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

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United States Net Import of Energy costs 300
billion per Year
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One Palo Verde Nuclear Installation in Each State
Results in 200 Billion Net Export of Energy
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Al Gores Explanation to Children of Global
Warming
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The temperature change during the entire past
3,000 years would have essentially no effect on
the melting rate of Susies ice cream cone.
Average United States temperature changed 0.5
degrees C during the past century 1 of the
ordinary range in Oregon.
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Al Gores Explanation to Children of Global
Warming
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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.
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Al Gores CO2 curve has no axis, but implies that
CO2 has risen from a very low value
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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.
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Al Gore blames the retreat of Glaciers on
human-caused global warming
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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.
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Al Gore states that his strongest evidence is a
CO2 temperature correlation during the past
650,000 years
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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.
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Predicting Earth Temperatures
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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 Gores
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.
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Al Gore Blames recent Hurricanes on Human
Hydrocarbon Use
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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.
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Many residents of low-lying Pacific Island
nations have already had to evacuate their homes
because of rising seas.
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
We urge the United States government to
reject the global warming agreement that was
written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and
any other similar proposals. The proposed limits
on greenhouse gases would harm the environment,
hinder the advance of science and technology, and
damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that
human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or
other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the
foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of
the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the
Earths climate. Moreover, there is substantial
scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric
carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects
upon the natural plant and animal environments of
the Earth.
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Temperature of Sargasso Sea (a 2 million square
mile section of the Atlantic Ocean) now
Equalsthe 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
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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
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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
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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
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Glacier Length and Sea Level confirm one another
and the temperature rise since the Little Ice Age
Hydrocarbon use has no effect
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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 1970s.
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The Current Temperature Rise of about 0.5 C per
Century is Slight
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U.S. Temperature Fluctuations Correlate with
Solar Changes
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Arctic air temperatures correlate with U.S.
temperatures and with solar activity but NOT
with hydrocarbon use
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Tropospheric Temperatures Confirm U.S. Surface
Temperature Records
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Six temperature records confirm one another and
the correlation with solar activityHydrocarbon
use does not correlate
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U.S. Rainfall is Increasing at 1.8 Inches per
Century
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Number of Violent Tornados is Decreasing
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Atlantic Hurricanes making Landfallhave not
Increased
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Violent hurricanes and maximum hurricane wind
speeds have not increased
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Atmospheric CO2 has risen 30 largely due to
hydrocarbon use
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Temperature Rises during Interglacial
PeriodsCaused the CO2 Rises by Decreasing the
Solubility of CO2 in Sea Water
During 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.
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• 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.

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Fertilization of plants by CO2

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

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The Growth Rate of Long Lived Pine Trees has
Accelerated due to Human Hydrocarbon Use
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Standing Hardwood and Softwood timber in the
United States has Increased 40 during the past
50 years, largely due to Human Hydrocarbon Use
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Plants are Fertilized by Carbon Dioxide,
including the 279 plant species summarized in
this figure
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Wheat and Trees are already Growing far Faster
due to Human Hydrocarbon Use
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.and, they will grow even faster in the future!
This is a wonderful and unexpected gift from the
industrial revolution.
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• 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.