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Greg Morse

February 23, 2000

Sherman Prize Speaking Contest Speech

If Global Warming Did Not Exist, It Would Be

Necessary To Invent It


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Long ago, Voltaire said, If God did not exist, it would be

necessary to invent him. This theory satisfied the people that thou

about it at the time. Now, however, one might think of the global

warming theory in the same way, If global warming did not exist, i

would be necessary to invent it. Many people believe that global

warming does exist, and that man has a significant role in earth


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temperature changes. I seriously question that conclusion. This issu

has become a political issue and global warming supporters do not b

their conclusions on good science.

First, let us look at how this issue has come into our nation

conscience. Global warming came about after researchers found the

earlier global cooling theory to be wrong, both of these environmen


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catastrophe theories being government funded. Global cooling was

doomsday argument since there were slight temperature declines, du

to what supporters claimed to be from hydrocarbons or greenhouse

gases. Now global warming argues the opposite, also due to

hydrocarbons, the government employing many researchers to prov

that global warming exists. Many global cooling and warming


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supporters are anti-technology supporters as well. The EPA include

description of global warming on their web site, which is accessible

today. However, in their main description of global warming, they

admit that they are uncertain how these gases effect the earth, and y

they conclude that the gases are causing global warming. Since

humans emit many greenhouse gases, the easiest way for the EPA


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prove global warming is by showing an increase in temperatures. In

1996, B. D. Santer published an article in Nature magazine about th

increasing temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere troposphere.

However, he falsified the data in his graph to prove his point by not

including about 10 years of data before and after the group of years

he presented. P. J. Michaels and P. C. Knappenberger came back w


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an article in Nature magazine showing all the data, proving Santers

data was incomplete, and therefore completely misleading and wron

Scientists are being paid by the government to prove global warmin

and in order to be paid they will twist the data so it supports the

hypothesis of global warming. Politicians pay these researchers to

prove global warming because if global warming exists, it gives


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politicians further power to control private property. The EPA for

example requested twenty one million dollars for research on their

global change project, which has an objective of determining mans

effect on the environment. Since the EPA only applies restrictions

what man can and cannot do, the EPA gives the scientists the object

of proving worst case scenarios. Instead of paying researchers to stu


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how greenhouse gas effects the earth, the government requires them

show global warming to be true, even if all of the evidence shows

otherwise. Thus, the research is useless, since the scientists are

required to show global warming is occurring.

Now let us look at the argument against global warming. T

many that argue against global warming have taken the big picture t


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base their case on, and have significant amounts of evidence that pr

global warming false in multiple ways. There has been a significan

increase in carbon dioxide in the air, which neither side disputes.

However after further research, Arthur Robinson and other scientist

show data that one cannot relate the temperature on the earth to

greenhouse gases whatsoever, but one can relate the temperature of


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earth to the solar magnetic cycle of the sun, the sun determining the

temperature of the earth with only a few slight discrepancies. The

National Climate Data Center has the United States national

temperatures for the past 103 years yet they do not show great

temperature changes, and the temperature changes that occur are

because of the sun. Both sides agree that there is such a thing as the


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greenhouse effect, also, yet they disagree on how the atmosphere

responds to the greenhouse effect. The EPAs IPCC hypothesis for

global warming however showed much larger increases in temperat

than those that occurred, proving that the negative greenhouse effec

theories are probably false. Problems arise when measuring

temperatures because the location is very significant. Global warmi


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researchers often obtain their temperatures from highly populated ar

However, scientists proved that the population of an area relates to t

temperature. Modern technology has an effect on heating of crowde

areas, black, heat-absorbing pavement being a large reason for the h

The largest discovery though, is the discovery of how the large incr

in carbon dioxide is helping us. Extensive research has proven that


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higher the carbon dioxide concentration in the air, the faster plant

growth will occur. Recently the size, the number of branches, need

roots, limbs and virtually all aspects having to do with plant growth

have risen or sped up significantly due to the increase in atmospheri

carbon dioxide. Thus plants yield more than they would; for examp

dry grain yielded 25% more in 1994 than 1993 and wet grain yielde


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12% more in 1994 than 1993. Scientists have found these same resu

in laboratories to prove further this correlation between increased

carbon dioxide and plant growth. The number of benefits the increa

carbon dioxide gives us is incredible and helps all agricultural

industries. Since the plants will grow faster, they will convert more

the carbon dioxide into oxygen, causing a balance in the system aga


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Even if global warming did exist, which the scientific evidence prov

doubtful, Iben Browning shows that man still has virtually no effect

climate: Well an overall view is that man is truly insignificant in th

scheme of things. He takes himself much more seriously than the

world takes him. The greenhouse effect for example is supposed to

due to carbon dioxide produced by the fuel that man uses. Actually


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termites consume 38% of all the cellulose in the world and I am not

complaining because without termites you would be up to your neck

leaves and twigs. But the termites are very gassy little animals and

they give out 260% as much CO2 as man produces with all the fuel

he burns. So man is truly insignificant when compared with a termi


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The greenhouse effect is probably primarily political and people wh

really have studied it surely cannot take it seriously.

Where are we today on this issue? Congress confronts ma

bills regarding the global warming issue; however, recent petitions m

finally be overcoming the politicians agendas. In Kyoto, Japan, in

December 1997, a conference on global warming took place. The


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outcome was an agreement came out that went to Congress, which

would limit the uses of hydrocarbons. Arthur Robinson at the Oreg

Institute of Science and Medicine had his institution sponsor a petiti

to reject the agreement and all agreements like it. The petition recei

massive support, from over 19700 signers, 17100 of which are

scientists with degrees. The petition on the opposite side only has


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about 2500 supporters. This imbalance has stopped the agreement f

passing through Congress, and global warming advocates realize th

their claim of a consensus about global warming was false. Thus, th

truth is slowly but surely coming out, that global warming is a hoax

conclusion, the best way to look at global warming is to stop trying

invent global warming, since it does not exist.

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