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Garth George wrote in The New Zealand Herald daily paper of 18 February 2010 -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10626802 Reports of inaccuracies with global warming data will one day be a source of mirth for us. I am indebted to a reader for sending me a copy of an article which appeared in this newspaper and which I hadn't read. Under the headlines "Man is making the earth too warm, threat of melting polar caps", it quoted a prominent physicist as saying that the levels of the oceans could rise 12 metres* and flood vast areas of the Earth in the next half century unless atmospheric temperatures were controlled. The reason I missed that story is that it appeared in this newspaper on Tuesday, April 9, 1957, at which time I was 16 years old and preparing to travel by ship to the United States on an American Field Service scholarship. The physicist, Dr Joseph Kaplan, professor of physics at the University of California, said such flooding could occur as a result of accelerated melting of the polar ice caps. Should the oceans rise by 12m, their waters would roll through parts of New York, London, San Francisco and many other coastal cities. Dr Kaplan said the melting of the ice caps was being speeded by man's tremendous use of oil and gas which was "changing the Earth's atmosphere". The burning of fossil fuels was of such great magnitude that discharged gases were creating a "greenhouse" effect over the Earth. The gases were warming the atmosphere as far up as 26km, and would have a great effect on the Arctic and Antarctic ice masses. Dr Kaplan said heat control was an answer to the threat. "We are now working on a method of controlling man's environment and the temperature of the world. End The activities of the International Panel on Climate Change have come under deep suspicion for their unscientific "research" basis and questionable sources of temperature data. Last weekend, the London Sunday Times reported that more and more scientists are now persuaded that the IPCC's assessment, that the evidence of warming is "unequivocal" and by 2100 would have devastating impacts on humanity and wildlife, could no longer be sustained. Garth George Re Melting polar caps. People who use this as evidence of global warming show their ignorance, because the Vikings sailed across the North Pole every Summer. Also, those who now talk of Climate Change, could never have read of famines and floods in the Bible - about 2000 years ago in case they didn’t know when. * Twelve metres of water over all the oceans is impossible because there is a lot more sea than land and icebergs have a lot more under the sea than over it. The North Pole is a large floating iceberg. The disastrous Kyoto scam has been generated by cunning scientists wanting employment and overseas holidays at conferences. Their allowing the selling of pollution savings shows their insincerity. Vaughan Jones GrazingInfo Ltd Hamilton New Zealand |