Comments on: CEI Scholar at Kentucky Coal Rally http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/08/04/cei-scholar-at-kentucky-coal-rally/ Climate Change News & Analysis Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Bob R Geologist, Tucson, AZhttp://www.globalwarming.org/2009/08/04/cei-scholar-at-kentucky-coal-rally/comment-page-1/#comment-28390 Bob R Geologist, Tucson, AZ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:51:06 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=4362#comment-28390 I believe the Institute cited above should have been "Competitive Enterprise Institute." Bob R I believe the Institute cited above should have been “Competitive Enterprise Institute.” Bob R

]]> By: Bob R Geologist, Tuchttp://www.globalwarming.org/2009/08/04/cei-scholar-at-kentucky-coal-rally/comment-page-1/#comment-28389 Bob R Geologist, Tuc Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:43:30 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=4362#comment-28389 I spent the final 1/3 of my career locating and acquiring coal reserves for oil companies and electrical generating companies. I am PO'd about it because this whole world wide effort (excepting China, India and Russia)are politically fixiated on taking drastic measures to curb carbon dioxide. In their ignorance of geologic processes they are prepared to bleed every possible tax dollar out of our citizenry and destroy our economy in the expectation they can cure AGW because it is a danger to mankind. A marvelous and worthy effort if it were true, and possible. I have been convinced ever since Kyoto that 1)there is no scientific proof whatever, even after expending over $30 billion in research (Competitive Maintenance Institute). 2)I am convinced as a geologist that during the Mesozoic, the Earth underwent it's longest warm spell 150my. CO2 out-gased from the warm oceans to as much as 20 times todays value. Life thrived and adapted. I know of no extinction events until the large meteor strike off the tip of the Yucatan Pennensula 65my ago. Continental drift has a major long range effect on climates (50 - 100 million yrs) and probably our planetary system's orbital position (Svendsmark) controlls our ice ages. Ocean currents, when our planetary positions are favorable allow warming at our poles. About 50my ago our planet's temperature began a slow decline until the polar regions iced up 14my ago. 1.75my years ago the cyclic ice ages of the Pleistocene period began in N. America, Europe and Asia. In America we have just emerged from our 5th Ice Age and are now in what is likely, just another Interglacial Period. As long as we have lots of ice in our polar regions, we are mostly just marking time until another ice age. Climate graphs of this inter- glacial (The Holocene) appear like normal weather though starting from a lower base line. Weather alarmists still are warning of an uprecedented warmup at this time, oblivious to, or desperately trying to avoud the fact that the world hasn't had a warmer year since the beginning of the 21sr century! Lying comes easy for Religious fanatics and that is what we skeptics have to endure. I spent the final 1/3 of my career locating and acquiring coal reserves for oil companies and electrical generating companies. I am PO'd about it because this whole world wide effort (excepting China, India and Russia)are politically fixiated on taking drastic measures to curb carbon dioxide. In their ignorance of geologic processes they are prepared to bleed every possible tax dollar out of our citizenry and destroy our economy in the expectation they can cure AGW because it is a danger to mankind. A marvelous and worthy effort if it were true, and possible. I have been convinced ever since Kyoto that 1)there is no scientific proof whatever, even after expending over $30 billion in research (Competitive Maintenance Institute). 2)I am convinced as a geologist that during

the Mesozoic, the Earth underwent it's longest warm spell 150my. CO2

out-gased from the warm oceans to as much as 20 times todays value.

Life thrived and adapted. I know of no extinction events until the large meteor strike off the tip of the Yucatan Pennensula 65my ago. Continental drift has a major long range effect on climates (50 – 100 million yrs) and probably our planetary system's orbital position (Svendsmark) controlls our ice ages. Ocean currents, when our planetary positions are favorable allow warming at our poles. About 50my ago our planet's temperature began a slow decline until the polar regions iced up 14my ago. 1.75my years ago the cyclic ice ages of the Pleistocene period began in N. America, Europe and Asia. In America we have just emerged from our 5th Ice Age and are now in what is likely, just another Interglacial Period. As long as we have lots of ice in our polar regions, we are mostly just marking time until another ice age. Climate graphs of this inter- glacial (The Holocene) appear like normal weather though starting from a lower base line. Weather alarmists still are warning of an uprecedented warmup at this time, oblivious to, or desperately trying to avoud the fact that the world hasn't had a warmer year since the beginning of the 21sr century! Lying comes easy for Religious fanatics and that is what we skeptics have to endure.

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