Courtesy of Mish.
Seriously misguided students are up in arms over the possible revival of the Keystone Pipeline project from Canada to the US. Their concern is greenhouse gas and global warming.
The notion that global warming is caused by man-made greenhouse gasses is questionable enough. The globe has gone through periods of glaciation and melting over hundreds of millions of years. Scientists think they can model changes over a period of hundreds or thousands of years when even 100,000 years may be insufficient.
Anything that happened in the last 100 or 1,000 years can be nothing more than a random fluctuation given the million-year cycles in play.
Trilobite Mass Extinction
I have a fossil of a trilobite on my desk.
They are now extinct, wiped out in a mass extinction about 250 million years ago. Trilobites flourished for 270 million years before that.
Climate change may have been a cause of extinction. Rest assured it was not man-made. Nor could there have been a man-made solution.
It’s So Cold … Polar Bears Taken Inside
To pretend we can track global warming over the last 100 years and attribute that to man-made global warming is ludicrous.
Indeed, scientists are now scrambling to explain why there has been global cooling for the last 17 years.
Global warming is nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and has been slowly falling for approximately the past 10 years. In 2013, there were more record-low temperatures than record-high temperatures in the United States.
At the end of the first week in January, a brutal spell of cold weather settled over most of the country. Multiple cold-temperature records were shattered across the country. Some sites experienced frigid conditions not seen since the 19th century. Chicago and New York City broke temperature records set in 1894 and 1896, respectively. These extremes were not singular, but exemplary of conditions throughout much of the continent. Temperatures in Chicago were so cold that a polar bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo had to be taken inside.
Global Cooling?…
