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Disadvantages of Global Warming

Ocean circulation disrupted, disrupting and having unknown effects on world climate.

Higher sea level leading to flooding of low-lying lands and deaths and disease from flood and evacuation. Deserts get drier leaving to increaseddesertification. Changes toagriculturalproduction that can lead to food shortages. Water shortages in already water-scarce areas. Starvation, malnutrition, and increased deaths due to food and crop shortages. More extreme weather and an increased frequency of severe andcatastrophic storms. Increased disease in humans and animals. Increased deaths from heat waves. Extinction of additional species of animals and plants. Loss of animal and plant habitats. Increased emigration of those from poorer or low-lying countries to wealthier or higher countries seeking better

(or non-deadly) conditions.

Additional use of energy resources for cooling needs. Increased air pollution. Increased allergy and asthma rates due to earlier blooming of plants. Melt of permafrost leads to destruction of structures, landslides, and avalanches. Permanent loss of glaciers and ice sheets. Cultural or heritage sites destroyed faster due to increased extremes. Increased acidity of rainfall. Earlier drying of forests leading to increased forest fires in size and intensity. Increased cost of insurance as insurers pay out more claims resulting from increasingly large disasters. Aggressiveness will increase, leading to an increase in the murder rate.

Advantages of Global Warming

Arctic, Antarctic, Siberia, and other frozen regions of earth may experience more plant growth and milderclimates.

The next ice age may be prevented from occurring. Northwest Passage through Canada's formerly-icy north opens up to sea transportation. Less need for energy consumption to warm cold places. Fewer deaths or injuries due to cold weather. Longer growing seasons could mean increased agricultural production in some local areas. Mountains increase in height due to melting glaciers, becoming higher as they rebound against the missing

weight of the ice.

Boundary disputes between countries over low-lying islands willdisappear.

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1. Britain is one degree Celsius cooler now than it was at the time of theDomesday book.

2. Greenland got its name from the verdant pastures that attracted the Norsesettlers under Eric the Red in 986. They carried on their normal way of life

(based on cattle, grain, hay and herring) for 300 years until the Little Ice Age,

when they were driven off by the encroaching ice and the Inuit took over. Theice and the Inuit are still there.

3. Carbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas. In the atmosphere there is over ahundred times the concentration of water vapour, which is the dominant

greenhouse gas.

4. Without the Greenhouse Effect there would be no life on Earth.5. Temperature measurements by satellite, radio sonde balloons and well

maintained rural surface stations in the West show no significant warming.

6. The evidence of significant warming comes from surface stations that areaffected by a variety of factors that contaminate the data.

7. Computer modelsof the climate are worthless, as they are based on manyassumptions about interactions between climate factors that are still unknown

to science. They are generally unstable and chaotic, giving a wide variety of

answers depending on the input assumptions.

8. The Kyoto agreement would have a devastating effect on the world economybut, since carbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas, an undetectable effect on

the climate.

9. The IPCC (the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has been themain engine for promoting the global warming scare. It has become notorious

for its corrupt practices of doctoring its reports and executivesummaries, after they have been approved by the participating scientists, to

conform to its political objectives

10.The really big lie about man-made global warming is that almost allscientists accept it. More than 4,000 scientists from 106 countries, including 72

Nobel prize winners, signed theHeidelberg Appeal (1992), calling for a

rational scientific approach to environmental problems. Many senior scientists

have also supported The Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse

Warming (1992), The Leipzig Declaration (1997) and finally the Oregon

Petition(1998) which received the signatures of over 19,000 scientists

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