Originally Posted by
JohnF
Here is an item from an E-mail Newsletter [Creation Research "Evidence News 17/11 - 20th July 2011"] that I do get.
"4. COAL BURNING STOPPED GLOBAL WARMING, according to an article in PNAS 5 July 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1102467108, also reported by Reuters 5 July. Researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities, USA and University of Turku, Finland have sought to explain why the earth did not warm over the decade from 1998 to 2008, in spite of rising carbon dioxide levels. They begin their abstract with this admission: “Given the widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008.” The researchers noted during this time there was a decrease in solar radiation and cyclical shift from an El Niño pattern to a La Niña climate pattern, but they concluded that the cooling effect came mainly from an increase in coal burning, mainly in China, which produced more sulphurous emissions. They also suggest “The post 1970 period of warming, which constitutes a significant portion of the increase in global surface temperature since the mid 20th century, is driven by efforts to reduce air pollution in general and acid deposition in particular, which cause sulfur emissions to decline while the concentration of greenhouse gases continues to rise.”
Link: Reuters
ED. COM. The decade in question was replete with dire warnings of catastrophic global warming due to increasing man-made carbon dioxide, but as these researchers admit in a mainstream, peer reviewed scientific journal, there was no warming between 1998 and 2008. There was also no warming between Thursday last week and Monday this week, and that is no more ridiculous than thinking that a comparison of the temperature in 1998 and 2008 tells you anything about climate change. Climate change is a long term phenomenon. In relation to climate, the difference between 1998 and 2008 isn't really any more relevant than the difference between last Thursday and this Monday. Look at the graph below and you will see why the frequently quoted 1998 to 2008 is obviously an example of cherry picking dates to suit a flawed argument. Can you honestly look at that graph and say that the trend over the last couple of centuries has not been upward? There has been no more warming since then either. If these researchers’ conclusions are correct, what a dilemma for the environmentalists! They loudly proclaim we must do whatever it takes to stop global warming, but they can hardly promote increasing chemical pollution. The solution to the problem is stop thinking that human activity warms and cools the earth and therefore we can control the climate. As the researchers admit solar radiation decreased and ocean currents changed during the decade of their study, but we cannot control these. Climate researchers, environmentalists and politicians need to humble themselves and admit the earth’s climate is under the control of the Creator God who does control the sun and the oceans. Surely the opposite is true. How can you use an article that shows that man made sulphurous emissions are masking the effect of greenhouse gases to dismiss the notion of human activity affecting climate? Surely it is proof that it does have an effect. They can then put their efforts into doing the things we can control, such as cleaning up chemical pollution, planting trees, and other things that are good stewardship of the earth. (Ref. climate, politics, weather)"
It is interesting that during the 1800s when much coal was burnt to power industry-- their motors driving their machines were steam-- that the global temperature actually cooled down, not increased.
Oh and the current Tweed Sun Newspaper has an article that points out that an increased CO2 does not increase the temperature, but decreases the temperature. So much for global warming.
