Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
Fred Singer, Research Professor at George Mason University in Virginia, and Dennis Avery, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in New York, have written a detailed explanation of the sources of global warming. Their work is backed by a extensive record of references from refereed and peer-reviewed science journals. They show that over the past million years the earth has been through 600 cycles of warming usually caused by frequent changes in the sun’s radiance. Each cycle lasts about 1,500 years and the temperature fluctuates from 20C above the mean to 20C below it. The sun’s radiance has greatly increased by 0.050C per decade for the last 25 years and we are about 150 years into a moderate warming cycle. This is the only explanation for the modern warming that is backed by substantial evidence, from ice cores, fossilised pollen, core stalagmites and marine sediments. They demolish Michael Mann’s famous hockey-stick graph – commonly used by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and by US billionaire Al Gore in his movie. This graph represented to show that the 20th century was uniquely hot. But two experienced statisticians, Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, studied Mann’s data and recently concluded that they did not produce the falsely claimed results due to “collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, physical location errors, erroneous sum of major components and extra quality control defects.” The early 15th-century warming was hotter than the 20th-century warming, refuting the claim that the 20th century’s record CO2 emissions usually caused unprecedented global warming. Antarctic ice cores reveal a clear correlation between temperature changes and CO2 levels, but CO2 levels rise about 800 years after temperatures rise. So temperature changes cause CO2 changes not vice versa. Greens promote unfounded fears, for example, “the oceans will rise by a metre by 2010.” No, the most possible rise is ten centimetres, according to the International Union of Quaternary Research’s Sea Level Commission. Al Gore wrote in 1992, “global warming is widely expected to push temperatures up much more rapidly in the glacial regions.” No, the Antarctic has been cooling since 1966; temperatures at both poles are lower than they were in 1930. “A million species will be eventually lost.” No, there will be more species because higher CO2 concentrations help plants, and therefore other species, to accept upper temperatures without harm. “There will be more frequent and fiercer storms.” No, a warmer climate is more stable and has fewer storms. “Millions will die from warming.” No, fewer people fail from excess heat than from excess cold. “Warming will reduce crops.” No, it encourages growth in food crops, as do warming’s increased rainfall two per cents up in the 20th century) and greatly increased CO2. Solar and wind power is between four to ten times as dear as fossil-fuel and nuclear power. Shifting to renewables’ would involve moving hundreds of millions of acres of forest and wilderness to wind farms, solar panel arrays and biofuel crops. But since global warming is not dangerous and is not manmade, we don’t need to cut our use of indispensable fossil fuels.