[Rhodes22-list] TGGW

[Bud]

Bob,
  similarly, I wonder if anyone has ever calculated the amount of heat 
energy given off by a single hurricane.

-Bud

john Belanger wrote:

>may sound crazy but has anyone ever examined the effect on global warming and pollution from the use of firearms?
>
>Bob Keller <r22yankeeclipper at hotmail.com> wrote:  Just my made-up acronym for "Thank God for Global Warming" since I am 
>planning to go sailing the next two days and the temps will be 60 tomorrow 
>and 70 on Thursday...
>
>Here's some light reading:
>
>UN Report Pours 'Cold Water' on Global Warming, Senator Says
>By Randy Hall
>CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
>December 12, 2006
>
>(CNSNews.com) - A United Nations study due for release early next year will 
>reportedly lower estimates of mankind's impact on the earth's climate by 25 
>percent, a development a leading climate change skeptic in the U.S. Senate 
>says will pour "cold water" on "global warming alarmism."
>
>"We are all skeptics now," Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. 
>Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, said in response to media leaks 
>on a report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 
>which is set to be published next February.
>
>London's Telegraph reported Sunday that the IPCC draft report reduces its 
>overall estimate of the human impact on global warming by one-fourth, and 
>halves its predictions for rises in sea-level by 2100.
>
>The IPCC's new figures are attributed to "a refinement due to better data on 
>how climate works."
>
>The panel's report "says that the overall human effect on global warming 
>since the industrial revolution is less than had been thought, due to the 
>unexpected levels of cooling caused by aerosol sprays, which reflect heat 
>from the sun," the paper said.
>
>Furthermore, "large amounts of heat have been absorbed by the oceans, 
>masking the warming effect."
>
>Copies of the document, which was sent by the IPCC to climate experts and 
>participating governments on Oct. 28, were obtained by several news 
>organizations in Britain.
>
>"Climate science is always going through these 'refinements,'" Inhofe said 
>in a statement. "The media has alternated between four separate global 
>cooling and warming scares since 1895," including "the erroneous prediction 
>of a coming ice age in the 1970s," he said.
>
>"Each climate scare eventually faded away due to similar 'refinements due to 
>better data,'" Inhofe said.
>
>That global warming alarmism was "more hype than fact" should not surprise 
>those who have heard the more than 10 speeches on climate change Inhofe has 
>given, the senator said.
>
>"Even the U.N. appears to now be sobering up and dousing much-needed cold 
>water on the global warming alarmism promoted by much of the mainstream 
>media, Hollywood, NASA scientist James Hansen and former Vice President Al 
>Gore," Inhofe added.
>
>"Eventually, even the peddlers of climate alarmism will have to concede that 
>the hoopla over man-made catastrophic global warming and the proposed 
>solutions like the costly and ineffective Kyoto Protocol will prove to be 
>one of the history's most misguided concerns."
>
>However, despite the IPCC's reported reassessment, according to the Sunday 
>Telegraph, the U.N. body maintains that "there can be little doubt that 
>humans are responsible for warming the planet."
>
>It said the IPCC report also "warns that carbon dioxide emissions have risen 
>during the past five years by three percent, well above the 0.4 percent a 
>year average of the previous two decades."
>
>"The authors also state that the climate is almost certain to warm by at 
>least 1.5 C during the next 100 years," the Telegraph said.
>
>While calls seeking response from representatives of the IPCC were not 
>returned by press time, according to the IPCC website a report compilation 
>process is still underway, the deadline for submitting comments regarding 
>the final draft having only passed on Friday, Dec. 8.
>
>Earlier this year, IPCC Secretary Renate Christ issued a press release 
>cautioning members of the media against reporting "findings" in the study 
>until it had been finalized by the working group in 2007.
>
>"In wake of several premature reports that have appeared recently in the 
>media concerning 'findings'" from the IPCC, Christ said at the time the 
>process leading up to the 2007 release was "long, complicated and far from 
>complete."
>
>Nevertheless, the Telegraph reported that "one leading U.K. climate 
>scientist, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity surrounding the 
>report before it is published, said: 'The bottom line is that the climate is 
>still warming while our greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated, so we are 
>storing up problems for ourselves in the future.'"
>
>Inhofe saw a different "bottom line" in the leaked information, however.
>
>"With the continued scientific demise of man-made catastrophic global 
>warming fears, the environmentalists, publicity- and grant-seeking 
>scientists and many in the media may now have to find another dubious 
>environmental doomsday cause to scare the public and policymakers," Inhofe 
>said.
>
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