The other day I wrote an article titled “More Global Warming Advice“, alerting readers to new scientific studies indicating that increased walking may contribute to your “carbon footprint” due to the increased food consumption necessary to offset those burned calories. At the time I wrote the article I was aware of just how preposterous this theory was, but in the global warming debate, rational thought and intellectual discussion do not exist. What was once a scientific debate has turned into political propaganda since the premier of Al Gores “An Inconvenient Truth“, with Democrats on one side, Republicans on the other. Both sides have what they consider respected scientists telling them that their position on global warming is the correct one, even going so far as to tell them there is a scientific consensus.

Recently those of us who do not agree with Al Gore’s opinion of man made global warming have been called “global warming deniers”, a clear reference to “holocaust deniers”. Robert F. Kennedy Jr went so far as to say “Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies.” Referring to skeptics of manmade global warming, “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.” But what is it that we are denying? Is the evidence that global warming is caused by man so irrefutable that we only a fool would argue it? Not even close!

Two German scientists Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf Tscheuschner claimed to have proven there is no such thing as a “greenhouse effect” in global climate. In an exhaustive 113 page report, “Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics,” released in July, they used the science of physics to once and for all disprove such claims by the promoters of the global warming hoax.

“The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with, but radiatively equilibrated to, the atmospheric system.

“According to the second law of thermodynamics, such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation,” The report affirms.

Recently Dennis Avery, author of New York Times best selling book “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years“, challenged Al Gore to a debate on the matter. Mr. Avery contends “our warming is natural, unstoppable — and not very dangerous anyway.” Mr. Avery amassed physical evidence of past warming/cooling cycles and experimental evidence demonstrating variations in solar activity affect Earth’s constantly varying temperatures.

To date Al Gore has refused all debate challengers, resting on his own conclusions that man made global warming is undeniable. Unfortunately for Mr. Gore and those who agree with him, there is no consensus in the scientific community, and until the matter is debated publicly by scientists and not politicians, the controversy over global warming will only worsen.

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Global Warming, Politics