Editor,
Ed Kahl’s letter to the editor titled, “How to best deal with climate warming” raises an important question regarding the role that hydrogen should play in transitioning to a clean economy, but it’s astonishing that he would cite “The Neglected Sun: How the Sun Precludes Climate Catastrophe” to suggest that “man is only 50% responsible for climate warming,” when it is well-established that all of the current global warming is human-caused.
The original German title of “The Neglected Sun” was “Die Kalt Sonne: Warum die Klimakatastrophe Nicht Stattfindet” (“The Cold Sun: Why the Climate Crisis Isn’t Happening”) published in 2012. Its authors claimed that global temperatures would drop 0.2 to 0.3 degrees Celsius by 2035. Since then, the mean global surface temperature has, in fact, risen 0.2 C.
Die Kalt Sonne’s false prediction was in line with the widely propagated denialists’ claim of the time that global warming had stopped but, of course, every single year since Die Kalt Sonne came out has been hotter than the year it was published. Indeed, the nine hottest years on record have occurred in the last nine years. 2022 will push that streak to 10 out of 10. Unfortunately, bogus, zombie claims like those in Die Kalt Sonne live on long after they have been debunked.
Alan Mattlage
San Mateo
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(4) comments
Speaking of false predictions, Mr. Mattlage, perhaps you can remind us of what occurred after the Rapture and Al Gore’s first end of the world prediction in 2016. Remember in 2008 when “experts” predicted the Arctic was to be ice-free by 2018. Al Gore needed a second end of the world prediction because his first prediction failed miserably (sorry, I don’t know which year Mr. Gore’s thinks the world will end – again). Or results of any predictions of the end of the world due to global warming. Um, spoiler alert – nothing happened because it is well established that global warming is a man-made construct which has no effect on Mother Nature.
As for those lecturing us on this supposed man-made global warming disaster, why, just last year, did 30,000+ people fly into Scotland for COP26 – including an estimated 400 aircraft and over 50 private jets (none electric that I know of)? Or this year’s COP27, where another 30,000+ people are flying into Egypt polluting up a storm to their hearts’ desires. Sorry, hypocrisy doesn’t make for effective messaging. Until they walk the walk, nobody is listening to their virtue signaling.
Claim:
Al Gore predicted that Earth’s “ice caps” would melt away by 2014.
What's True
In the late 2000s, Al Gore made a series of high-profile statements suggesting the possibility that Arctic sea ice could be completely gone during the summer by around 2013 or 2014.
What's False
Gore did not himself make these predictions but said (in some cases erroneously) that others had, and he never referred to a year-long lack of ice for both poles but instead largely referenced Arctic sea ice in the summer.
That Al Gore made an inaccurate statement, does not contradict the overwhelming evidence that climate change is an existential threat to humans and the ecosystems we love and depend on.
Thanks Alan. Excellent points.
The point of my letter was that what ever the cause of global warming, we need to focus in on hydrogen as the most reasonable and affordable way to replace fossil fuels.
The book I read was published later in 2015 in which the authors said they believed that man is probably 50% responsible for climate change. This is because by that time physicists at CERN had shown how the Sun’s cyclical magnetic particle radiation changed earth's climate through its affect on cloud cover. But unfortunately the left and the UN prefer the issue to a solution because the can raise money with it.
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