Thursday, September 19, 2019

Inconvenient Climatic Facts Chronically Neglected part 2


It is vital to note that these details are based NOT on “conservative” or “Trumpian” opinions, but on scientific facts brought to light through scientifically-disciplined investigation.  In regard to Seattle for example, the scientific evidence for the glacier that buried that region consists of parallel north/south ridges (drumlins) along the direction of the glacier that are separated by rounded valleys, and vast layers of moraine (glacial gravel) and “erratics”[1] (boulders) carried there by glaciers, but later left behind when the glacial tongue melted.




  It is also crucial to note that these ice masses began retreating 16,000 years PRIOR to the 2nd Industrial Revolution (dated in the mid-1870s) with its introduction of mass-production and use of fossil fuels to power industry and transportation.  This neglected fact, in and of itself, refutes the alarmists’ assertion that people are a necessary cause of “runaway” global warming.  Indeed alarmists can only maintain their agenda by both ignoring such evidence and limiting their analytical timeline (AT) to about the last 150 years.[2]  For example, in my “google” search on the topic, “scholarly articles for shrinking glaciers and global warming,” of the first 65 web-sites (where I arbitrarily stopped), virtually all of them worked within the above AT, and neither of the two exceptions referencing older dates (4,000 y.a.) sought to reconcile them with con-temporary charges of human-caused CC.[3]  By way of illustration, retreating Athabaska Glacier (AG)[4] lying just north of the border between Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada, has heightened the allegation of our complicity in global warming.[5]  Yet that glacier is merely a tongue to what once was an immensely larger glacier, which is now (again, conveniently) never referenced in this context.  The rounded aspect of the huge valley trough which routes the famous “Icefields Parkway” proves that it was carved by 250 miles of glacier,[6] flowing two directions from a common beginning point, that vanished at the end of the last ice age.[7]  It is fully reasonable to assume that if these references to geological history didn’t challenge the CC agenda, the alarmists would eagerly refute the challenge that I am posing.  So, their silence is palpable and their chronic failure to concede the above data is very telling.

If we are to really believe that it is the purpose of the CC agenda to save our planet, then questions demand to be asked which confront the following incoherent circumstances:

Firstly, at the same time that CC alarmists (CCA) insist on overhauling both our society’s economic philosophy and our industrial means of production and transportation, they themselves exhibit no signs of self-reform in their own personal, private lives.



[3] Boldface mine.  Search dated September 24, 2019, beginning 9:20 am.
[4] Pictures from differing time periods can easily be accessed on a search engine under the words, “Athabaska Glacier.”
[6] Pictures from differing time periods can easily be accessed on a search engine under the words, “Icefields Parkway.”
[7] Provincial Museum of Alberta Publication. A Nature Guide to Alberta. (No. 5, 1980), p. 326.
                                                                                             To be continued...



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