Climate not changing as quickly as projected

By Doug Rich

Garbage in, garbage out, was the message from Patrick Michaels, Ph.D., at the KSU Cattlemen's Day held March 5 in Manhattan, Kan. Computer models used to forecast climate change are only as good as the data they receive.

Michaels is a distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and he was a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

When the global temperature computer models were developed, several important factors were either omitted or put in at adjusted rates such as sea surface temperatures, black dust from Eurasia and solar influence of the sun. All of these factors have an effect on global temperature along with greenhouse gases like methane. When Michaels fed the correct values for these factors into the computer model, the adjusted global temperate went down.

KSU CATTLEMEN"S DAY--Methane gas in the atmosphere is not increasing according to computer model projections. That was the message from Patrick Michaels (center), Ph.D., distinguished senior fellow in the school of Public Policy at George Mason University, at the KSU Cattlemen's Day held March 5 in Manhattan, Kan. Michaels was a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Photo by Doug Rich.)

Water vapor in the upper atmosphere is declining and because it is declining, the temperature is not rising at the rate it was projected to raise, Michaels said. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, and it is decreasing.

"EPA is wrong; most of the warming is not, most likely, the result of changes in greenhouse gases," Michaels said.

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas, and according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the level of methane in the atmosphere is going up. Bovine flatulence, rice paddy agriculture, and coal mining are three of the main sources of methane gas emissions. Michaels said that methane is not increasing in the atmosphere as it was projected to rise.

"Why aren't your congressmen aware of this? They are aware of it, but they might not like to hear about it," Michaels said. "What you need to do is tell them about it."

Michaels said there is a petition to reopen the endangerment finding by EPA about greenhouse gases, and if that happens agriculture may be saved.

"EPA will only do something extreme as long as there is extremism at the top of the administration," Michaels said.

Global temperature is rising at a constant rate, not at a wild exponential rate as suggested by some computer models. When all of the computer models are all saying something different, how do we decide which one is correct?

"Look out the window," Michaels said. "It is not rocket science. See which model matches what the weather is doing now."

Doug Rich can be reached by phone at 785-749-5304 or by email at richhpj@aol.com.

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Reader Comments Manfred Zysk, M.E. — 03/19/2010 10:03:16 GLOBAL ENERGY, CLIMATE FACTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT By Manfred Zysk, M.E. – March 19, 2010 Website: www.MZ-Energy.com Publication is authorized by author The disavowal of Fossil Fuel Depletion, Global Climate Change denials, and to do nothing from evident dimwits, are obviously not the solution and can lead to national suicide. The most despicable and criminal tactics are being used by planting erroneous and false information and then using these fabrications and false information to befuddle the public to justify any illegal and criminal activities by companies, corporations, military, intelligence organizations and governments for exploitive schemes, corrupt politics and for inducing wars, which have global economic implications. According to historical evidence, the same irrational tactics are now re-enacted and imposed upon populations with few new gimmicks, but with a litany of denials. Major U.S. News Networks have sunk so low that they even deny and lie about the changes in the climate and the weather. Unbelievable, but disgracefully true. How can this be happening! The USA used to be known as the world leader in education, technology and innovation, but now for reasons of maximizing profit motives and greed, the USA cannot save itself from its created disintegration and probable economic disaster. The USA has become evidently impotent and suicidal, and its government demands and insists upon its own economic destruction by any and all possible means. This is not capitalism, it is simply greed driven into frantic economic cannibalism and sheer insanity. When the American economy has been reduced to the lowest wages in the world, then all our multi-national corporations are not able to sell imported goods any longer, because the American public is so dependent upon imports, but is not able to afford these imports any more. America has become the New Roman Empire and is running out of energy and steam, and its leaders are not courageous enough to approve of new energy solutions for fear that most countries would and could become energy independent from the United States. The pipedream of world domination is coming to an end. 40% of global carbon dioxide emissions come from natural sources, but 60% of carbon dioxide emissions come from industrial and man-made sources. CO2 AT NEW HIGHS DESPITE RECESSION - Oslo, Norway Reuters, March 15, 2010 Johan Stroem of the Norwegian Polar Institute and Stockholm University compiled CO2 data from the Arctic Svalbard Archipelago for early March 2009 measuring 393.17 ppm, and early March 2010 measuring 393.71 ppm of CO2. The economic recession did not reduce the CO2 emissions as was expected. Kim Holmen at the Norwegian Polar Institute said: the data “seem to show that we continue to emit as if there was no tomorrow.” A 2009 study of the ocean off Africa indicate carbon levels in the atmosphere were at their highest in 2.1 million years. As I previously published, tropical air currents warm the oceans which continually produce more moisture into the atmosphere. Heat is energy which can produce major wind storms, tornados and hurricanes. A continuous generation of heat pushes warm air masses into the arctic to melt permafrost, and warmer ocean air currents are thawing the Arctic ice shelves above the sea surface, and the warmer ocean waters below the sea surface are melting the Arctic ice shelves from below the sea surface and is melting the frozen methane hydrates which are located on the ocean floor worldwide and around all continents. The annual emissions of methane hydrates amount to 440 million tons and are the equivalent between 11 billion to 13.2 billion tons of Carbon Dioxide. Continuous 24-hour heat generation forces these air masses to condense into the Arctic regions as well as into the Antarctic regions and produces air turbulences. The continuous accumulation of condensed air masses from the Arctic are forced to move southward and bring major snow storms during the winter months, but when being fronted and converged with warm moisture laden air masses from the tropical regions, then the combined air masses produce large rain storms and flooding. As the seasons change into summer, the tropical and sub-tropical regions become continuously hotter and produce shifting weather patterns, droughts, deserts, crop failures, hurricanes, tornadoes, electricity brownouts, and major economic damages. Similarly, this happens at the Antarctic and in the Southern Hemisphere as well, except that most of the Earth land mass 29.1% (148.6 million sq. km) 13.9 million sq. miles are located in the Northern Hemisphere, where most of the economic damages are expected to occur. Most of the world surface area is covered by the oceans and amount to 70.9% (361.4 million sq. km) 57.4 sq. miles, and the Southern Hemisphere disproportionally contains most of the ocean waters with 82.3%. This means that the melting ice and water is mostly distributed into the Southern Hemisphere, and can affect the balance of the Earth, by shifting the Magnetic North Pole by approximately 9 miles (15 kilometers) annually towards Russia, and has a daily elliptical movement of 50 miles (80 kilometers) from its center point according to verified research. After approximately 400 years of relative calm, the North Magnetic Pole has moved about 685 miles (1100 km) northwest in the last 100 years, and is expected to reach Siberia in about 50 years. Such weight shifting of the Earth Axis will affect the ocean currents, Gulf Stream circulation pattern, including the weight upon various Earth Plates, and produce volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in weak Earth Plate locations. Because of the present Earth rotation and speed, the Earth is trying to compensate for any weight changes, which is being displayed by movements of earth plates with active volcanoes and earthquakes. This year in 2010, we need to understand the true situation of Global Climate Change and that we are already in a serious chain reaction of climate events which become worse if not rectified. We are experiencing huge electric power outages lasting over 1 week at a time for 500,000 to over 1 million people across the United States from major snow storms, rain storms, 70 mile an hour (112km) winds, flooding and brownouts in the summer due to high electricity demand. Such year-round electricity failures will not work very well for electric cars and will cause substantial economic losses, particularly when, or if climate changes become substantially worse in the near future. The present type concept and technology for electric cars are inadequate to meet our future transportation requirements. If we eliminate carbon emissions, we eliminate the melting of polar ice, the melting of permafrost, the melting of methane hydrates on the ocean floor thereby we reduce and eliminate worsening weather patterns such as droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and major agricultural and economic losses. This is a monumental and costly task, and none of the present initiatives by the United States, European Union or the United Nations are adequate to reverse the present climate trend, and we do not have the determination to ensure the human survival. Although an attempt will be made out of desperation when global climate conditions become extremely severe, but by that time any efforts will be too little and too late as usual. The final result is that our global climate is changing due to the emissions from methane, carbon dioxide and chemicals which in turn cause a chain reaction of events that when combined accelerate the frequency of global disasters. It can be expected that this global trend will continue until the most affective scientific methods and processes are able produce a reversal in this global trend. If the human race continues to destroy the Earth natural environment, then the consequences will become worse than they are now – obviously. These simple truths cannot be denied and are evidenced by the continuous acceleration of natural disasters no matter how many lies are generated by exploiters, corporations and governments. Re-issued from September 16, 2009. - At the present, global warming due to CO2, methane, and chemical emissions are melting the Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves which in turn produce a chain reaction that create warmer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere with wind currents, warmer ocean currents which in turn melt the permafrost. Present Permafrost is melting at an annual rate of 1.5 inches (4 centimeters), or 15 inches (40 centimeters) in 10 years. The global permafrost is estimated to contain approximately 950 billion to 1.5 trillion tons of stored methane and annual methane emissions are presently estimated at 440 million tons. Methane is 25-30 times stronger than CO2, and the 440 million tons of methane is the equivalent to 11 to 13.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide. A study indicated that when a 10 percent release of atmospheric CO2 from permafrost would increase the count of parts per million by 80, or to about 467 ppm. Records show that Greenland previously became free of ice at 400 ppm, and Hawaii already recorded 400 ppm of CO2 emissions. Frozen Permafrost and Tundra come in thicknesses from 50 to 600 meters (160 to 2,000 feet). Organic decomposition of thawed vegetation and soil of permafrost can reach depths of more than 30 feet. The Arctic, Canada and Siberia permafrost and Tundra are thawing at a rate of 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year, and some areas are thawing 15 inches (38 centimeters) annually. Exploration of permafrost depth and Tundra thickness of the Northern Hemisphere is extremely important and much of this can be done with satellite topography in combination with ground research teams. For additional energy and climate change information please see: www.MZ-Energy.com There are approximately 3 trillion tons of methane gas contained in frozen hydrates beneath the ocean floor along the East and West Coast of South America, North America, entire North Pacific, Asia, Indonesia, Australia, India, Arabian Sea, around the coasts of East and West Africa and a large area of the Barents Sea. The methane hydrate was found in thick sediment layers of 15-20 meters (50-65 feet) in China, 132 meters (433 feet) in India, and Andaman Islands 600 meters (984 feet) in frozen hydrates beneath the ocean floor. The Andaman Islands just had a 7.6 earthquake in the Indian Ocean on August 10, 2009, and an earthquake in 2004 killed 228,000 people. The Arctic and Antarctic melting ice dilutes the salinity of ocean currents which then is expected to slow down the ocean currents. The slowing of ocean currents heats the ocean waters which then cause storms and hurricanes and increases the melting of the frozen permafrost and stored methane on the ocean floor. The huge problem are the 950-1,500 billion tons of methane stored in the frozen permafrost of the Tundra amounting to 30% of the land surface area in Canada (11.5 Million Sq. Miles) including in the World surface area of 20% ( 57.9 Million Sq. Miles), and the 3 trillion tons of methane that is stored beneath the ocean floor. The combined quantity of methane in the permafrost and frozen methane hydrates in the ocean floor sediment amount to approximately 3.95-4.5 trillion tons. Warmer wind currents and warmer ocean water currents are causing major changes in the overall global weather system by continuously feeding more methane into the atmosphere from the melting permafrost as well as from warmer oceans releasing ever more methane from the ocean floor. For additional information on world energy supply and climate change research, please see my website: www.MZ-Energy.com. Warmer air and warmer ocean water are expected to increase air currents and water currents to cause underwater turbulence which is expected to thaw the frozen methane on the ocean floor, and release large amounts of more methane hydrates into the atmosphere. The frozen methane on the ocean floor covers such an immensely large area, that it warrants the publication of this map below, and it was published by Energy Outlook 2007 and Der Spiegel, 2005 and labeled as Energy from Ice (Global distribution of methane hydrate deposits on the ocean floor. Source: Klaudia and Sandler, 2005. CONTINUED ? ? The World Map above shows large amounts of methane (dark blue) enveloping the continents. This map also shows that most of the areas of methane at one time contained vegetation and animals which over time of millions of years have decomposed into methane – now became frozen methane. Much of the frozen methane is in relatively shallow ocean waters around these continents as shown. The planned sequestration of CO2 on the ocean floor will be dangerous because the CO2 will spread out over a large ocean floor area and warmer air and ocean currents cause an upwelling motion toward the water surface and release the CO2 into the atmosphere. In addition, there are earth plate movements, plate tectonics and underwater earthquakes causing tsunamis which can cause violent shaking and movement of the sequestered CO2 toward the ocean surface. South East Asia and the Indian Ocean countries are riddled with earthquakes on a regular basis, and the sequestration of CO2 on the ocean floor is out of the question. When viewing the global earth plate movements and plate buckling, earth plate subduction, active global earthquakes and the amount of existing methane deposits on the ocean floor, it becomes obvious that the sequestration of CO2 on the ocean floor can become catastrophic. A NASA study in 2001 shows a huge release of frozen sea floor methane about 55 million years ago that heated the Earth by 13 degrees F. (7 degrees C.), and that was a huge catastrophe. With the global warming of the air and the warming of ocean waters, the ocean floor is then melting the frozen methane, which has a tendency to carry the CO2 gas to the surface of the ocean and the wind carries the methane and additional CO2 into the atmosphere. Then this is a global catastrophe, and the consequences are unimaginable to the human race. Climate changes such as increased warmer temperatures over several continents have an effect on air currents and therefore change the jet-stream and existing weather patterns into unusual and abnormal conditions. This causes a more profound force and velocity that in turn tend to shift the overall world weather pattern into global warming, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. The earth rotation with fluctuating temperatures of day and night, including seasonal temperature changes combined with the annual movement (approx. 25 miles) of the North Pole contribute to the present global climate changes. Since April, 2009, I have checked the daily temperatures of Fairbanks, Alaska. During this time I was shocked to see that the temperatures in Fairbanks (72-85 degrees) repeatedly were warmer than in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Kansas City and Los Angeles. The average Fairbanks temperature for the month of July is 72 degrees. The ever increasing amount of airborne toxic chemicals, carbon dioxide and nuclear radiation emissions into the atmosphere worldwide are reaching a dangerous limit by contaminating the atmosphere, the soil and food supply, with increasing health problems, by reaching limits of acidity and CO2 absorbency by the oceans, and when combined, the airborne toxic chemicals are causing global climate change, and changes in present weather patterns. Serious consideration should be given to research and the latest press releases about global climate changes and the accelerating release of methane from thawing permafrost and methane hydrates from the ocean floor combined contain approximately 3.9 – 4.5 Trillion tons of methane while the oceans are becoming steadily warmer. Warmer oceans release more warm moisture and thaw more permafrost on land, while at the same time warmer ocean waters will accelerate the thawing of methane hydrates on the ocean floor in continuously increased volumes and in an accelerating cycle. According to the latest research reports, the thawing of methane that is released from the permafrost and the methane hydrates that is released from the ocean floor has not been incorporated into the global climate change research analysis by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN-IPCC). This is very serious, because regardless of how many years it would take in an all-out effort to stabilize and reverse Global Climate Change, it would take an additional several years to stop the warming of the oceans, and then several years to cool the oceans. This happens from industrialization and increasing global population growth. In order to reduce or eliminate this pending manmade climate change catastrophe, it is necessary to take appropriate action. Any cap-and-trade legislation allows even more greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, and causes a greater climate crisis. According to measurements, the Western Antarctic Peninsula alone has lost about 8,000 square miles of ice during the last 50 years. The Union of Concerned Scientists (action@ucsusa.org) Feb. 22, 2010 The Union of Concerned Scientists with over 75,000 memberships disclosed: “Corporations, front groups, and climate deniers who oppose critical efforts to curb global warming are waging an all-out war on science in the news media every day and mislead the public about global warming.” Our opponents have deep pockets and bankroll their fraudulent claims and broadcast them to the world. The facts are: The first 10 years of this century have been the warmest decade on record. Sea ice in the Arctic melted to its third-lowest area ever measured last summer. Worldwide, ocean temperatures last summer were hotter than ever previously recorded. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are currently the highest they have been in at least 800,000 years. If global emissions continue unabated, taxpayers could be saddled with hundreds of billions of dollars in damages – from flooding, storm damages, agricultural losses, healthcare costs and huge annual economic losses. The Union of Concerned Scientists advocate: Clean renewable energy, less dirty fossil fuels, better fuel economy standards, new emission reductions for cars, and advocate sustainable agricultural practices to protect air, water, soil and reduce warming emissions. President Barack Obama has emphasized the importance of developing new sources of energy and cultivating the jobs that will come with them. “I am convinced that whoever builds a clean energy economy, whoever is at the forefront of that, is going to own the 21st - century global economy” at a meeting of governors at the White House on February 3, 2010. February 4, 2010, the Pentagon called climate change a threat to national security that “may spark or exacerbate future conflicts.” “Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments.” Bill Gates at the TED Conference on February 12, 2010 said: “What we are going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system, so we need energy miracles.” The world must eliminate all of its carbon emissions and cut energy costs in half in order to prevent a climate catastrophe, which will hit the worlds poorest hardest. “We have to drive full speed and get a miracle in a pretty tight timeline.” Please see my website: www.MZ-Energy.com In 2009 alone, Big Oil and other energy interests spent a record breaking $154 million just for lobbying efforts, which includes an aggressive smear campaign to kill clean energy legislation. According to the recent Supreme Court decision, our senators and congressmen can be bought and bribed by the oil and energy corporations with unlimited amounts of money. The disregard to national priorities and the favoritism toward Big Oil and energy corporations at this rate will bring on a major economic depression. At the British Royal Society on February 10, 2010, the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security released a new report that oil shortages, insecurities of supply and price volatility will destabilize economic, political and social activity within 5 years, and Peak Oil must be a priority for the government. The Industry Taskforce warns that the United Kingdom is ill-prepared for rising oil prices brought on by dwindling supplies. “Working together, we must ensure that the government takes action to address the impact of the oil crunch and ensure the UK is better prepared to withstand higher and more volatile oil prices.” Major oil companies have admitted that the supply of oil is diminishing in the next few years, as well as in the future, because super oil field exploration have resulted in fewer worthwhile oil fields, and existing oil fields become depleted. British Petroleum stated it is usually able to get 25% to 40% of the oil in place, but only as much as 30% is extracted from the ground in practice. The Mid-East (Iraq, Iran) and South America still have a substantial amount of oil in the ground or off-shore, but those countries are not very willing to dispose or squander their oil treasure. Present and future global oil production as well as oil depletion is expected to remain constant through 2014, but after that, world oil production will go into decline. The ability to continue the increase of global oil production will come to an end this year, and oil prices are expected to remain relatively stable for about 1 to 2 years, unless the oil supply is disrupted. Therefore, energy companies and oil companies are scrambling to invest into tar sands, oil shale, coal, natural gas, nuclear power, wind and solar energy with anticipation of generating high profits from diminishing fossil fuel energy resources in the near future. Electricity production inefficiency and waste is estimate at 25% to 44%. The true facts about nuclear power energy are astonishing. Global nuclear power plants amount to 435 with an average lifespan of 25-35 years, require 15 years for investment payback, and cost approximately $7 billion to $15+ billion each for construction, operating costs, nuclear waste storage, decommissioning, safety violations, insurance costs, et cetera. Nuclear power plant costs, operation and electricity costs have been skyrocketing. To date the USA has invested over $500 billion into 104 operating nuclear power plants. 40% of nuclear fuel is imported and nuclear power will not provide energy independence as is claimed. 400 additional reactors are planned worldwide at an estimated cost of $24 Trillion ($60 billion each) just for construction alone. Each reactor produces 30 to 50 tons of “high-level” radioactive waste each year, and 400 reactors would produce a total of 12,000 to 20,000 tons of radioactive waste annually. Increased volumes of radiation concentrations and contamination will become a serious health problem, especially during weather inversions along the East Coast of the United States. Three foot thick concrete walls do not contain radiation at all, and the radiation is released into the atmosphere unrestricted. Exposure of 40+ years of such large continuous radiation contamination emissions into the atmosphere and all food supply can ultimately affect the immune system and health particularly to the population who live about 100 miles downwind from nuclear power plants. The United States in 2008 imported 34.2 million short tons of coal for about $1.95 billion. Unless a new form of energy is produced immediately, any further reductions or constriction of the energy supply causes serious economic repercussions, because at the present, this planet does not have an alternative energy source in place to replace fossil fuel. To develop and to market my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes and Systems in the USA and globally would require a substantial amount of money and time, of which we do not have anymore. Please see my website: www.MZ-Energy.com Present and future population growth increases energy demands which cannot be met because of limited fossil fuel resources. The global demands for the next 40 and 60 years for energy, food, jobs, housing, clothing, daily necessities, transportation, commodities, infrastructure and services can be reasonably estimated. Many economic adjustments need to be made accordingly, especially by all governments and the military. This places the existing human race into a very difficult survival situation for at least half of the world population of 3.4 billion people. The doubling of current World Population Growth rate is estimated at 61 years, while in the 1960s, the doubling of the World Population was only 35 years. Presently, many Asian and African countries double their population in about 15 years. World population in 2009 was estimated at 6.8 billion people, and in the year 2050 the World Population is estimated at approximately 9.4 billion people. Such global population growth places tremendous strains upon many natural resources, energy supply, infrastructure, services and economy. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Research results are validated and were confirmed by scientists, oceanographers, planetary scientists, naturalists, glaciologists, paleontologists and geographers from six (6) continents, including the British Antarctic Survey, British and German Universities, California and Massachusetts Universities, the British Royal Society, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, NASA, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the European Space Agency. The average growing season for crops in the Northern Hemisphere has increased by 11 days due to ongoing Global Climate changes. The present controversy in the news media about global climate change and heavy snowfall in the northern hemisphere contains poor logic and lack of common sense. The weather is indeed changing as I have previously disclosed, and summers are becoming hotter, and the winters are more severe and/or colder. The present warmer Ocean waters generate more moisture into the atmosphere and the warm air currents push this moisture in a steady stream and with force into the Arctic region, where the moist air is condensed and forced to move southward blanketing large portions of the United States, Europe and the Northern Hemisphere with cold and massive snow storms. In addition, when the cold condensed moisture laden air masses from the Arctic converge with the warm air masses from the tropical regions, the result is either heavy rains or major snow storms, depending on the temperature and sustained velocity of wind currents of the cold and warm air. The Gulf Stream flow pattern does show changes in our weather patterns. Unusual warm winter weather is occurring in the Oregon coastal region for several years and substantial amounts of rain is replacing snowfall during winter months. Many years ago, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were promoted to replace ozone-damaging hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and now is closing the Antarctic ozone hole. HFC-134a can trap 3,400 times more heat in the atmosphere than CO2, and now HFCs are contributing to changes into warmer temperatures and climate, and for melting the ice shelves in the Antarctic. CO2 is now being used as the best refrigerant. Large amounts of global permafrost and frozen methane are being thawed on the ocean floor. Global permafrost and methane amount to approximately 950 billion to 1.5 trillion tons. Present annual methane emissions are estimated at about 150-250 million tons. These emissions contribute to climate changes by further warming the oceans and melting the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. If or when the melting ice raises the ocean sea levels by 4-6 feet, then large remaining ice shelves could be forced to rise and float, break up and separate from the sediment structure, and then disintegrate. If this were to happen, then this would no doubt be a climate catastrophe. The UN-International Panel on Climate Change is correct in being alarmed and to plan for taking appropriate measures in the global interest. Solutions are being worked on, and the Deniers of Global Warming and Climate Change are simply Dimwits. The National Snow and Ice Data Center shows Arctic sea ice for January 2010 averaged 13.78 million square kilometers (5.32 million square miles). This was 1.08 million square kilometers (417,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average for January. NASA satellite shows that Antarctica has been losing more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice since 2002, and is accelerating. NASA/German Aerospace suggests that since 2006 there has been more ice loss from East Antarctica than previously thought. Please see website: www.MZ-Energy.com “Scientists with Oregon State University and the State Geology and Mineral Industries Department believe that not only is the sea level rising, but they have recently determined that maximum wave heights – those mammoth waves that occur offshore during the winter months – have risen dramatically from a previously estimated 33 feet to as much as 46 feet. Possible causes might be changes in storm tracks, higher winds, more intense winter storms, or other factors. These probably are related to global warming, but it could also be involved with periodic climate fluctuations . . . and our wave records are sufficiently short that we can’t be certain yet. But what is clear (is) the waves are getting larger. And they are taking their toll on the coastline. There was tremendous erosion and 492 feet (150 meters) of beach along the shoreline has disappeared in recent years” at two towns along the Oregon north coast. This is elementary and hardly science, and only shows of how befuddled and dishonest the news media and greedy corporations have become. Denials of global climate changes and the denials of finite fossil fuel depletion (consumption) are outright lunacy. All the shouting, screaming, lying, faking and antics will not change the obvious natural environmental consequences caused by human consumption and/or abuse. The real problem usually involves maximum exploitation and greed by corporations or entire industries, because their only aim is to maximize profits. Then the corporations demand bailouts from the government and from the overburdened American citizens in order to stay in business, just like the Nuclear Power Industry, and to pay for their generated, hazardous nuclear waste disposal. Now the Nuclear Power Industry wants to expand their operations, which continuously increases the risks of nuclear war and more human health concerns. The insurance companies are reluctant to take on $10 to $20+ billion of unknown liab Add Your Comment To post a comment on this story, enter your screen name and email address then click "Add Comment." Your email address will not be displayed. 522 Recommend | 1 Comments

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