This is a response to Mr. Darryl Smith”s question on global warming published Jan. 9, 2009, in the Record-Bee.
Thank you Mr. Smith for a reasonable question on global warming. I have delayed my response for scientific reasons. I apologize for my failure to explain in my prior writings why we call it anthropogenic (human-induced) warming.
I have no knowledge of the letter published on the issue of global warming that you are quoting, therefore I cannot comment on it. As to other articles published in magazines, try to obtain documents made available to the public from Congressional hearings Dec. 2006, and March 21, 2007. “NASA Scientists VS Whitehouse Administration,” televised entirely on C-Span. In the official documents you will find an attempt by Exxon-Mobil to “allegedly bribe” NASA scientists to disclaim global warming. The English Royal Academy of Science told Exxon-Mobil to stop distorting the truth or get out of England. The European Union Academy of Science request was the same, “stop or get out.” More valuable pieces of information are in the book written by Robert Kennedy Jr. “Crime against Nature.” Fifty years ago the ice age was just a theory. Today we know the facts.
Exxon-Mobil was able to mobilize a few non-scientists, only professors who are not a part of the web on atmospheric science, nor entitled to receive any official scientific information from NASA on atmospheric science, yet they are targeting reputable magazines like National Geographic and other science magazines with their anti-global warming propaganda. Incredible distortion is produced by special interest people. Prior warming-cooling is nothing new to science. Several miles of drilling core samples taken from the Arctic, Antarctic, Greenland and the Indian Ocean gave us a full spectrum of “paleo-climate data.” Changes in terrestrial aerosols hold the key to past climate. A complete glacial-interglacial cycle, as far as 600,500 years before the present is all in the hands of our scientists. All data indicated carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) were the causes of climate changes. Nothing happens in nature without reason. Nature does not have a calendar like ours. Whatever we give to nature, nature acts upon.
All previous climate changes were caused by the Planet Earth geological activities; volcanic, geysers, massive forest fires etc. In the last 10,000 years data indicates Earth”s geological activities were not as often or as severe as they once were. We humans have deposited more greenhouse gases (industrial pollutants) into the atmosphere in the last century than nature did in the last 10,000 years. We emit industrial pollution into the atmosphere in one day in the USA alone far more than all volcanic activities in the last 200 years. There are 1,100 coal-power plants, oil refineries, vehicles and others in our country, emitting pollution 24/7, non-stop. We emit pollution into the atmosphere more than nature”s ability to process it normally.
CO2 is a vital element for our survival. Oceans, trees and plants are absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Industrial CO2 is very toxic. Oceans, trees and plants cannot distinguish between the good CO2 and the bad. When the oceans absorb it, it destroys corals, a major producer of oxygen, and also has the same effect on our trees and plants. Oceans produce 70 percent of our oxygen and trees and plants 30 percent. When corals, trees and plants die they absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Since molecules of every substance have their own DNA, we were able to determine the cause of prior warming-cooling events. At the present time the CO2 is above any previous occurrences, where CH4 is somewhat lower. But, the Artic is melting and is full of carbon and CH4 in the permafrost, mostly deposited by us humans, not by nature.
In January of this year two very important papers were filed for peer-review study. The first paper was authored by University of Colorado Professor Dr. Thomas Veblen, University professor and co-authored by Phillip van Mantgem U.S. Geological Survey ecologist. The paper states that all over the Northwest, forests are suffering “abrupt” mortality. This is bad news for the planet Earth.
Read articles published Jan. 23, 2009, by The Denver Post, Los Angeles Times and Kentucky.com.
The second paper, by lead author, Susan Solomon, states, “If CO2 levels in the atmosphere continue to rise; there will be less rainfall in already dry areas of southern Europe, North America, parts of Africa and Australia. How are we going to feed 7 billion people?” Published Jan. 27, 2009, by BBC.com media.
This is correct science that I write about. Let”s not fall for allowing phony special interests to insult our intelligence.
I hope I have cleared the mystery of why we call it “Man-Made Global Warming.”
Dr. John Zebelean is a retired scientist, inventor and businessman who now resides in Lucerne. During his career, he spent time at both NASA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a scientist. He worked extensively in the fields of nuclear physics, jet propulsion and laser technology.
