What’s The Right Numbers?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
When you are through reading this post, if you were to walk outside and examine the air, could you identify the amount of carbon or other green house gases which are present at your location? Yet, you can stay at your computer and click on this connection and be able to see the amounts of carbon produced throughout the world and also on a per capita basis going back to 1950.
Our President is telling the world that we are going to cut our carbon emissions by a specific percent and there is legislation being worked on in the U.S. Senate to set up a tax structure on energy with a derivative-trading system as a means of creating a pretend economy for further enhancement of the global warming industry. All this emphasis on carbon (and other green house gas emissions) is based on what I think are calculations of what is being released as opposed to what levels are actually present. I really don’t know what amounts that are present at specific locations or how they are determined…all we ever hear about is the incredible amounts (in millions of tons) and the rate of the increases being emitted.
We’re also told that the earth is warming with computer models (that have been challenged on the basis of creditability for the way input data might be more likely to be accepted for inclusion on the basis of the output results which substantiate the theory) when we’re not really certain what the number might mean. The crisis is driven by the hype over the rate of increase that the models suggest, even though we’re not certain whether there is a temperature level that’s good or bad. In spite of the concerns over melting ice caps and low-lying coastal areas being flooded by the higher water levels of the oceans, historic data tells us that warmer temperatures have existed in the past. Given our still being here, the evidence of those instances have to make us wonder about the Armageddon conditions we’re being told are so dire that we should surrender ourselves to greater national and international government controls.
The industry of worry over global warming might want to focus on coming up with some way for individual empowerment, allowing us to measure for ourselves the amount of carbon (and other green house gas emissions) are present in the air where we are – or would that give us false impressions of the impending doom like we see when we rely on thermometers that tell us the temperatures (weather) as opposed to the computer models that tell us the planet is warming (climate).
Instead of the debate being based on how correct the experts are and why those who doubt are so wrong, the focus should be shifted to basic facts that help us to understand and see for ourselves how much carbon (and other green house gas emissions) are present where we are so we can see if the actual levels go up or go down when different actions are taken. Just being told this information by the people who have the most at stake to persuade us to believe could be improved.
When you are through reading this post, if you were to walk outside and examine the air, could you identify the amount of carbon or other green house gases which are present at your location? Yet, you can stay at your computer and click on this connection and be able to see the amounts of carbon produced throughout the world and also on a per capita basis going back to 1950.
Our President is telling the world that we are going to cut our carbon emissions by a specific percent and there is legislation being worked on in the U.S. Senate to set up a tax structure on energy with a derivative-trading system as a means of creating a pretend economy for further enhancement of the global warming industry. All this emphasis on carbon (and other green house gas emissions) is based on what I think are calculations of what is being released as opposed to what levels are actually present. I really don’t know what amounts that are present at specific locations or how they are determined…all we ever hear about is the incredible amounts (in millions of tons) and the rate of the increases being emitted.
We’re also told that the earth is warming with computer models (that have been challenged on the basis of creditability for the way input data might be more likely to be accepted for inclusion on the basis of the output results which substantiate the theory) when we’re not really certain what the number might mean. The crisis is driven by the hype over the rate of increase that the models suggest, even though we’re not certain whether there is a temperature level that’s good or bad. In spite of the concerns over melting ice caps and low-lying coastal areas being flooded by the higher water levels of the oceans, historic data tells us that warmer temperatures have existed in the past. Given our still being here, the evidence of those instances have to make us wonder about the Armageddon conditions we’re being told are so dire that we should surrender ourselves to greater national and international government controls.
The industry of worry over global warming might want to focus on coming up with some way for individual empowerment, allowing us to measure for ourselves the amount of carbon (and other green house gas emissions) are present in the air where we are – or would that give us false impressions of the impending doom like we see when we rely on thermometers that tell us the temperatures (weather) as opposed to the computer models that tell us the planet is warming (climate).
Instead of the debate being based on how correct the experts are and why those who doubt are so wrong, the focus should be shifted to basic facts that help us to understand and see for ourselves how much carbon (and other green house gas emissions) are present where we are so we can see if the actual levels go up or go down when different actions are taken. Just being told this information by the people who have the most at stake to persuade us to believe could be improved.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 1/15/2010 5:43 AM 
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Cap and Trade Carbon and Green House Emission Levels Climate Change
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Cap and Trade Carbon and Green House Emission Levels Climate Change
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