 50 red-flags in the Monckton Letter that California's leaders should consider before levying any more carbon taxes under AB-32.
