Paradoxum

I promised a final review of Unstoppable Global Warmig: Every 1,500 Years, and a review I shall deliver, however briefly.

Singer and Avery offered a well documented, heavily researched, and easily read analysis of the global warming issue.

Their conclusion: Yes, the earth is currently warming, however so slightly. No, man is not the cause of this warming. Rather, it is dependent upon 1,500 year climate cycles embedded within larger ice-age and non-ice-age shifts (which take millions of years, according to the authors). All of which is dependent upon the amount of the sun’s radiance hitting the earth, which in turn varies upon the amount of solar winds intercepting said radiation. (Note: this is the summary of a layman, and is dramatically over simplistic.) This is supported by the analysis of literally hundreds of studies.

Accompanying the scientific support of the 1,500 year cycle and refutation of the greenhouse gas theory, Singer and Avery include a poignant and absolutely necessary look at the implications of acting upon the greenhouse gas theory. Truth in this issue is not a matter of simply proving one’s point, of social/political standing, or of a voting platform, but one of life and death importance.

This being a heavily scientific book, perhaps “easily read” was an exaggeration. Rather, “well written” would suitably describe this readable, yet challenging book.

The authors, while being experts in the field of global climate studies, are not devoid of a sense of humor, one at which greenhouse gas theorists would certainly take issue.

Overall, this book certainly deserves the 79 five-star ratings (out of 117 reviews) this book received on amazon.com. The Amazon reviewer Crosslands sums up my personal opinion of this work well:

Pseudoscientists and others with a vested interest in controlling the global economy by use of the global warming hoax will not like this work. However informed readers concerned with human welfare and human progress will find this book invaluable. This book should be read by all Amercians and really by everone else in the world.

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http://www.gfa.org/flood-relief-2007.

According to RTE News, this past July Condoleezza Rice unveiled a plan for the United States to give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next ten years. That is a 25% increase to the last deal. This deal was just signed, as RTE describes:

At a signing ceremony in Jerusalem, US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns pledged the US would help Israel maintain a military advantage over its regional foes.

Mr Burns said the US considers the defence aid funding to be an investment in long-term peace.

I am glad to see Rice and the State Department taking useful and pragmatic steps towards peace in the Middle East. I think the deal is a good one: we’ve got the cash, not let’s give it to someone who will use it effectively towards our goal – peace.

If there is one thing Israel knows, it is turmoil within and around its borders, and is thus no stranger to using force when it has to. The difference between Israeli Middle East intervention and that of the United States, is that Israel’s existence depends upon their success. That is quite the motivator.

RTE continued:

[It] Is part of a new military pact with US allies in the region aimed at countering the ‘negative influences’ of al-Qaeda, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and enemies in Iran and Syria.

Virginian Senator George Allen has an article on Townhall.com entitled Reagen Tax Cuts Lifted Americans.

It is a good, brief, article on the basics of conservative economics and its benefits, as displayed in Reagan’s 1981 25% tax cut. It is well founded in both theory and statistics. While the whole article is worth reading, here a notable excerpt:

What economic object lessons can be learned from Ronald Reagan’s successful leadership for a more free, competitive, and prosperous America? Answer: The basic but incontrovertible principle that, with less taxation and less regulation, American enterprise flourishes. And while it is often wrongly argued that such policies deprive the federal government of needed revenues, under President Reagan’s tax policy the federal government tax revenue doubled from $500 billion to $1 trillion due to increased economic growth. Our American families, from Virginia Beach to Sioux City to Long Beach, prospered the most from these tax cuts; every income quintile gained income.

Allen’s call to action:

Fellow Americans we must unite for this proven vision of trusting free people to keep America the best place to live, learn, work and raise a family.

Agreed.

I’ve begun to read Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery. Thus far it has been a good and informative read. I will post a book review when I finish.

While adamantly opposed to the man-made global warming theory (and it is only a theory), Singer and Avery acknowledge that the world is indeed on a moderate warming trend. The causes of this warming, and its potential effects, is where Singer and Avery add much clarification – or, truth instead of propaganda, real science instead of misinformation, &c. One such example is “Five Reasons Not to Fear Famine During Global Warming.”

Briefly summarized, the five points are:

1 – History. During both the Roman Warming and the Medieval Warming, society flourished rather than perished. Why? Because “warming climates provided more of the things plants love: sunlight, rainfall, and longer growing seasons,” while also limiting “things plants hate: late spring frosts and early fall frosts that shorten the growing season and hailstorms that destroy fields of crops.”

2 – Science. Sunshine, rainfall, and CO2 levels are all on the rise. It is a fact of science that these are all good for plants. Indeed, increased CO2 levels act as fertilizer for plants.

3 – Farming Technology. Through fertilizers, irrigation, insecticides, fungicides, crop rotation, stronger disease-resistant seeds, crops today are much less susceptible to failure as in recent years. Crops are higher yielding and more sustainable. Technology is to thank – like the development of the Haber-Bosch Process which, using fossil fuels (oh my!) takes nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer. This fertilizer greatly increases crop yields.

4 – The Future and Biotechnology. Much is being done to produce strands of wheat, rice, and potatoes that, through biotechnology, are resistant to the diseases that kill them most.

5 – Modern Transportation. Should certain areas experience want, the world is more than capable of transporting its surplus to those areas.

A few comments of my own on the above:

If only I could take every dollar devoted to preventing man-made global warming, and place it toward the research and development of farming technology and biotechnology I would!

I feeling brash right now (hence the above), so I will also say that I wish we would all stop buying “organic” groceries. Doing so is promoting nothing but inefficient use of land. Organic farming has much lower yields, and thus takes up more land – land that could be wild. It is a waste. Either save the extra money you would have spent on the “organic” stuff, or donate to herbicide, insecticide, fungicide research. These researchers are continually working on developing natural herbicides, safer chemicals, &c.

Lastly, in regards to point five: I agree. Remember the Berlin Airlift? After WWII, when Berlin was divided between the East and the West, the free and the communist, the Russians blockaded the West, which was deep in Communist territory. What did the Allies do? Simply flew supplies in. At the height of the airlift, April 16, 1949, a flight landed every minute in Berlin. Indeed, the world is capable of such transportation of goods. However, how can one forget Africa? Why isn’t such a massive effort being made to feed these millions? I recognize that these two situations aren’t exactly comparable, but my point remains nonetheless: we are capable of such transportation when we choose to be.