| When pondering this question, it’s important to | | | | In California, measurements were being taken next |
| realize how the Earth’s temperature is measured | | | | to the tarmac of the airport, when moved to a |
| and has been measured for the last several hundred | | | | grassy area, the daily temps dropped by as much as |
| years. Staring with the period before 1750, there was | | | | 8ºF. One weather reporting station was found to |
| no standardization of temperature measurement. | | | | be recording temperatures next to the air conditioner |
| (The thermometer was first invented in 1714 by | | | | compressor outside its building. |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit.) As time went on, between 1750 | | | | So what this all boils down to is that the data to |
| and 1850 many standards were proposed with a plus | | | | support global warming is horribly flawed. |
| or minus (+/-) accuracy of more than 1ºF. Between | | | | “It’s the sun, stupid!” – If the Earth |
| 1900 and 1950, this was pared down to less than | | | | warms, it’s the sun with its active solar flares. |
| 1ºF +/-. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, science | | | | When the solar flares go away – called a solar |
| advanced to 0.1ºF +/- accuracy and from the | | | | minimum – the Earth cools a little. This is an |
| 1980’s to present, we can now measure surface | | | | observable and provable phenomenon. The Sun |
| temperatures to less than 0.01ºF using satellites | | | | irradiates energy on the planet’s surface at a |
| that can measure temperature changes by the | | | | rate of 1,365.3 watts per square meter – every |
| variation of vibrations of molecules in the | | | | day – all day long. That’s 349 trillion kilowatts |
| atmosphere. This is fine, but we don’t typically | | | | spread over the surface of the earth by the Sun |
| use this data when people are talking about | | | | each day. (3 quintillion kilowatt-hours per year – |
| “global warming.” | | | | 3,059,334,000,000,000,000 kilowatts) |
| The Environmental Alarmists want to use ground | | | | As puny humans, we can today generate only about |
| based temperature measurements, which are | | | | 17 trillion kilowatts per year. By comparison, the |
| notoriously flawed when looking for evidence of | | | | Sun’s output is 176,000 times as great as our |
| global warming. Weather stations around the United | | | | own. |
| States are forever moving from one location to | | | | All of this doesn’t even begin to take into |
| another. This happened several years ago in Austin, | | | | account the ability of the oceans to absorb heat, the |
| Texas. Previously, all of the weather observations | | | | insulation effect of clouds (the main green house gas) |
| were taken at Mueller Airport. When it was built in | | | | or even geothermal energy that has been here since |
| the late 50’s, it was way out on the edge of | | | | the formation of the planet – Earth’s |
| town. Gradually, the city grew up around the airport | | | | ultimate heat reservoir. |
| skewing the weather data with the urban heat island | | | | For someone to suggest that humans can change |
| effect. When the airport was first built, Highway IH | | | | the climate is like saying an ant can change the |
| 35 didn’t exist. By the time the airport was | | | | course of a supertanker. |
| moved, the highway was several hundred feet wide | | | | The facts are ignored by the Environmental Alarmists |
| running around the west end of the airport. What | | | | because they don’t serve their cause. The media |
| once was countryside had become suburbia. The first | | | | isn’t going to print an Article that says something |
| large scale shopping centers in Austin were built less | | | | so mundane as “Earth’s Temperature related |
| than a mile from the airport. What had once been in | | | | to the Sun.” It just isn’t enticing enough to |
| the country was now being surrounded by a hundred | | | | report what we already know and can prove. |
| thousand commuters and their cars every day. What | | | | 2008 and may go down as the coldest year on |
| had once been green pastures was now asphalt | | | | record for the last 100 years. The winter of 2008 |
| parking lots and interstate highways. | | | | to 2009 is one of the largest “natural disasters |
| Today, the airport has moved to site of the old | | | | to hit China in decades. Nearly a million building were |
| Bergstrom Air Force Base. Further out into the | | | | damaged and airports had to close because of |
| country once again and this time at a much lower | | | | blizzards. Hong Kong experienced the second longest |
| elevation near the Colorado River basin. The result? | | | | cold spell since 1885. |
| Suddenly we have record cold temperatures from | | | | In Vietnam, 40% of the rice crop was swiped out by |
| Bergstrom as weather observers measure the cold | | | | the record cold along with 33,000 head of livestock. |
| air that sinks into the lower elevations. Does that | | | | In Mumbai, India, they recorded the lowest |
| mean we have “climate change” in Austin or | | | | temperature in 40 years. |
| that we are simply measuring temperatures in a | | | | In International Falls, Minnesota where the lakes |
| different locale? | | | | freeze 6 feet deep, they broke their old record of |
| In Bend Oregon, the weather station has moved 3 | | | | -37ºF with a temperature reading of -40ºF. |
| times in the last 30 years. At one point it was in a | | | | In March of 2008, NASA reported that the oceans |
| canyon that was warmer than most of the town. | | | | have been cooling for the last 5 years. Sea levels |
| Each time it moved, there were noticeable | | | | have stopped rising and the Northern Hemisphere |
| differences in the temperatures measured when | | | | cyclone and hurricane activity is at a 24 year low. |
| compared from year to year. | | | | As the environmental alarmists are in denial stating |
| In a town in Arizona, the daily temperatures were | | | | that is a short-term trend, the government of Great |
| measured on the courthouse lawn that was watered | | | | Britain is forging ahead with legislation to “cool |
| frequently. When the weather station was moved | | | | the climate.” This after London experienced its |
| across the road to a dry location, the temperatures | | | | first October snowfall since 1934 and Ireland went |
| became as much as 10º warmer. Is that | | | | through the coldest October in 70 years. |
| “climate change?” | | | | |