CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming.
Here we go again, ok for the newbies, yes I believe the climate is changing, but guess what, from day one, millions of years ago, the climate has changed each and every day, from day to day, from hour to hour, it is ALWAYS changing.
Now, given that, we have the folks that say our CO2 emissions are causing the atmosphere to heat up, (greenhouse gasses) and that all the ice will melt, that will cause sea level to increase, cities if not nations to flood. Well like Chad Myers above, I would call that pretty arrogant. I haven’t seen the complete data, but then that is probably because no one has the complete data. I’ve seen little or nothing that includes effects from outside of our planet, whether it be solar or cosmic. I’ve seen little or nothing that takes into account the effects of the earth itself giving off greenhouse gasses or even other living creatures for that matter. What I have seen are politicians, pointing to their scientists (note Chad Myers isn’t one of them) and saying we must act now, and then once the panic and fear has taken root then they want to put into place things like the Kyoto protocol or Cap and Trade Policies all of which are nothing more than shell games, to control and take money and power.
Dr. Jay Lehr, an expert on environmental policy, told “Lou Dobbs Tonight” viewers you can detect subtle patterns over recorded history, but that dates back to the 13th Century.
“If we go back really, in recorded human history, in the 13th Century, we were probably 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now and it was a very prosperous time for mankind,” Lehr said. “If go back to the Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We’ve been warming out of that cold spell from the Revolutionary War period and now we’re back into a cooling cycle.”
Lehr suggested the earth is presently entering a cooling cycle – a result of nature, not man.
“The last 10 years have been quite cool,” Lehr continued. “And right now, I think we’re going into cooling rather than warming and that should be a much greater concern for humankind. But, all we can do is adapt. It is the sun that does it, not man.”
Lehr is a senior fellow and science director of The Heartland Institute, an organization that will be holding the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York March 8-10.
So this seems to lean more toward what we’ve seen more recently, much tamer hurricane seasons, now getting colder sooner across the nation not just in the Gulf Stream Zone, early snows, some glaciers are actually increasing in size (gasp!)
The last section of the article related to someone that spoke his opinion but the next day recanted:
Another CNN meteorologist attacked the concept that man is somehow responsible for changes in climate last year. Rob Marciano charged Al Gore’s 2006 movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” had some inaccuracies.
“There are definitely some inaccuracies,” Marciano said during the Oct. 4, 2007 broadcast of CNN’s “American Morning.” “The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming.”
Marciano also said that, “global warming does not conclusively cause stronger hurricanes like we’ve seen,” pointing out that “by the end of this century we might get about a 5 percent increase.”
His comments drew a strong response and he recanted the next day saying “the globe is getting warmer and humans are the likely the main cause of it.”
So it sounds like someone told Rob Marciano he should perhaps rethink his thoughts? At least on the surface that’s what it looks like to me. Kind of like:
