United States Net Import of Energy costs $300 billion per Year

One Palo Verde Nuclear Installation in Each State Results in $200 Billion Net

Export of Energy

Al Gore’s Explanation to Children of Global Warming

The temperature change during the entire past 3,000 years would have essentially no effect on the melting rate of Susie’s ice cream cone. Average United States temperature changed 0.5 degrees C during the past century – 1% of the ordinary range in Oregon.

Al Gore’s Explanation to Children of Global Warming

H2O and CO2 molecules do not kill sunbeams. They also do not steal boxes of money. However, as Al Gore neglects to mention to the children, they do provide the carbon and much of the oxygen and hydrogen for every protein, fat, and carbohydrate molecule in Susie and the ingredients in her ice cream cone. Without atmospheric H2O and CO2 molecules, shown here as evil demons, life on earth would not be possible.

Al Gore’s CO2 curve has no axis, but implies that CO2 has risen from a very low value

Atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 22% since accurate measurements began in 1958. The air in ordinary human offices is typically more than 1,000 ppm.

Al Gore blames the retreat of Glaciers on human-caused global warming

Al Gore begins this glacier discussion in 1980, and uses short time periods in all of his glacier examples. In fact, world glaciers have been retreating for 200 years. This glacier retreat reflects a rising temperature trend beginning in 1800, which has been entirely unaffected by human hydrocarbon use. Glaciers lengthen and shorten cyclically as the earth cools and warms.

Al Gore states that his strongest evidence is a CO2 – temperature correlation during the past

650,000 years

Rising temperature raises the vapor pressure of CO2 over the oceans, increasing atmospheric CO2. This accounts quantitatively for all CO2 rises during the interglacial periods of the past 650,000 years. Also, careful analysis shows that the CO2 rise and fall generally lags the temperature.

Al Gore claims that CO2 fluctuations from an unknown source caused the ice ages and the interglacials. In fact, the temperature changes caused the changes in CO2 - not the opposite, as Al Gore claims.

“Predicting” Earth Temperatures

There are no such “computer models that long ago predicted” these temperature trends, as Al Gore claims. The computer models were fitted, with 6 or 7 adjustable parameters, retroactively to the temperature record. Notice also that Al Gore’s alleged computer model predictions begin before 1940, when computers did not exist.

Moreover, none of the models include short-term fluctuations of less than 0.01 degrees C. These fluctuations have been graphically added to the “predicted” curves to make them look authentic.

Al Gore Blames recent Hurricanes on Human Hydrocarbon Use

Neither the frequency nor the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes has increased. Assertions that hurricanes are increasing as a result of human hydrocarbon use are entirely false.

“Many residents of low-lying Pacific Island nations have already had to evacuate their homes because of rising seas.”

Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

Sea level has increased gradually and steadily at a rate of 7 inches per century for 150 years. This change cannot be causing the evacuation of flooded islands as Al Gore asserts. In the past 50 years, sea level increased 3 inches.

Gore claims that diseases are spreading due to global warming. There is no evidence for this,

although malaria has killed 10s of millions of children as a result of the DDT ban that Al Gore championed.

Gore claims that many species have become extinct as a result of global warming – including the Wooly

Mammoth, which has been extinct for several thousand years.

Gore claims that those who oppose his claims do so for profit – but Gore himself has made millions of dollars during his global warming crusade – and is

now raising large amounts of venture capital for his business effort to profit from fears of global

warming.

Finally, Al Gore and his Hollywood, IPCC United Nations, and Media retainers claim that an overwhelming “consensus” of scientists agree with his statements, and only a handful of “skeptics” disagree. Yet, more than 20,000 Americans with university degrees in physical science –– have signed a petition that reads:

Temperature of Sargasso Sea (a 2 million square mile section of the Atlantic Ocean) now Equals

the 3000-Year Average

Temperatures were about 1 °C warmer 1000 years ago and 1 °C cooler 200-300 years ago during the Little Ice Age

Climate records of more than 100 other Geographical Locations confirm

Sargasso Sea record

Quantitative Data from 23 Geographical Locations confirms 1 °C higher Medieval Period

Current cycle of Glacier Melting as Earth Recovers from Little Ice Age began about 1800

and is unaffected by hydrocarbon use

Glacier shortening lags temperature by 20 years

150-year 7-inch-per-century Sea Level Rise also reflects recovery

from Little Ice Age and is unaffected by hydrocarbon use

Rise lags temperature by 20 years and is due to sea water expansion and other factors

Glacier Length and Sea Level confirm one another and the temperature rise since the

Little Ice Age

Hydrocarbon use has no effect

U.S. Average Temperature Trends Upward at 0.5 °C per Century

Three intermediate trends are seen – including downtrend used to justify fears of global cooling in the 1970’s.

The Current Temperature Rise of about 0.5 °C per Century is Slight

U.S. Temperature Fluctuations Correlate with Solar

Changes

Arctic air temperatures correlate with U.S. temperatures and with solar activity – but NOT

with hydrocarbon use

Tropospheric Temperatures Confirm

U.S. Surface Temperature Records

Six temperature records confirm one

another and the correlation with

solar activity

Hydrocarbon use does not correlate

U.S. Rainfall is Increasing at 1.8 Inches per Century

Number of Violent Tornados is Decreasing

Atlantic Hurricanes making Landfallhave not Increased

Violent hurricanes and maximum hurricane wind speeds have not increased

Atmospheric CO2 has risen 30% largely due to hydrocarbon use

Temperature Rises during Interglacial Periods

Caused the CO2 Rises by

Decreasing the Solubility of CO2 in Sea WaterDuring the interglacials, CO2 rose 50% - due to temperature caused ocean out-gassing.

Also, CO2 rise and fall lagged the temperature rise and fall throughout this period. So, it could not have caused the temperature rise.

• Plants obtain their carbon atoms from carbon dioxide. Animals obtain their carbon atoms from plants. Carbon is the structural element of all organic molecules in living things.

• The most important substances that make life possible, are water, oxygen and carbon dioxide. They are definitely not atmospheric pollutants.

When atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, plant fertilization is increased. So, plants then grow faster and larger and require less water.

Fertilization of plants by CO2

The Growth Rate of Long Lived Pine Trees has

Accelerated due to Human Hydrocarbon Use

Standing Hardwood and Softwood timber in the

United States has Increased 40% during the past

50 years, largely due to Human Hydrocarbon Use

Plants are Fertilized by Carbon Dioxide, including the 279 plant species summarized in

this figure

Wheat and Trees are already Growing far Faster due

to Human Hydrocarbon Use

….and, they will grow even faster in the future!

This is a wonderful and unexpected gift from the industrial revolution.

• Human hydrocarbon use is not increasing temperatures nor damaging the climate.

• Hydrocarbon use is increasing the amounts and diversity of plants and animals on the Earth.

• Global taxation and rationing of energy will end this environmental improvement; diminish American prosperity; and destroy the lives of billions of people in poorer nations - who are lifting themselves from poverty by means of hydrocarbon energy.