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S
OME
F
UNDAMENTALS OF
G
LOBAL
W
ARMING
&
 
E
CONOMICS
 
The age in which we are living is fraught with significant misconceptions, however, in myopinion, none are more egregious than the subject of this discussion. Improper handling of matters related to these issues has the potential to bring the United States of America to its
“business knees
,
” and I suggest to you that is exactly where we are headed, IF we allow thecurrent “settled science” to dominate. I have every intention, along with thousands of other 
scientists, to make sure that the real science is allowed to come loudly and clearly to the forefront.
You have been taught by certain entities that “carbon” and “fossil
-
fuel” are bad components that
must be eliminated from our energy mix. You have been told that if we
don’t take immediate
action to divert those energy
sources related to those “bad”
materials, the earth will suffercatastrophic climate change.I have two main points I feel compelled to leave with you.
Point one:
Carbon dioxide (CO
2
) is not a pollutant. I offer as evidence this listing of actualpollutants per the website of the EPA:Aerosols, Asbestos, Carbon Monoxide, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Criteria Air Pollutants,Ground Level Ozone, Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs),Lead, Mercury, Methane, Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Particulate Matter (PM), Propellants, Radon,Refrigerants, Substitutes, Sulfur Oxides (SO2), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).Notice that CO
2
is nowhere to be found in that list.Yet, we have a decision from the United States Supreme Court (MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL.,PETITIONERS v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ET AL.) dated April 2, 2007,
which charged the EPA with the responsibility to determine whether or not “Greenhouse Gases”
cause pollution, with particular focus on automobile tailpipe emissions.Since the Supreme Court ruling, (which was 5-4, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia,
Thomas and Alito strongly dissenting), the new administration’s EPA has taken it upon itself 
to
find that the group of greenhouse gases, unless strenuously controlled, will cause “endangerment”
to mankind. I strongly disagree.
Greenhouse gas “pollutants” include water vapor, by far the dominant contributor, at about 95%
of the greenhouse mix, CO
2
at about 3.5%, others less than 1%, and methane about 0.5%.
Methane and some of the “others” do show up in the EPA’s list of actual pollutants.
Point two:
Global temperature, melting of the glaciers, and rising sea level are all related toperfectly natural phenomena, and I am including data below to support this fact. This is nottheoretical, modeled expectation. These facts are tied to data from around the globe, and cannotbe ignored or passed of as propaganda.The global temperature has been measured since around 174
0, but we can use “proxies”
to furtherextrapolate aspects of the climate record. The figure below describes, with very strong supportfrom the earth historical record, temperatures dating back to around 1200 BCE.
 
 
Figure 1: Surface temperatures in the Sargasso Sea, a 2 million square mile region of the AtlanticOcean, with time resolution of 50 to 100 years and ending in 1975, as determined by isotope ratios ofmarine organism remains in sediment at the bottom of the sea (3). The horizontal line is the averagetemperature for this 3,000-year period. The Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Optimum werenaturally occurring, extended intervals of climate departures from the mean. A value of 0.25 °C,which is the change in Sargasso Sea temperature between 1975 and2006, has been added to the1975 data in order to provide a 2006 temperature value.
 
One of the fundamental points to be drawn from this figure is the FACT that earth’s temperaturehas been gradually increasing since the end of the “Little Ice age.
We are now at about the placewhere we match the 3000-year average, about 4 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than conditions atabout 1000 BCE.
The next figure below speaks to the misconception that “human
-
induced global warming” is
responsible for the melting of the glaciers. Again, bear in mind that global temperatures began amarked increase around 1700 CE.
The introduction of fossil fuels into man’s energy mix is not responsible for the advance / retreat
of glaciers. This natural process will continue to fluctuate with routine global cycles.One other major point that is continually emphasized is that human-induced CO
2
is the primarydriver of the natural temperature increase we are experiencing. That contention is simply notsupported by the data.There is also the belief that the uptrend of CO
2
concentration in our atmosphere, currently around385 parts per million (ppm), or about 0.04%, is also mostly, if not exclusively, due to human-induced activity. I would agree that human activity, including agriculture, transportation andpower generation from a variety of sources contributes somewhat to the overall mix, but to
suggest that human activity dominates the concentration is ludicrous. Here’s a calculation: The
CO
2
 
fraction of the greenhouse is about 3.5%. Man’s contribution to that number is estimated at
5% of the 3.5%, or less than 0.2%. That translates to between 6-7 ppm due to human activity.
 
 
Figure 2: Average length of 169 glaciers from 1700 to 2000 (4). The principal source of meltenergy is solar radiation. Variations in glacier mass and lengthare primarily due totemperature and precipitation (5,6). This melting trend lags thetemperature in crease byabout 20 years, so it pre dates the 6-fold in crease in hydrocarbon use (7) even more thanshown in the figure. Hydrocarbon use could not have caused this shortening trend.
 
Further support of sea-ice conditions is presented below, actual data from 1978
 – 
2009.
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