It is tempting to see the great push for renewable energy as a fair-weather phenomenon. The recent performance of Britain’s wind farms is a case in point. For much of this January, they were operating at about 10 per cent of their rated capacity. That should be no surprise, given that periods of severe cold (or heat) coincide with lack of wind. Adding insult to injury, low energy production doesn’t help when a utility is asked to deliver power to home owners and industry during a high demand period of deep winter cold. Cold residential customers and insufficient energy supply to meet industrial demand at the factories and offices where they work is really poor business practice.

The electrical energy companies must also run at a profit to stay in business. Expending precious resources to build capricious generating capacity that has 3 times higher production costs than conventional sources is not good business either.

At the same time, the falsely claimed ‘consensus’ on Man Made Global Warming is crumbling under the weight of scientific data that soundly refutes it. It would be abysmal business practice to waste corporate and taxpayer money on a nonproblem supported by a soundly demonstrated false premise!

An important point to remember in any discussion about “Global Warming” is that the planet has been naturally warming for the last 10,000 years, when the last glacial period came to an end. Global warming is a natural phenomena. That is, until the planet naturally starts cooling again and enters the next glacial period. That happens on average just about every 10,000 years. Yes, that’s right. We could enter into the next glacial epic anytime in the next 1000 years or so.

With that in mind, what are the 4 key points that Man Made Global Warming advocates must prove to validate their hypothesis?

1. MMGW Argument: The concensus of all of the climate models and the United Nations - InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN-IPCC) report is that man made global warming will cause the troposphere to get warmer. The additions of ‘man made’ CO2 to the atmosphere will ‘trap heat’ causing the troposphere (about 6 miles up) to get warmer. This is purported to be the inescapable signature of man made global warming. Prove It! Show me the data!

The troposphere hasn’t and isn’t getting warmer. Direct measurement using weather balloons and indirect measurements using satellites show consistently that it isn’t. The ‘signature’ is missing. The Global Warming Climate Modelers have no explanation to this lack of ‘heating’. They call it the ‘missing heat’, rather than admitting that their climate models are invalid.

1. MMGW Argument: Man Made CO2 is an ever increasing ‘green house gas’ that causes global warming. Prove It! To prove ‘causation’, CO2 concentrations must historically ‘lead’ or increase before atmospheric heating.

Ice core data from Greenland and Antartica consistently show that throughout glacial epic after glacial epic, CO2 levels began to rise about 800 years after global temperatures started to rise. The CO2 didn’t cause global warming. It was (and is) exactly the opposite. Warming caused atmospheric CO2 gas to increase! This is because cold water can absorb much more CO2 than warm water. As the seas got warmer, the dissolved CO2 was emitted as CO2 gas into the atmosphere and eventually trapped in the snow/ice layers of the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers. If CO2 really was a significant green house gas, global warming would have caused a ‘runaway’ warming of the atmosphere after the 1st glacial epic ended. We would never have had repeated glacial epics. Something other than CO2 caused the planet to warm up, again, and again, and again, and again…naturally after each glacial cycle.

1. MMGW Argument: The global temperature has increased since 1979, in direct correspondence with increasing CO2 levels. Prove It!

Satellites have circled the earth for the last 30 years, measuring land and sea surface temperatures with great precision, reliability, and repeatability. They show no increase in ‘global temperature’ since 1999. In fact, a small cooling trend is becoming apparent as each year passes since 2002. At the same time, man has continued to add CO2 gas steadily to the atmosphere. If CO2 really is a significant ‘green house gas’, the planet should have continued to get warmer. It proves that increasing CO2 does not cause the planet to get warmer. The Global Warming Climate Modelers have no explanation for this reversal of trend. Something other than CO2 is causing our planet to warm and cool, naturally.

1. MMGW Argument: CO2 gas is a known absorber of thermal radiation. It absorbs long wave radiation and causes the atmosphere to get warmer. Prove That It Really Causes The Atmosphere To Get Warmer!

Yes, CO2 is a known absorber of thermal radiation, but it absorbs in a relatively narrow band of the spectrum. The amount of CO2 that is now in the atmosphere (0.035% or about 350 parts CO2 per million parts of the other atmosphere gases like O2, N2, H20, etc.) is very close to the absorption ‘saturation point’. This means that adding more CO2 molecules doesn’t cause more ‘heat absorption’. The added molecules of CO2 absorb nothing because all of the radiation in that narrow part of the spectrum has already been absorbed. This narrow band of the spectrum that CO2 absorbs in is also part of a much wider spectrum band that water vapor absorbs thermal radiation in. Since water vapor is present in much higher concentrations than CO2 and absorbs thermal radiation from the narrow CO2 absorption band as well as a much wider portion of the spectrum, it is water vapor that is the really significant green house gas, naturally!

Any one of these 4 proven facts is sufficient to refute the hypothesis of Man Made Global Warming. Combined, they completely demolish it.