Here’s a TED talk from 2002 by Kary Mullis. It’s funny from beginning to end. Around 20 minutes into it, Mullis goes off on global warming and warmists. If you have not seen this, you are in for a treat.

Mullis shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith for his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction technique for replication of oligonucleotides such as DNA and RNA, arguably the most important development in biology, biochemisty, molecular biology and forensics.

https://youtu.be/LNOtiRB3uyk

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Mullis cited two articles from the journal Science:

“Evidence for Strengthening of the Tropical General Circulation in the 1990s”
Junye Chen, Barbara E. Carlson, and Anthony D. Del Genio
Science 1 February 2002 295: 838-841 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065835]

“Evidence for Large Decadal Variability in the Tropical Mean Radiative Energy Budget”
Bruce A. Wielicki, Takmeng Wong, Richard P. Allan, Anthony Slingo, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Brian J. Soden, C. T. Gordon, Alvin J. Miller, Shi-Keng Yang, David A. Randall, Franklin Robertson, Joel Susskind, and Herbert Jacobowitz
Science 1 February 2002 295: 841-844 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065837]

2007 UN IPCC AR4 WG1 (Chapter 2, p. 135) report states: “Water vapour is the most abundant and important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. However, human activities have only a small direct influence on the amount of atmospheric water vapour.”  However, the graphic below illustrates the typical deception presented to schools, and to the general public in mainstream media. In addition to omitting the most abundant and important greenhouse gas (i.e. water vapor and clouds), this common deception is further exaggerated by the failure to point out that humans only contribute about 5% of the total CO2.

Human-caused CO2 is only about 0.117 % of the total greenhouse effect. Natural water vapor and clouds are responsible for 94.99% of the greenhouse warming effect.  CO2 in total is a trace gas in atmosphere at about 0.04%, and humans only contribute about 5% of that 0.04%. For comparison, when you exhale, your breath contains 4% CO2. The concentration of CO2 in air is far too low to cause any significant global warming.

But U.S. politicians, media, bankers, global corporations, NGO’s such as Sierra Club and Greenpeace, as well as the UN, the EU etc have been planning for 3 decades to tax you very heavily for your carbon footprint … these taxes are estimated to be in trillions of dollars.

Here is an excellent article on this subject by Dr. Tim Ball, titled:

Thanks To The IPCC, the Public Doesn’t Know Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/08/thanks-to-the-ipcc-the-public-doesnt-know-water-vapor-is-most-important-greenhouse-gas/

Reference:

Al Gore’s $15 trillion carbon tax

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-fools…/article/2622479

It is a truly amazing scale of hucksterism that the political leaders of 195 nations, many companies and a large portion of the earth’s population entertain the notion that farts warm our planet. I calculate a slightly different result from Mark Imisides: 1.06 X 10^4 years, i.e.10,000 years devoting the entire planet’s energy output would be required to heat the ocean a mere 1 degree C.  (The IEA estimates that, in 2013, total primary energy supply (TPES) was 5.67 × 10^20 joules of energy.) But, I agree with Mark on the overall impact.

Even if CO2 concentration in our atmosphere were 100%, ocean temperatures would still control the planet’s atmospheric temperature.

Since warming and cooling of the oceans always precedes warming and cooling of the atmosphere, this means that the oceans are controlling Earth’s temperatures, not the atmosphere. This means that CO2 does not warm or cool the planet in any significant amount, but instead only delays or moderates the temperature change effects that the oceans cause in the atmosphere.

CO2 retains some heat in the atmosphere as a temporary intermediate but in a relatively minor amount compared to water vapor. CO2’s effect is seen most at night in very dry areas such as deserts, and in the cold and dry air of the upper atmosphere and the polar regions, but it is a function of ocean temperature. CO2 causes a delay in warming and a delay in cooling, cycling after in correlation following ocean temperature, similar and co-dependent with water vapor.

Ocean temperatures are controlled by volcanic, tectonic and solar forces. El Ninos are a good example of the dominant control of ocean temperatures on atmospheric temperatures.

I have misplaced the source of the calculations in this table, but these are the correlations with average global temperature. Note that both ocean temperature and solar irradiation correlate with temperature better than CO2 and that ocean warming has a very high correlation. Global warming concerns about CO2 are a futile waste of resources.

Science and economics do not support the Paris Agreement, or the UN IPCC, in addition to the fact that it was illegal for Obama to commit to that agreement and it was also illegal for Obama to send about $1 Billion to the UN Green Climate Fund.  This deal is dead in the water.

Joel says it very well.

“More than 1000 peer-reviewed papers published over the last 3 years expose climate alarmism as fake science.” Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon said, “I’m not surprised by the large number or empirical evidence that rejects the CO2 dangerous global warming alarmism. This sort of literature review ought to put the sort of biased, if not anti-science, reports by the UN IPCC to shame.”

“Kenneth Richard published his list of 500 climate catastrophe skeptic papers appearing in scientific journals in 2016 alone. It is the latest addition to the 282 papers published in 2015, and the 248 papers published in 2014, bringing the total number of peer-reviewed papers published over the past three years to more than 1000.”

http://notrickszone.com/2017/01/02/crumbling-consensus-500-scientific-papers-published-in-2016-support-a-skeptical-position-on-climate-alarm/

“We, a group of retired and highly experienced engineers and scientists from the Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station eras, have volunteered our time and effort conducting an objective, independent assessment of the AGW alarm and reality of the actual threat. We have reviewed hundreds of reports and technical papers relevant to the subject matter, and discussed key issues with experts on both sides of this controversy. ” 

The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS)

“The TRCS solution  accurately correlates with measured empirical global temperature data, and shows that global temperature is not significantly affected by increases in atmospheric CO2.”

http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/home.html

The list of German scientists and engineers is up to 338 signers to the open letter to Angela Merkel protesting her position on climate. Here is the letter in German and the list of signers.

https://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/2009/07/26/klimawandel-offener-brief-an-kanzlerin-merkel-temperaturmessungen-ab-1701-widerlegen-anthropogen-verursachte-temperaturschwankungen/

Here is a translation of the letter:

Open Letter – Climate Change (translated from German)

Bundeskanzleramt

Frau Bundeskanzerlin Dr. Angela Merkel

Willy-Brandt-Strabe 1

10557 Berlin

Vizerprasident
Dipl. Ing. Michael Limburg
14476 Grob Glienicke
Richard-Wagner-Str. 5a

E-mail: limburg@grafik-system.de

Grob Glienicke 26.07.09

To the attention of the Honorable Madam Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

When one studies history, one learns that the development of societies is often determined by a zeitgeist, which at times had detrimental or even horrific results for humanity. History tells us time and again that political leaders often have made poor decisions because they followed the advice of advisors who were incompetent or ideologues and failed to recognize it in time. Moreover evolution also shows that natural development took a wide variety of paths with most of them leading to dead ends. No era is immune from repeating the mistakes of the past.

Politicians often launch their careers using a topic that allows them to stand out. Earlier as Minister of the Environment you legitimately did this as well by assigning a high priority to climate change. But in doing so you committed an error that has since led to much damage, something that should have never happened, especially given the fact you are a physicist. You confirmed that climate change is caused by human activity and have made it a primary objective to implement expensive strategies to reduce the so-called greenhouse gas CO2. You have done so without first having a real discussion to check whether early temperature measurements and a host of other climate related facts even justify it.

A real comprehensive study, whose value would have been absolutely essential, would have shown, even before the IPCC was founded, that humans have had no measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles. Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 – more than 10 years, and the global temperature has even dropped significantly since 2003.

Not one of the many extremely expensive climate models predicted this. According to the IPCC, it was supposed to have gotten steadily warmer, but just the opposite has occurred.

More importantly, there’s a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role. Indeed CO2’s capability to absorb radiation is almost exhausted by today’s atmospheric concentrations. If CO2 did indeed have an effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional warming over the long term would in fact remain limited to only a few tenths of a degree.

The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during its studies of 160 years of temperature measurements and 150 years of determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific credibility. The main points on this subject are included in the accompanying addendum.

In the meantime, the belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has become a pseudo-religion. Its proponents, without thought, pillory independent and fact-based analysts and experts, many of whom are the best and brightest of the international scientific community. Fortunately in the internet it is possible to find numerous scientific works that show in detail there is no anthropogenic CO2 caused climate change. If it was not for the internet, climate realists would hardly be able to make their voices heard. Rarely do their critical views get published.

The German media has sadly taken a leading position in refusing to publicize views that are critical of anthropogenic global warming. For example, at the second International Climate Realist Conference on Climate in New York last March, approximately 800 leading scientists attended, some of whom are among the world’s best climatologists or specialists in related fields. While the US media and only the Wiener Zeitung (Vienna daily) covered the event, here in Germany the press, public television and radio shut it out. It is indeed unfortunate how our media have developed – under earlier dictatorships the media were told what was not worth reporting. But today they know it without getting instructions.

Do you not believe, Madam Chancellor, that science entails more than just confirming a hypothesis, but also involves testing to see if the opposite better explains reality? We strongly urge you to reconsider your position on this subject and to convene an impartial panel for the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, one that is free of ideology, and where controversial arguments can be openly debated. We the undersigned would very much like to offer support in this regard.

Respectfully yours,

Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Friedrich-Karl Ewert EIKE

Diplom-Geologe

Universität. – GH – Paderborn, Abt. Höxter (ret.)

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Dr. Holger Thuß

EIKE President

European Institute for Climate and Energy

http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/

Signed by

Scientists

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https://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/2009/07/26/klimawandel-offener-brief-an-kanzlerin-merkel-temperaturmessungen-ab-1701-widerlegen-anthropogen-verursachte-temperaturschwankungen/