My View on Global Warming

As if to back up the many, many recent reports of the onset of global cooling from distinguished scientists around the world, Brazil, whose northern border touches the Equator and lies in the Southern Hemisphere where seasons are opposite of ours in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning that when we have warm temperature months the lower half of the earth is experiencing cold weather. Equatorial countries rarely ever have weather cold enough to produce sleet and snow. So Brazil experiencing these latter weather-produced phenomena is an almost positive sign that the ridiculous blusterings of Al Gore and his sycophants calling for measures to stop global warming are fallacious and unfounded in fact.

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Here are the cold facts (pun intended) as reported by Newsmax.com; 9/14/2008, 10:00 a.m.; Snow and Near-Freezing Temperatures — in Brazil “Amid the continuing clamor over the threat of global warming, southern Brazil saw a rare weather event on Sept. 5 — one of the coldest September days ever witnessed in that part of the country. Afternoon temperatures below about 40 degrees are rare in Brazil’s coldest months, from June to August. But temperatures dropped to 35.5 degrees in several cities after midday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. And what began in the morning as granular snow and sleet quickly became moderate to heavy snow in the afternoon, according to the MetSulWeather Center in Brazil. “More than a dozen cities reported sleet or snow, and the snow accumulated in several of them. ‘People could not believe the scenes of cars covered by ice and the fields whitened just three days after the region experienced a warm spell that brought highs of over 86 degrees,’ MetSul reported. “Snow mixed with rain was also observed in northern Uruguay. “A MetSul meteorologist noted that colder winters and major snow events in the region ‘may be the result of ongoing cooling trends observed on the planet this decade.’ I have been following the many views on this subject of global cooling versus global warming and one of the scientific researchers reporting on the global cooling period our planet is experiencing is Steven Milloy, “Junk Science” author and publisher, on “The Great Global Warming Race” May 01, 2008 who reports, ‘IPCC researchers project no global warming over the next decade because of Mother Nature. ‘Researchers belonging to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in Nature (May 1) that, after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations… temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming. ‘Although the result seems stunning in that it came from IPCC scientists who have always been in the tank for manmade global warming, it’s not really surprising since the notion of manmade climate change has never lived up to its billing.’ Milloy explains that a major reason for so many scientists going along with the hype and bluster of the global warming fairy tale is that our government “has been doling out more than $5 billion annually for research into climate change and alternative energy.” And where just a short number of years ago only a handful of climatologists existed in the world, today there are hordes of them along with scientists and related fields individuals all competing for those big dollars the U. S. puts into the gravy train of energy research. Bursting the bubble of the imaginary global warming scenario would put many thousands of “on-the-government-dole” fantasy seekers out of work. So naturally, those that have become dependent on those big dollar incomes are the first to prolong the warming notion even in the face of global cooling evidence. Several months ago the country’s latest darling of politics, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska interceded in the great debate by challenging the U.S. Interior Department’s ruling that Alaskan polar bears were being threatened by global warming and put those animals on a “threatened species” list which Governor Palin says could endanger oil and gas development in and around the polar bear habitat, insisting there was not enough evidence to support such a listing and saying the polar bear population had increased dramatically over the past 30 years as a result of well-managed conservation. Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity, located NOT in Alaska but in Arizona stated, ''She's either grossly misinformed or intentionally misleading, and both are unbecoming,'' In my opinion, I think Ms. Siegel had better get off her Arizona hot-seat and start reading more reports from scientists NOT dependent on U. S. government dollars to see just who is misleading whom. My money is on the Governor. I’ll take her in a head to head factual debate, rifle shooting match or in an arm wrestling contest. Sarah Palin is a winner all the way around. I think she would show Kassie just whose words are unbecoming.