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2 - The chicken or the egg ?

In order to believe that we (humans) have anything to do with climate change, there is one hypothesis that needs to be accepted first :

We burn fossil fuels, which releases CO² into the atmosphere, which in turn provokes a “greenhouse” effect that leads to the rise in global temperatures.

Except that this is completely false…

Simply because rising CO² levels do not make the temperature increase. Actually it is exactly THE OTHER WAY AROUND… Increasing temperatures make CO² levels rise…

Proof : The Vostok ice cores experiment. (http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/vostok.html)

Scientists dug into the ice cores in Siberia, took a 3 Km deep sample and examined the air bubbles trapped in the ice. From that, they deduced the temperatures at that time.

If you want more detailed/precise information, you can always go dig it up yourself.

This is just a short and rough summary…

This is the resulting curve :

We can see that there is a very close relationship between temperatures and CO² levels, but the rise in temperatures PRECEDES the rise of CO² levels (roughly by 800 years).

Al Gore used those graphics to “prove” that “we humans” had a negative impact on earth’s temperature, which was a deliberate (and scientific) lie...

Here’s another graphic :

This is the (in)famous Michael Mann’s 1998 “Hockey Stick” that started the whole Global Climate Change bullshit…

It was accepted by the UN as THE truth and caused the IPCC’s rise in popularity, Al Gore’s planetary success and all the hysteria about climate change since then...

Except that again, it wasn’t true at all.

You can read about the whole controversy everywhere, but the true “hockey stick”, or past temperatures curve, looks much more like this one.

And you can easily see that :

• It doesn’t look like a hockey stick at all, temperatures do vary over time and did not start to rise with the industrial revolution and the discovery of oil fields…

• Today’s temperatures are not that high when compared to the past 1000 years.

• During the Medieval Climate Optimum, temperatures were much higher than today and there were absolutely NO FOSSIL FUELS…

Greenland was discovered around that time by the Viking Eric the Red was called Greenland… Not “cold and icy land” like it is today but GREENland. He was growing grapes there at that time. So even if the temperatures do rise, so what. Why do we need to press the panic button ?

Again, temperatures do change over time and are currently rising (a little) but :

• It’s not such a big deal,

• Human activity has nothing to do with it !
  

3 - Who do you think you are ? bis (i.e. men vs carbon)

Still not convinced, ok… then let’s talk about CO² (http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OISM300.pdf)

• The atmosphere contains 750 GtC (1 Giga ton of Carbon =/= 4 Gt of CO²)

• Ocean’s surface waters contain 1.000 GtC

• Earth surface, plants, etc contain 2.200 GtC

• Oceans (deep waters) contain 38.000 GtC

• So the total stock of carbon on earth is about 42.000 Gt

This carbon moves around, and the yearly exchanges are as below :

• Between ocean’s surface and the atmosphere is around 90 GtC

• Between plants and atmosphere is around 60 GtC

• Between marine life (planktons) and surface waters is around 50 GtC

• Between surface and deep ocean waters is around 100 GtC

So, roughly 300 GtC / 300 billions of tons of carbon are exchanged on a yearly basis for a total of 42.000 Gt…

What about men’s role now ?

Well, human activity produces on average 3 GtC per year and is rising sharply by 0.3% a year !

That’s a hell of an impact and there is no doubt that we are the only cause of the enormous climate change that’ll flood NYC tomorrow !!!

But what if we were not…

What could be the factor important enough that could change the earth’s temperature but us ?

But, of course, the obvious one, the sun ! How the hell didn’t I thought of that one by myself ??!!

4 - The obvious explanation (but too simple and not sexy enough for the mainstream media)

The sun is a gigantic hydrogen bomb burning about 600 billions tons of hydrogen per second…

And it also have a life cycle. Sometimes it it hotter than others, sometimes it rests and sends us a little less light/energy. The amount of energy sent to the earth by the sun is closely related to the sunspots. There is an 11 years cycle where the activity of the sun increases, then decreases and it affects us. (cycles discovered by Schwabe in 1843)

For the past decades, the sunspot activity has been pretty intense, resulting in more light/energy sent to us and thus in higher temperatures on earth.

(FYI the same sunspot activity/planet temperature relationship has been detected on the other planets of our solar system where there is obviously no humans burning fossil fuels :)

This is just common sense… But we don’t use common sense anymore, we read newspapers or even worse, share Facebook links :(

In 1801 an english astronomer, Sir William Herschel noted a bizarre relationship between the sun’s activity and the wheat prices in England and wrote :

“I am now much inclined to believe that openings with great shallows, ridges, nodules, and corrugations, instead of small indentations, may lead us to expect a copious emission of heat, and therefore mild seasons.”

Of course he was right, but was mocked by all his fellow scientists of the Royal Society...

The current cycle (N°24) is expected to be much less energetic than the past ones, actually resulting not in an increase but a DECREASE in earth temperatures… That could very well be the reason why temperatures have not changed for the past 20 years and why they might even decline in the coming decade… Or it is that we don’t burn fuel anymore like Eric the Red did :)))

So much for the “Global Warming” theory… Again !