WEATHER TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY

Alan Slavin’s letter (Sept. 11, 2015) refers to papers and articles by James L. Powell to confirm that 99.9% of scientists support the concept of man-made factors, primarily carbon dioxide causing global warming.

Why Powell did the study is a mystery because the concept has been pretty well universally accepted by all climate scientists for many years. This comment also applies to a preceding John Cook study that claimed 97.7% support for man-made global warming. The controversial part is how much warming is actually occurring.

There is a universal agreement that the theoretical warming from additional carbon dioxide is relatively small, and that even if the carbon dioxide concentrations doubled, the direct increase in temperature would be less than 1 degree, which is inconsequential. Faced with this reality, the IPCC developed a positive-reinforcing theory in which a little bit of carbon dioxide warming is magnified several times, and this is the basis for their computer projections of catastrophic global warming. The climate realists find that there is no evidence of this, forcing process in objective temperature measurements and that the theory is scientifically unsupportable.

The accepted fact, by both IPCC supporting scientists and climate realists, that there has been no increase in measured global temperatures for at least 18 years, when carbon dioxide concentrations increased substantially, is a case in point.

To dodge around this theory destroying reality, the IPCC Group have been indulging in the massive adjustment of measured temperatures to create the fictionalized high temperatures referred to in my letter last week.

The writings of Slavin and David “ignore the facts” Suzuki concerning increased storminess and extreme weather are not supported by government agency measurements of hurricanes, tropical storms and force 3 to 5 tornado frequencies and intensities.

For example, University of Florida data indicates that the total tropical storm energy is currently near historic lows. In addition, there has not been a land-falling hurricane of force 3 or greater hitting the U.S. in more than an unprecedented 11 years. Slavin offered the advice to “separate opinion from fact.”

I hope that Slavin and Suzuki heed this advice and do some fact-checking.

I have prepared a relatively comprehensive article on the IPCC shenanigans that I would be happy to send to anyone requesting it. 705-243-7845 or rmarttila@cogeco.ca. ROBERT MARTTILA HOMEWOOD AVE.