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The harsh realities of global warming

Friday, November 9 at 12:00 PM

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By Frosty Wooldridge

A man from Castle Rock agreed today in the RMN ‘letters section’ on the ‘hoax’ of global warming as perpetrated by former Vice President Al Gore.

The writer said, “The climate changes we see today are but pinpricks in the history of the Earth.”

Radio jock Mike Rosen, a pretend-intellectual, a man who speaks and writes before researching what he’s addressing, stands nostril deep in his own uninformed opinions.

I lived in Antarctica 10 years ago working with top scientists from around the world. I wrote a book: “An Extreme Encounter: Antarctica” about my research where the bolt goes into the bottom of the globe. I knew about global warming at that time from the research arriving from precise scientific study. However, it still hadn’t begun its impact like it’s happening in this decade.

“The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.” Einstein Amazingly, the Castle Rock LTE writer and Rosen write via emotions instead of understanding. They need to refer to Einstein’s quote with their anachronistic thinking. Hundreds of the top scientists from around the world find that global warming, in this case, in this time period—is not natural—but man made.

Why? How?

Every day around the planet, human beings burn 84 million barrels of oil that spews countless tons of carbon dioxide into the air annually. How much oil is that? If you take one barrel of oil at 20 inches in diameter at its base, and you place 84 million of them side by side, they will circle the earth at the equator more than 25,000 miles.

When you include that we burn millions of metric tons of natural gas along with billions of tons of coal annually, then, you burn uncounted tons of wood worldwide—voila—you’ve got massive and unending amounts of carbon dioxide pouring into the atmosphere 24/7. Any fool with a three digit IQ might discern something’s got to give with imbalance occurring planet-wide.

That horrific amount of exhaust blocks the ability of the warm air to dissipate into the stratosphere. It’s like placing a huge blanket around the planet. It’s like you wearing a wool sweater and down coat with gloves and playing basketball all day in Denver at 100 degrees of heat. Result: you’ll cook yourself to death.

To top it off, the human race grew from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 6.7 in 2007.

We’re on our way to 9.2 billion by mid century. Everything we do multiplies the factors stated above.
In other words, we’re destroying the balancing and support systems of this planet beyond its ability to maintain a viable environment for humans and all living creatures.
Whether you think global warming proves man made or nature doing her thing — we’re in deep trouble.

Worse, we will add 100 million car driving, coal and home heating oil burning humans to the United States in the next 33 years by 2040. China, now hell bent for leather to place a car in every garage for 1.3 billion people — as well as placing on line every two weeks a new coal-fired electrical plant — adds to this growing planetary nightmare. If you live to that time, you will witness horrible global responses to our burning fossil fuels.

“Can you think of any problem on any scale, from microscopic to global whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by having larger populations in our town, our cities, our states, our nation or the world?” CU’s Dr. Albert Bartlett As noted at the front of this column, the Castle Rock writer and Mike Rosen show themselves totally out of touch with reality on global warming. They both need a refresher course in college science and high school critical thinking. Logic might add to their enlightenment. In the case of Rosen, I doubt it. He’s locked into his 20th century paradigm and thinking.

Frosty Wooldridge is a resident of Louisville.

READER COMMENTS

Frosty,
Good to hear from you! Keep up the
good work you do.

Posted by jl on November 11, 2007 03:08 PM

Shameless Al (Chicken Little) Gore and all the other apocalyptical doom predictors like him have always been wrong. The sky is not falling.

Go to the link to see what the founder of the Weather Channel thinks.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/

Posted by Matt on November 10, 2007 12:46 PM

Man caused GHG's is but 0.2% of total global GHC's. The USA contributes 1/5 of that. If a football field represents all global GHC's, the GHC's from the USA is only 1.7".
We are insignificant and the hoax is finally being exposed.

Posted by PAK on November 10, 2007 08:06 AM

Ok, I think we know what humans can do about it now, apparently NOTHING.

Posted by brain on November 9, 2007 08:22 PM

Hank is right! Don't you people see? All but a handful of (oil company hired) scientists in the world all participated in a global conspiracy to "cook" the data and to invent this whole global warming fraud. There is competing evidence out there - but the megalomaniac liberal scientists have stifled it! All of their facts are false! All of their conclusions are lies! And if you notice its warmer you're as crazy as they are! And when have scientists been right about anything ever? It's like when I hear that nonsense about smoking causing cancer - I know a guy who lived to 85 and smoked a pack of day! Whaddya say to that, wackjob scientists?!?
Gotta go - the O'Reilly Factor's starting!

Posted by burt on November 9, 2007 03:56 PM

CHINA--WHOSE GDP WILL PASS THE USA IN ABOUT 35 YEARS--IS BUILDING COAL-FIRED POWER-PLANTS AT A RATE OF ONE EVERY OTHER DAY....That's right, over 150 per year. Do you think that they are using clean coal of scrubbers?

All you global warming geeks are going to die from either drowning, lung pollution or being incinerated. I for one, along with other non-gullibles, are not participating in your foolish hysteria.

Posted by Hank on November 9, 2007 02:15 PM

MORE GLOBAL WARMING MYTHS & REALITIES:

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/faqs-and-myths#5

Posted by Hank on November 9, 2007 02:05 PM

I guess we're all dead then because nothing we do will prevent this with the escalation in population and developing countries who will use the cheapist form of power. Even if we stopped driving and buring coal to produce electricity for those new plug in cars in America, can we get the rest of the world to follow?

Posted by kv on November 9, 2007 01:56 PM

JOHN COLEMAN, FOUNDER OF THE WEATHER CHANNEL, ON "GLOBAL WARMING" :

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/

HOAX...SCAM! The global warming hoax is finally being peeled like an onion. More and more folks in the scientific community are speaking out against this snake-oil as delivered by Al Gore. GW is nothing but a new-age religion that is based on guilt and fear, the only way out for the gullible and guilty zealots are carbon credit-indulgences. Elmer Gantry couldn't have done a better job, himself!

Posted by Hank on November 9, 2007 01:53 PM