A Short Critique of Climate Change

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Jr. Elgin L Hushbeck. A Short Critique of Climate Change

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A Short Critique of Climate Change

Elgin Hushbeck, Jr.

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Over the last century many cities have grown with the result that thermometers that were once outside the city and its heat, are now inside the city with it warmer temperatures. These thermometers will show an increase, not because the climate has warmed, but simply due to the fact that the city has expanded to surround the thermometer. This artificial increase, while significant to the local area, is insignificant to the global temperature and must be estimated so it can be removed. How big is this? It changes from city to city and even then the effect is not constant. On windy days the difference between country and city will be small, if it exists at all. Considering the warming we are supposedly seeing from Climate Change is a tiny fraction of the warming of the Urban Heat Effect, it does not take much of a change in the estimate to go from warming to cooling.

The Urban Heat Effect is only one of the many factors that must be estimated in order to reach a global temperature. In the mid-1990s satellites were launched that could measure the global temperature. These satellites would not be affected by many of the sources of error affecting terrestrial measurements, so they were heralded at the time by supporters as being able to definitively show the earth was warming. Yet when the satellite data started coming in, no warming has was seen. Climate Change supporters now believe their launch just happened to coincide with the beginning of the Hiatus. For skeptics, this raises questions about the earlier claims of warming.

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