Is global warming just lots of hot air?




The purpose of this letter is not to trash Mr. Jean-Pierre Williams and his letter of Nov. 12 about sunspots and global warming. As I read Mr. Williams’ well-written letter it reminded me of myself accepting others’ viewpoints regarding something I know nothing about without doing my own research to arrive at my own conclusions.

About a year ago I attended a reunion of a club I was active in during my college days. One of my old acquaintances, a Cal Tech graduate named Freeman Hall, was retired from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), an organization he had spent over 30 years with.

He told me that the earth goes through warming and cooling trends every 1,500 years or so that are caused by the sun’s magnetosphere (magnetic field) and sunspots that occur from time to time. He told me that the current warming trend actually began around 1850, from study of the Antarctic ice cores which makes it very apparent.

I furthered questioned him about man’s activities, putting CO2 into the atmosphere and he told me that temperate leads CO2 by around 200 years. In other words, temperature increase must occur before CO2 generates. He told me that as the ocean heats up, only a few degrees CO2 will be generated and that by and large, the CO2 comes mainly from the ocean, not the puny activities of man. In other words, the CO2 doesn’t cause the warming, it follows the warming. He also told me that the earth’s temperature on the average over the past 11 years has generally remained constant.

In the Nov. 2 issue of The Na
tional Review
magazine I subscribe to, I received a DVD titled “Unstoppable Solar Cycles, the Real Story of Greenland.” According to the DVD, Greenland didn’t always have a glacial covering. On the contrary, it was covered by green fir trees and other foliage and around the end of the 15th century it started to get so cold the Vikings couldn’t live there any longer.

Both the DVD and my friend Mr. Hall suggest that data currently being released has been doctored (slanted to exacerbate) the global warming theory. It appears that the global warming hysteria is most probably just that—hysteria.
John deBrauwere

Agoura Hills




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