What happens CO2 keeps rising but the Earth cools?
The Earth is cooling, and in the next few years it will cool even more. Of course the media will point to hot spots, but never cold spots. Earth cooling? Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_since_1880
2006 was colder than 2005.
2007 was colder than 2006.
2008 was colder than 2007.
2009 in on track to be colder than 2008.
Yet CO2 emissions are INCREASING every year? How is this possible?
Well, because the Earth's temperature has nothing to do with CO2 emissions.
The temperature of the Earth is influenced by the sun. I know, this is news to you. Fluctuations in the solar output mean we have temperature changes on Earth.
The solar output of the sun has been on a hundred-year high for the past 10-15 years or so; this is now subsiding and we are getting the opposite effect: very low sunspots.
http://ncwatch.typepad.com/dalton_minimum_returns/
The Earth's 2nd hottest decade was NOT the 1990's. It was the 1940's. How did we have a hot 1940's, then a relatively cold 1970's, if CO2 emissions were relatively linearly increasing?
Well, because solar activity was at a relative minimum in the 1970's, and relatively high in the 1940's.
You can see solar output here:
http://ncwatch.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451e28a69e201156f88e1e6970c-pi
And the actual increase of solar energy from the sun:
http://ncwatch.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451e28a69e2011570b57a35970b-pi
And historical temps here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.svg
Clearly you can see the temps oscillate up and down every 11 years or so with the solar cycle, which is on average every 11 years but is really 9-14 years.
You want a research paper? Read this:
http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/2007JD008437.pdf
Their conclusion after researching modern and historical solar output to Earth's temperature:
"[42] In conclusion, if we assume that the latest temperature
and TSI secular reconstructions, WANG2005 and
MOBERG05, are accurate, we are forced to conclude that
solar changes significantly alter climate, and that the climate
system responds relatively slowly to such changes with a
time constant between 6 and 12 a. This would suggest
that the large-scale computer models of climate could be
significantly improved by adding additional Sun-climate
coupling mechanisms."
Gosh, somebody better tell Al Gore that the science might not be closed.
So my question is this: When the Earth cools naturally, yet CO2 increases, what will be the explanation from environmentalists? You can bet that climate change fanatics screaming about Armageddon will be as quiet as Y2K fanatics screaming about Armageddon on 1/2/2000. Or Avian Bird Flu fanatics screaming about Armageddon. Very, very quiet.
I'm sure they will say something like "well, even though we were completely wrong, at least we did get good conservation efforts underway" or something to that effect. There will be no apology from them.
But that doesn't mean WE need to be quiet on how wrong they were, and why efforts like cap-and-trade need to be stopped dead. Thankfully we never signed Kyoto.
What will we learn? Well, perhaps we will learn not to trust liberals/socialists bent on controlling the economy from the green perspective. Alinsky said to use the ruse of the "fight against pollution" to regulate the economy, and that was back in 1971.
