Global Warming Facts

Fact 1
No one knows how much of the current global warming is due to natural phenomenon or manmade.

Fact 2
We are currently in a period of natural warming that began in 1850 as we emerged from a 400 hundred year old cooling trend called the Little Ice Age.

Fact 3
97% of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere comes from the oceans and plants.

Fact 4
Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are made up of 90% water vapour, 4% Carbon Dioxide, 4% methane, 2% fluoride compounds and nitrous oxide.

Fact 5
Top estimates put water vapour as high as 95% of greenhouse gasses of this 95% 99.999% is natural and not attributed to manmade causes.

Fact 6
Carbon Dioxide accounts for 0.04% of the earths atmosphere.

Fact 7
Manmade Carbon Dioxide is only 0.117% of the total Carbon Dioxide in the air and contributes 0.0047% of Carbon dioxide total in the atmosphere.

Fact 8
Reducing Manmade Carbon Dioxide by 30% in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol has been estimated to lower earths temperature by 1/20th of 1 degree by 2050 a negligible effect..

Fact 9
Most of the global warming trend of the last 150 years occurred before 1940 the period since is by enlarge when human activity increased its Carbon Dioxide production from smoke stacks and automobiles.

Fact 10
The net global warming since 1940 is a tiny 0.2 degrees C.

Fact 11
There has been no acceleration since modern global warming began in 1850.

Fact 12
Between 2007 and 2008 global temperatures dropped between 0.59% and 0.75% degrees C virtually enough to offset the entire global warming of the last century this despite increased levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.

Fact 13
This came after nine years of none global warming since 1998 which was a direct contradiction to IPPC forecasts.

Fact 14
Past global temperature records show no historical correlation between temperature levels and Carbon Dioxide despite the claims of Al Gore and the IPPC.

Fact 15
Carbon offsetting does not work, trees release all their Carbon Dioxide when they die the net effect is negligible.

Fact 16
Global temperatures have a 79% correlation with the sunspot index. The sunspot index turned downward in 2000.

Fact 17
The Hadley Centre of the UK Met office has found that there has been no statistically significant warming since1995, Despite an increase in atmospheric Carbon Dioxide of 4%.

Fact 18
Climatologist Joe D' Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project said new data "shows that in five of the last seven decades since World War II including this one, global temperatures have cooled while Carbon Dioxide levels continue to rise.

Fact 19
3,000 NASA robots monitoring sea temperatures since 2003 have shown the worlds oceans temperatures falling slightly.

Fact 20
Data from 6,000 boreholes worldwide show global temperatures were up to 3 degrees C higher in the Medieval Warm Period than current levels.

Fact 21
During this period there were no glaciers in the tropical Andes today they exist.
Fact 22
There were Viking settlements and farms in Greenland, now those settlements are under a thick layer of permafrost.

Fact 23
There was little ice at the North Pole in 1491. A Chinese naval squadron sailed right round and found none.

Fact 24
The Antarctic, which holds 90% of the worlds ice and nearly all its 160,000 glaciers has got colder and gained ice mass in the last 30 years reversing a 6,000 year melting trend.

Fact 25
In the past half century the sun has been warmer than at any time in the last 11,400 years.

Fact 26
The UN's second assessment report contained a graph showing the Medieval Warm Period was hotter than today's temperatures.

Fact 27
Its 2001 report contained the infamous hockey stick report that features on many global warming sites supporting the theory of manmade global warming. It shows no significant Medieval Warm Period taking place. Incorrectly concluding that the 20th century was the warmest for 1,000 years

Fact 28
Reconstruction of Paleoclimatological Carbon Dioxide concentrations demonstrate that Carbon Dioxide levels today are near their lowest levels since the Cambrian era some 550 million years ago.

Fact 29
550 million years ago there was almost 20 times more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, it did not cause a runaway greenhouse effect.

Fact 30
Temperature changes lead not lag Carbon Dioxide levels on all time scales.

Fact 31
Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant but a naturally occurring gas, along with chlorophyll and sunlight it is essential for photosynthesis and is accordingly plant food.

Fact 32
Carbon Dioxide is logarithmic, so the more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere the less warming it produces.

Fact 33
Planet Mars as an atmosphere consisting of 95% Carbon Dioxide. Its temperature ranges from 0°C and -140°C.

Fact 34
If there was no greenhouse effect life could not continue on earth.

Fact 35
Greenland is so called because of its lush green pastures that were farmed for over 300 years in the Medieval warm period by Norse settlers.

Fact 36
There is no consensus by scientists supporting global warming. More than 32,000 scientists including 9,000 PhD's have signed a petition stating that they believe anthropogenic(manmade) effects on global warming are negligible.

Fact 37
The theory of anthropogenic global warming requires that temperature rise is driven by the rise in Carbon Dioxide levels. Ice core analysis however reveals than Carbon Dioxide levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperature change.

Fact 38
Climate change predictions for the next 50-100 years are based on computer models. Weather forecasts have been shown to be only 56% accurate for predicting upcoming weather after only as little as seven days.

Fact 39
According to the National Climatic Centre 1936 experienced the hottest overall summer on record in continental United States. In fact out of 50 states 22 recorded their all time high temperature during the 1930's

Fact 40
According to NASA between 1940 and 1970 average global temperatures dropped by 0.6°F.

Fact 41
Carbon Dioxide accounts for slightly more than 3/1000th of planet earths atmosphere.

Fact 42
At the time of the Dinosaur 160,000,000 years ago Carbon Dioxide levels were 500 times higher than they are now.

Fact 43
Many theorise that Dinosaurs were able to grow to such huge sizes because of favourable warmer climate and vast amounts of lush green carbon dioxide foliage existed at this time.

Fact 44
There are far more human deaths caused by cold climate than warm.

Fact 45
Earth has had eight significant warm periods since the last Ice Age. Fossil evidence suggests several of these were warmer than our recent warming period.

Fact 46
Despite public perception and media coverage statistically Storms and drouts are becoming fewer and milder as they did in previous periods of global warming.

Fact 47
In the 11th Century during the Medieval Warm Period England had many vineyards and its own prolific wine industry.

Fact 48
Many streets in southern England dating back to this period are called Vine street/road to this day.

Fact 49
There was a mini Ice Age observed between the 16th and 19th century, earth has been warming naturally since then.

Fact 50
Based on Ice Cores from Greenland it's widely accepted that there is 1500 year cycle of warming and cooling that goes back 400,000 years, many scientists believe we are in the warming up period of that cycle.

Fact 51
NASA has been warning since 2006 of an expected period of global cooling due to the decline of sunspots over the next decade.

Fact 52
There is always global warming when there is not global cooling, earths temperature is in continuous cycle.

Fact 53
From 1979-1997 in the USA extreme cold weather killed twice as many people as heat waves in the same period of time.

Fact 54
The Flora of the earth can absorb a thousand times more Carbon Dioxide than humanity releases into the atmosphere.

Fact 55
One large volcanic eruption can emit more Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere than entire years worth of global auto and smoke stack emissions.

Fact 56
The IPCC used 12 hand picked trees as the prime evidential basis for showing rising temperatures between 1990-2000.

Fact 57
If Carbon Dioxide levels decrease food production will slow because plants grow better at higher Carbon Dioxide levels, fruit grows larger and requires less irrigation.

Fact 58
Studies show that a doubling of Carbon Dioxide levels doubles leaf water efficiency allowing plants to grow more successfully in more arid climates.

Fact 59
As Carbon Dioxide concentrations increase even higher in years to come nearly all plants should be able to grow where it is currently too dry for them to do so, enabling the most drought resistant species to reclaim lands previously lost to desertification.

Fact 60
Greater vegetation cover will reduce the adverse effects of soil erosion caused by wind and rain.

Fact 61
Climate models that have focused on Carbon Dioxide have been very poor at forecasting Earths known climate history. Their forecasts of recent years have been woefully wrong.

Fact 62
The current Global temperatures fall below even the lowest rises is global temperature projected by IPCC models.

Fact 63
Carbon Dioxide levels have been as high as 7000ppm(parts per million) in the last 500 million years and did not cause runaway global warming, current levels are 390ppm.

Fact 64
Historical empirical data shows Carbon Dioxide rises follow temperature rise by about 800 years.

Fact 65
Cause does not follow effect.

Fact 66
The Earths temperature has been rising steadily since the last Ice Age 22,000 years ago.

Fact 67
Food crops have been estimated to have increased by 15% since 1950 due to the airborne fertilization effect of increased Carbon Dioxide levels.

Fact 68
Commercial growers deliberately increase levels of Carbon Dioxide in greenhouses to between 700ppm and 1000ppm to increase productivity and water efficiency far above the somewhat historically carbon starved levels currently experienced in the natural environment(390ppm).

Fact 69
Scientists from NASA say temperature on Mars has warmed by about 0.5°C since the 1970's this is similar to the temperature rise observed on earth over the same period.

Fact 70
The worlds oceans absorb 50% of the Carbon Dioxide produced by human activity.

Fact 71
Polar Bear populations are 500% larger than they were 50 years ago.

Fact 72
As temperatures have shown no significant change over the last 10 years(Slightly Cooling), politicians are ever more using the term "Climate Change" instead of "Global Warming."

Fact 73
The Vostok Ice core samples reveal that historically temperatures have gone up and down irrespective of Carbon Dioxide levels.

Fact 74
The Medieval Warm Period, which was up to 3°C warmer than today did not correlate to rising Carbon Dioxide levels.

Fact 75
The Sun is responsible for 99% of all the global warming we have.

Fact 76
The Earths temperature has dropped in the past two years. At the same time sunspot activity has declined to levels not seen since the early 1900's.

Fact 77
There is nearly 20 times more Carbon Dioxide moving into and out of the worlds oceans than humans produce.

Fact 78
There is 200 times as much Carbon Dioxide in the Surface Oceans than humans produce in a year worldwide.

Fact 79
No one knows how much of the Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere is released naturally by the worlds oceans.

Fact 80
Ice Core drillings in East Antarctica show that the ice is the densest it has been in the last ten years.

Fact 81
Antarctica has 90% of the Earths ice and 80% of its fresh water.

Fact 82
Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica contrary to the widespread belief that global warming is melting the ice caps.

Fact 83
The scientific committee on Antarctic Research reported at a meeting of Antarctic Treaty Nations in Washington that the South Pole has shown "significant cooling in recent decades."

Fact 84
Carbon Dioxide has no significant influence on average global temperatures, studies of Ice Cores from previous glaciations have determined no correlation.

Fact 85
Historically global cooling has killed more species than global warming.

Fact 86
The NOAA climate prediction website has stated when talking about forecasting future global warming. "All of the forecasts, however have large uncertainties . In some cases uncertainties are gigantic, while in other cases they are only moderately large."

Fact 87
It has been estimated that 85% of all jobs are effected by rising energy costs.

Fact 88
Carbon Dioxide from power plants has no negative effect on Forests. Carbon Dioxide is plant food.

Fact 89
NASA has stated that there were no observable sunspots between 1645-1715 this corresponds to the time period we know as the Little Ice Age.

Fact 90
This 75 year period known as the "Maunder Minimum" also correlates with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age.

Fact 91
2008 was one of the coldest winters globally for 50 years.

Fact 92
Scientific research in Antarctica has shown that ice mass is growing 30-45 billion tons every year.

Fact 93
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet interior increased by 45± 7 billion metric tons per year during the time period 1992 to 2003.

Fact 94
Scientists have observed that Antarctica has been cooling for the last 35 years.

Fact 95
The Sun's solar activity is commonly acknowledged to run on 11 year cycles.

Fact 96
One Sun flare can generate enough heat/energy to power the USA for 20 years.

Fact 97
The average Sun flare contains about the same energy as a thousand hydrogen bombs.

Fact 98
The worlds 25,000 polar bears live in 20 distinct population groups an increase of 5,000 from the 1960's. Most of the population groups are stable with two groups growing in population and two groups in decline. The two groups that declining are in areas where temperatures have fallen, the thriving groups are in areas that have warmed.

Fact 99
There is no scientific measurable proof that Carbon Dioxide levels have any effect on global temperatures.

Fact 100
The core of the sun is under 200 billion times the pressure of the earth's surface. It is 60,000 miles thick and has a temperature that does not exceed 15 million °C. It's so hot that hydrogen is fused into helium.

Fact 101
The Sun Consumes more mass in one second than all of the fossil fuels ever burned on earth. It is the primary cause of Global Warming and Global Cooling not Carbon Dioxide which, has a negligible effect.

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