Letter: Fred needs to check Global Warming facts

I am morally compelled to respond to Fred on his notion of the “proven science” of global warming. I took statistics in college hoping to find out how to win at craps in Las Vegas. Imagine my disappointment when the course title turned out to be “Figures never lie but liars sure can figure.” The entire semester was devoted to learning how to lie with numbers. The Al Goreites must have all made A’s in stats as they are expert at massaging the data to fit their agenda.

The “Hell on Earth” scientists’ methods are severely flawed. Their assumptions all favored the desired outcome which makes their conclusions invalid. The number crunchers are not necessarily bad people, but they have to please the benefactor or they will not get any more work for them. The work was funded by the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the Ted Turners of the world and their bias is clear. Their instructors are clear, as well: “This is the result I want. Give it to me or I will find someone who will.” If the researcher wants another grant, he will be compliant. Academia tends to favor the left, so they have no political or moral compunction to disagree.

They have no difficulty in ignoring things like La Nina, the very cold surface temperatures in the central Pacific which directly affects weather in the US. It is odd, but a hot summer in Texas is inversely related to the water temperature in the Pacific. The colder the water, the hotter the summer.

Fred’s side also is content to ignore the biggest player in the game, the sun, or more specifically solar output. Solar output began to increase at the end of the Little Ice age around 1850. Hence the warm-up was to be expected. The heliologists have been predicting some decrease in output due to the sunspot cycle, but so far it seems that the sun did not get the memo and continues to crank out energy at a high level. Till the sun cools off a little, we will be hot.

Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, was all the rage among Fred’s cronies, but their side has a few inconvenient truths of their own. Spotted owls and polar bears come to mind. In the 1980s the tree huggers poster bird was the spotted owl, which they said would soon become extinct due to logging and that all logging must be stopped immediately. They apparently wanted us to all live in mud huts because if they had their way, there were not going to be any building materials left.

The concept was that the bird could live only in old growth forests and logging would destroy the needed habitat bringing on instant extinction. The truth turned out to be that the spotted owl thrived in new growth areas like everything else does.

The Sierra Club later admitted that they knew the truth all along, but they needed a focus for promoting their agenda and one lie was as good as the next. They had the advantage of having the lame system media on their side, so they did not have to worry about embarrassing questions.

The decrease in size of permanent ice in the Arctic is claimed to be the end of the polar bear. The truth is that the polar bear population is increasing and they are very healthy. It seems that their food sources are thriving with less ice and warmer water, and the bears are benefitting. Fancy that.

The Global Warming disaster caused by mankind is settled politics but far from settled science.

Richard Sheppard, DDS