IS GLOBAL WARMING REALLY A PROBLEM? — by Catherine Morgan

I am writing this post in order to consolidate a lot of the important information, and links that have been previously posted, as to make it easier to understand this important issue.

I will start by giving you the links of the two previous posts on global warming, that combined generated over 80 comments.

IS GLOBAL WARMING REALLY THAT BIG OF A PROBLEM? — by Catherine Morgan

ARE THE OIL & GAS LOBBIES AT THE ROUTE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING MIS-INFORMATION CAMPAIGN? – by Catherine Morgan

We do have a scientist that has been including his insight to this debate, and that is “Tamino”. If you haven’t already, I urge you to check out some of his scientific comments on this subject throughout the two earlier posts. And, if you want to learn more about “Tamino”, and global warming, then check out his blog at Open Mind. It’s a great spot, and I think you will find it both interesting and informative.

Now, in no particular order….links you might find helpful about Global Warming.

WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?

READ LATEST ABC NEWS REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

RealClimate.org

STOP GLOBAL WARMING

GLOBAL WARMING AWARENESS 2007

ClimateArc.org

Myth vs. Fact

Is There a Misinformation Campaign?

Boiling Point

A non-believer of Global Warming

Skeptisism.net

Global Warming, is in his backyard.

The Cause of Climate Change

The Money Trail

More on The Money Trail

For And By Big Oil

The IPCC Radiative Forcings

Youth groups in US and Canada making a difference.

NatureCanada

NewScientist.com

American Institute of Physics

New Climate Report

I hope many of you have found this information helpful in your understanding of Global Warming. Please feel free to share some of your comments on the subject.

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ARE THE OIL & GAS LOBBIES AT THE ROUTE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING MIS-INFORMATION CAMPAIGN?

Posted by Catherine Morgan on January 24th, 2007

ARE THE OIL & GAS LOBBIES AT THE ROUTE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING MIS-INFORMATION CAMPAIGN? — by Catherine Morgan

I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately about the fact that there is so much “mis-information” on the web and elsewhere about Global Warming. Even with so much evidence to the fact that we are contributing greatly to this problem ”Someone” wants us to believe otherwise. I would suggest the “someone” may be the the “companies” that are profiting from our continuing to ignore this problem. (ie: THE OIL & GAS LOBBIES) These are very big, very well financed, and very motivated lobbies.

I would liken this to the cigarette lobby, who for nearly forty years attempted to produce “scientific” facts that smoking wasn’t bad for you. Simply to promote their own agenda, they falsified research to “mis-inform” the public. Now, think about the all powerful OIL AND GAS LOBBY. Much larger, better financed, and more powerful than the cigarette lobby. The Oil and Gas Industry has contributed over 179.8 MILLION dollars to federal candidates and political parties (74% going to the Republican Party). So we should not be surprised one bit at the length this multi-billion, dollar industry is willing to go to order to protect their bottom-line. They report to their share holders ONLY. As long as these industries have the money. As long as they can control the government (especially a Republican controlled government). You can be very certain that this “mis-information campaign” will continue on and on. We as the voting public, and the consuming public, are going to have to be the ones to finally say…ENOUGH. When we do this, we will be looking at the “evidence” that is being produced by scientist and people that are NOT profiting from the very industries that are contributing to this problem. Much like when we finally had to admit that “yes…cigarettes DO cause cancer”. How many people had to die before the “mis-information” being put out by the cigarette lobby, was finally “ignored” by the government and the public??? I would say too many. We are now looking at a greater problem, with a greater and more powerful lobby…..IT IS MY BELIEF THAT WE ARE IN MUCH GREATER TROUBLE.

http://www.tpj.org/reports/gusher/top80.html — another interesting site to check out.

Is Global Warming Really That Big Of A Problem?

ANOTHER INTERESTING POST: MY ERRANT MIND –ALSO CHECK OUT TAMINO’S BLOG

Posted by Catherine Morgan on January 19th, 2007

IS GLOBAL WARMING REALLY THAT BIG OF A PROBLEM? — by Catherine Morgan

Is anyone concerned that, the year 2006 has gone on record as being the warmest year in United States history in the past 112 years? That’s a lot of years. Or, that when experts look at the global temperatures they find that each year since 1993 the temperatures have been in the top 20 of the warmest years on record?

All the experts are saying that we need to start fighting global warming now. So, why aren’t we? I have a theory. Aside from all the economical and political problems that would arise in taking real steps to combat this problem, and that list is long…..The real stumbling block is the name. Our ears just don’t hear words like “warming” any more, “warming” actually sounds kind of “soothing” doesn’t it? Please don’t get me wrong, I am not making light of the gravity of this problem. But the sad truth is that we are now living in what I would call; “the age of extreme”, and most importantly “the age of fear”. Every minute, every day we are being bombarded with; “BREAKING NEWS”, “TERRORISTS THREAT WARNINGS”, “DEADLY PANDEMICS”, you know what I mean. We are surrounded by so much grief, doom, and sadness that are ears have become immune. So, “global warming“ might as just as well be called “a boo-boo in the atmosphere“.

In all fairness, it’s not our fault. For most of us this immunity has become our survival mechanism. Let’s face it, you can’t really watch the news these days and actually allow yourself to be affected by it. If you did, you would be in a constant state of panic and despair.

The government uses this immunity to their benefit. They would like us to continue to not worry about the whole global warming thing. It’s better for them if we keep thinking it’s just a little boo-boo, and we don’t have to worry about it right now. That’s because, if they admit the problem, they will need to fix it….and by fixing it they will be throwing a real monkey wrench into our governments’ political comfort zone.

Everyone knows that the only real solution to the global warming problem is to decrease carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. We can only reduce these emissions if our government makes this problem a priority. I think….As long as we are only suffering from “global warming“, our government will continue to treat this problem as a “boo-boo“. Once this “boo-boo” turns into a “gaping, hemorrhaging, war on our planet“, and of course the Bush administration is no longer in office, we might actually see a real effort to combat this devastating and very serious problem. Until then, we might want to consider renaming “global warming” to something a little less innocuous .

Let me know what you think.

For more infomation go to: http://www.stopglobalwarming.org

This is my post from Jan. 19th on IS GLOBAL WARMING REALLY A PROBLEM?

This is interesting also…. http://errantmind.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/global-warming-hits-backyard/#comment-183

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24 Responses to “Is Global Warming Really That Big Of A Problem?”

1. icanplainlysee Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 7:33 pm eHi again..I wonder if you noticed when researching the warmest years on record that the temperature change being spoke of was less than 1 degree, and that varied up and down depending on which scale was used.Also, i dont think its accurate to say that “Everyone knows that the only real solution to the global warming problem is to decrease carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.” The UN recently disclosed that gases from cow manure releases 18% of the earths carbon monoxide, much more than all motor vehicles combined.Your point about media hype is exactly right…just as any topic including the end of the world sells. In 1976, Lowel Ponte published an enormous best seller “The cooling: Has the new ice age already begun?”
   Scientists considered covering the poles with coal dust to aid melting, thus avoiding, for a few more years, the icing of the planet.There are those that would postulate an end of the world scenario to further other agendas and these dire predictions have been around forever.
   Global warming(your right, that’s a passive name for sure)is occuring, but only in a very minor way, nothing like the catastrophic doom Al Gore so disingenously put forth.I submit this for your perusal and judgement.Thanks for your post.
2. Catherine Morgan Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 7:47 pm eThanks for your comment “Icanplainlysee”.I knew when I put “Everyone knows”, I was going to get myself in trouble. I guess I was just taking a little creative liberty since it really is an opinion piece. I’m obviously not an expert on any of these topics, I just have an opinion….and now a blog too.Thanks again for your comment and for keeping it “nice”.
3. tamino Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 8:15 pm e“Icanplainlysee” is mistaken.The recent UN report does not assign 18% of greenhouse gas emissions to “cow manure.” It is assigned to animal husbandry. One of the biggest impacts of animal husbandry is the energy cost, especially of pumping water for cattle. The other big impact of animal husbandry is deforestation; a significant fraction of the arable land in the world has been cleared to make grazing land for the animals we eat.As for “cow manure,” and cows in general, their contribution to the atmospheric CO2 budget is zero. That’s because the carbon in animal tissue, and in CO2 from animal respiration (and manure) comes from eating plants, and plants got that CO2 from the atmosphere in the first place. So they don’t “produce” CO2, they just cycle it.Cow manure (and cow farts too) do, however, contain methane, which is 24 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2, on a per-molecule basis. So when plants take carbon from atmospheric CO2, and animals release it back as methane, it does increase the total greenhouse effect.As for the “mere” 1 degree rise in temperature, the global average temperature change during a deglaciation (from full-on ice age to interglacial) is about 5 deg.C. That generally takes at least 5000 years, so the rate is around 0.1 deg.C/century, and this is known to be a stress on ecosystems. The current rate of warming is 1.8 deg.C/century; if sustained over the next century (as is likely), it’ll be a tremendous strain on ecosystems (including us).I get the impression “Icanplainlysee” is not really very well informed on the issue. I suggest you get your climate science from climate scientists.
4. icanplainlysee Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 9:02 pm eSo, cows contribute heavily to greenhouse gases. Thanks for the confirmation. Now, how much more do these creatures contribute to this than say, all combustion engines worldwide? It seems the irrational allegiance to man’s contribution to the warming of the atmosphere has reached hyperbolic levels and explains your fantastic claim of nearly a 2 degree warming, a 2000% increase.Challenge yourself to find a link to your information, please.Leading people to believe they are causing the increase in temperature averages or that “living green” changes anything is shameful and simply untruthful.Now, if the idea is to cripple commerce, economic growth, capitalism in general and American capitalism in particular, then maybe your onto
   something.
5. Catherine Morgan Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 9:12 pm eI have to respectfully disagree “Icanplainlysee”.
6. Chucky Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 10:02 pm eI think that both methane and CO2 are important forcings on the climate and both have an impact. The concentration of both gasses has increased dramatically in the past few hundred years with respect to what they were before the industrial revolution (see for example here.In answer to how much methane contributes to global warming as compared to CO2, see here. While the increased methane is having an effect and cannot be ignored, CO2 also having a large effect. The graph shows the different forcings (complete with error bars to give you an idea of the uncertaintly in each). So cows (and other sources of methane) do not contribute as much to global warming as CO2.I have made global warming the debate of the week on a little website which I’m starting. So if anyone would like to vote about it, or contribute to the argument for either side of Is global warming manmade? then please do!
7. Catherine Morgan Says:
   January 19th, 2007 at 10:12 pm eHi Chucky….thanks for all the great information and links….I’ll check them out.
8. pirano Says:
   January 20th, 2007 at 10:30 am eWas just discussing this –the name ‘global warming’ that is– the other day. In purely practical terms, most people aren’t too bothered by current meteorological conditions that are causing temperatures to reach into the 70s in December and January, so yeah, perhaps another name is in order…With all due respect to icanplainlysee, and others in the US who deny/ignore that human activity has a clear impact on climate change, his point above, is telling:“Now, if the idea is to cripple commerce, economic growth, capitalism in general and American capitalism in particular, then maybe your onto something.”Most climate scientists, indeed most true scientists and researchers in any field, don’t have any such agenda as icanplainlysee suggests. To suggest that is simply intellectually dishonest and sidesteps the true debate by injecting your own agenda into it.As for his cow argument, well, that one was debunked 20 years ago when Ronald Reagan brought it up.I’m still somewhat baffled by the fact that this debate largely exists solely in the US. While much obviously needs to be done, it’s become more or less accepted here in the EU and other parts of the world, and governments are beginning to act, albeit quite slowly. Until we all find/elect politicians who are willing to tell people that they simply have to consume less, drive less, fly less, etc, progress will remain very slow.Cheers!
9. tamino Says:
   January 20th, 2007 at 2:36 pm e

   I’m still somewhat baffled by the fact that this debate largely exists solely in the US.

   I’m dismayed, but not baffled. There is a tremendously powerful and well-funded campaign to spread misinformation about the issue. Some of the denialist propaganda is very well crafted and can be powerfully persuasive; some of it is downright infantile. We also suffer from leadership which is strongly favorable to the oil industry.

   But the tide is turning. News stories are emerging that here in the U.S., evangelists are joining forces with scientists to insist on better stewardship of the planet. And public opinion has swung toward the need for action (thanks largely to Al Gore), which of course makes politicians change their tune in an attempt to avoid extinction.

   Despite the progress in the U.S., Europe is clearly leading the way. Tony Blair has been vocal about it for years, and the Stern report on the economics of global warming has had a tremendous impact. Norway has, in at least one evaluation, been ranked #1 in the world in its response to global warming. Thanks to all you folks on the other side of “the pond.” Our children deserve better than to suffer the consequences of our excesses, and they definitely deserve honest answers about what to expect in the future.

10. Catherine Morgan Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 6:02 pm eThanks “tamino” and “pirano”….I agree with you both 100%.And thank you both so much for your comments.
11. inel Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 7:54 pm eClimate Challenge is, I think, a good alternative name. That’s how we refer to what needs to be done about Global Warming aka Climate Change in the UK. At least it is not fatalistic, nor is it alarmist, but the term encourages people to think positively about what can be done to combat the problem facing us all.In response to pirano’s and tamino’s great comments above, I have my own opinion as to why this debate exists primarily (but not solely) in the U.S., which helps me understand why the misinformation campaign is so successful in America but doesn’t fly in Europe …
12. pirano Says:
    January 21st, 2007 at 6:46 am eTamino –“I’m dismayed, but not baffled. There is a tremendously powerful and well-funded campaign to spread misinformation about the issue.”No disagreement there; I spent most of my life in the US and learned how debate is framed, but that’s a whole ‘nother topic now, isn’t it. I suppose that what I meant by “baffled” was that it’s nonetheless just taking so damn long. As far as I know, the idea of Climate Change has been talked out for nearly 40 years… Anyway, I noticed immediately after moving across the pond what a stark difference there is in coverage of the issue in the mainstream press generally in Europe with how it is reported in the mainstream US press. Almost of the day and night variety.Inel — “Climate Challenge” isn’t bad. But that almost sounds like a sport, no? The real challenge, as it’s been for some time now, is to get people to dramatically change their lifestyles — and then the market forces will follow. You see that with the rising demand in hybrid cars (and hopefully, a decreasing demand in absurd SUVs, suped-up monster pick-ups and urban assault vehicles). And to maybe figure out a way to explain how Climate Change is already, NOW, impacting our lives. Dire predictions about the future simply don’t resonnate as clearly. EU leaders keep talking about the predicted dire consequences, but at the same encourage the rapid expansion of airports, for example, with the number of passengers expected to triple by 2050. I don’t see how we can have it both ways, not at this rate of ‘progress’. It’s somewhat off-topic, but there’s a great book, “The Debt Boomerang: How Third World Debt Harms Us All”, which shows directly how debt in the south impacts us in the north. Climate Change was just one example of many.Cheers!
13. Catherine Morgan Says:
    January 21st, 2007 at 9:08 am eHi “pirano”………I couldn’t agree with your more. And thank you very much for your comments.
14. inel Says:
    January 21st, 2007 at 12:29 pm eHi Pirano,Day and night climate change coverage certainly is: I was astonished (delighted!) at the difference in the public’s perception of climate change upon my return to the UK last year, even though I would regularly read British news online while in the US. The UK public seem to be many years ahead of CA on climate change awareness, though at the same time way behind on recycling (!), and the rest of America probably lags CA on both topics. Many here express disappointment, as you do, that it has taken this long (several decades) for governments to listen to scientists and finally take much bolder steps to address climate change. The good news is that America will jump fast once its voters finally decide to act to combat climate change. I am optimistic.You are right that any future threat does not impact our lives the same way as a present struggle. Also, global issues do not impact our lives the same way as local problems. And, climate change has a greater impact on the poor than the rich.So, apart from continuously beating the drum, and collectively welcoming and supporting every new committed participant in the climate change battle, I agree that we need to question our own actions and those of our governments whenever decisions are made that are contrary to an overall strategy of improving the health of our local and global environment (as in your airport remark).We need a concrete way of explaining the present impact of climate change without blaming every extreme storm on it, but nevertheless showing we now have more extreme weather conditions more often in more places on Earth. A Google Maps project on this topic would be cool. I have not found one yet, so I may have to start one myself …I wish there was one place (website, authority, organisation, …) that would reflect a simplified visual of not just “how we are doing”, but “how much more we need to do to achieve success” in addressing global warming. Even a crisp description of what we mean by success in this “sport” would go some way to helping focus our aim Finally, I would find beneficial some sense (beyond carbon calculators) that our actions, no matter how small, are capable of having an impact, are indeed having an impact, and are not being negated by others. (I mean, when I sort all my recyclables carefully for years, being used to the system in CA, then one day hear that the local recycling depot in England throws them all in one big container marked “LANDFILL” that kind of thing does not make me feel happy at all.)
15. Literary Bohemian Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 6:44 pm e“Everyone knows that the only real solution to the global warming problem is to decrease carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. We can only reduce these emissions if our government makes this problem a priority.”Don’t disempower yourself or your readers by making this the governments responsibility. The responsibility rests with each and every human being. Stop driving your car, buy local and organic products, stop eating meat.I think its high time we stop relying on our leaders to make the big decisions and instead, make the decisions ourselves.
16. Dave On Fire Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 7:42 pm e@Literary Bohemian:

    The responsibility rests with each and every human being… I think its high time we stop relying on our leaders to make the big decisions and instead, make the decisions ourselves.

    Absolutely right. Nevertheless, there are some human beings who will be reluctant to act, and it is the role of government to compell them to do so. Corporations in particular are pushed into polluting by the laws of capitalism, and only strong government action can overcome this.
    In saying this I do not disempower anyone. Nobody lives in a vacuum, and while it is important for individuals to change their own behaviour, it is also important that they influence their leaders to do the right thing.

    @Catherine, re the expression “Global Warming”
    It’s an interesting point, one I hadn’t really considered. But the more alarmist name for the phenomenom that gets used in Britain, “Catastrophic Climate Change” is wildly ridiculed, even by leading environmentalists.
    The thing is, exaggerated alarmist views breed panic and defeatism, at a time when we all need to co-ordinate and pull together. It’s also easy to contradict. The expression “Global Warming” is simple, neutral and, most crucially of all, accurate and descriptive.

    @
    In my own latest blog entry I have analysed some of the most frequent excuses for denial and inaction over climate change, why not come and read ?

17. Catherine Morgan Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 8:01 pm eHi Dave…..thanks for you comment. I know what you’re saying about the “name thing”…..I’m not really suggesting we change the name….it’s kind of just my “food-for-thought” way to get people to talk more about the issue. Maybe I went a bit too far with it….but people are responding….and that was my intent.Thanks again so much for your comment. I’m just getting started so all the positive feedback I can get the better…keep me motivated. I’ll have to go and check out your site….sounds great.
18. Dave On Fire Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 8:10 pm eI agree totally, anything that promotes dialogue can only be a good thing, especially when it’s an aspect of the topic that mny may not have considered.
19. jestering Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 8:29 pm eYeah maybe, but meanwile no science man has still demonstrated that there is human responsibility in that so-called Global warming
20. Literary Bohemian Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 8:37 pm eDave: I find this statement of yours ironic. “Corporations in particular are pushed into polluting by the laws of capitalism, and only strong government action can overcome this.”You speak as if the United States Itself isn’t a corporation. But indeed it is, and its ruling body must, in every descision regarding business, first consult the World Trade Organization (of which we are signatories and participants.)If youre interested, I can point you in the direction of some information that might help regarding the Corporate Personhood of America Inc.In my opinion, the people we call “leaders” are just as flawed as any other human being. Therefore, all that we can really do to help ease Global Warming (that can we can be absolutely sure of) Is to ease global warming ourselves. Capitalism and Government has done such a good job of teaching us how to think in a way that implies we need their services, don’t you think? But thats an entirely different debate.
21. Chris in Canada Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm eI’m old enough to have seen first hand these doom and gloom stories through the years and the only difference in all of them is that they get more sophisticated each new round. This one is no exception. I challenge you and your readers to Google Global warming hoax or global warming fiasco and spend a couple of hours expanding your minds. I was a believer too until the pro-warming voices got shriller each passing month. That really started to raise red flags for me and I’m glad it did, I’m much more informed now.
    Nothing mankind has done has raised the mean temperature any measurable amount, and nothing we do now will make one iota of difference. Read up my friends and you can see who is behind this and how we all will suffer here in the first world for absolutely no gain. In a decades time when nothing has happened maybe some of you will think back to reading this or similar posts and realize how badly we have been had. I’m not a scientist or climatologist and am certainly not what you would call a conspiracy theorist, but I do have a lot of what really matters…an open mind and common sense.
22. Catherine Morgan Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm eHi “Chris In Canada” — Thanks so much for your comments, I am happy to post all comments, even the ones that do not agree with my opinion. I would just like to “respectfully” disagree with the notion that simply because you can “google” something that it makes it true.PLEASE SEE JAN 24TH POST ON THIS TOPIC http://informedvoters.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/are-the-oil-gas-lobbies-at-the-route-of-the-global-warming-mis-information-campaign/
23. tamino Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 pm eRe: Chris in CanadaI’m a natural-born skeptic. I’m also a scientist. So I was mildly interested in, and skeptical of, global warming for a long time.A few years ago I heard of a paper on the subject of global warming published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal by two Harvard astronomers, one of whom was a “colleague of a colleague.” This piqued my interest, so I read the paper. This further piqued my interest; to make a long story short, I’ve spent the last few years studying the scientific literature in depth on this issue. Global warming is real. It’s dangerous. It’s caused by human activity.I can also tell you that I too am “old enough to have seen first hand these doom and gloom stories,” and this one really is different. Past doom-and-gloom warnings of scientific topics came from a single, or a handful, of scientific research teams, with the mainstream urging caution (but caution rarely gets reported in the press!), and their false alarms fizzled out quickly as new scientific evidence emerged. The global warming warnings come from the vast majority of climate scientists, in fact the concensus is frighteningly close to unanimity. Furthermore, since the alarm was first raised nearly 20 years ago, a vast array of new evidence has emerged, and rather than defusing concern, it has made the scientific case so strong that only those in denial fail to see that the danger is so real, we would be fools to ignore it.Urging readers to seek out more detailed information is sound advice. But urging them to seek only websites found by searching for “global warming hoax” or “global warming fiasco” will turn up mostly the warped misinformation, often crafted with extreme cleverness, which literally floods the web, as denialist forces have taken to the internet to spread doubt.I’m sure you’ve spent at least “a couple of hours expanding your mind.” I’ve spent years studying the scientific literature, and that’s after all the years I spent becoming and working as a scientist in the first place, to acquire the background knowledge necessary to appreciate some of the subtleties involved. Perhaps you’ll understand that a couple of hours perusing websites run by denialists is a pathetic reason to doubt, when faced with the combined efforts of thousands of scientists over decades.To all readers: spend more than just a couple of hours researching the science, and don’t get your information from what turns up in a google search for “global warming hoax.” Those who create most such sites are either abominably naive, or outright liars.
24. Catherine Morgan Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 11:51 pm e“Tamino” — Thank you so much for your comment. I can only consider myself “somewhat” knowledgable on the subject of global warming. I have no scientific background at all….just a desire to inform others and hopefully facilitate change. So having you…a scientist yourself, “back-me-up” on the Global Warming issue is very appreciated. So again. Thank You.I recommend to anyone who wants to educate themselves on the Global Warming issue to go to Tamino’s site for a lot of great information on this and other subjects. http://tamino.wordpress.com/