Donald Boesch is the President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and he claims that "There is a very solid consensus on what we know about climate change."
So I have a few questions for him:
1) Is this the same scientific census that in the 1960s predicted worlwide famine by 1980 because farmers would not be able to produce enough grain to feed the world?
2) Is this the same scientific census that -- once proven wrong about worldwide famine -- was predicting "global cooling" that would plunge us into a "new ice age' in 1975?
3) How does he explain that not one so-called 'climate change' computer model has proven correct in 18 years in terms of long OR short-term trends?
4) How does he explain the fact that the 'climate change' trend actually appears to go in an opposite direction?
5) How does the scientific consensus explain the use of faulty data by NASA that caused them to recently revise the list of the warmest years of the 20th century, putting the absolute warmest year in 1934?
6) Global warming has been good for humans in the past. In fact, a rise in the temperature of 1 degree celcius in the Medievel Warming Period created a great movement people into more northern regions of Europe, opened up Greenland to Viking colonization (hence, its name "Green"!), and allowed for the cultivation in Europe of grain crops it was not possible to grow there before. Scientific consensus -- according to the computer models -- suggest a rise in the temperature over the next 99 years of half that rate. Explain the problem?
7) Scientific consensus says that the melting of the polar ice caps will cause ocean levels to rise. Were my high school science teachers incorrect when they taught me that water is denser when frozen-- yet consumes more volume? If you are correct, then if I take a glass, fill it with ice, then fill the rest with water so the water comes all the way to the lip, then the melting ice should cause the water to overflow the glass. It doesn't. Where do I go wrong? (Note: the entire Artctic ice sheet floats, and over 80% of the Antarctic sheet does, so take that one out of your equation)
8) A corrollary to #7: the process of ice melting is an endothermic reaction. As I was taught in high school chemistry, "endothermic" means essentially "absorbing energy". In this case, heat. This is why you put ice in your tea... the ice absorbs heat, melting, and thereby cooling the drink. This happens because adding energy to a solid makes it a liquid. Or was Mr. Fred Dinges wrong in 1986? If so, would not a melting of the polar caps actually help in fighting the other effects of global warming?
9) Scientists also report that Mars is experiencing global warming. What industries on Mars are responsible for global warming?
10) How do you explain the fact that many of the National Weather Service information collecting weather stations are located in areas that pose a natural bias toward increasing temperatures? For example, the NWS station in Parkton, MD sits just 10 feet from a 1/2 acre asphalt lot on one side, and twenty feet from Interstate 83 on the other side. As reflected heat from asphalt tends to be far greater than the absorbed heat, this creates an inaccuracy in the reading. If we are going to collect data, should we not make sure it is valid?