“If only the president had consulted the history of Glacier Bay … he would have found a different story. It is a historical fact that the glacier in Glacier Bay began its retreat around 1750 … (and) by the time Capt. George Vancouver arrived there in 1794 the glacier still filled the bay. When John Muir visited in 1879 he found that the glacier had retreated more than 30 miles … and by 1900 Glacier Bay was ice-free.” – Patrick Moore*
President Obama continued to spew his alarmist views on climate change during his visit to Alaska’s Glacier Bay, where climate change has been naturally taking place for thousands of years. (todayszaman.com)
So wrote Moore in a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s Half-Baked Alaska.” He followed with, “All of this happened long before human emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, could have had any impact.”
It supports the statement I made in my Sept. 1, post, “The CO2 myth,” that “Temperatures and CO2 levels of today have been recorded in years before the invention of the combustion engine,” and that “even if we were to stop all transportation and shut down our industry, it would not have any impact on global warming.”
Moore also supports my criticism of the president for his alarmist views on climate change in which the president referred to the receding glaciers as evidence that humans are the cause of “dangerous,” even “catastrophic,” climate change.
During the some 4,000 years the Huna Tlingit people have lived there, reported Moore, they have retreated and advanced a number of times during climate change, but it had nothing to do with human activity.
“The fashionable tendency to blame every change in climate and every extreme-weather event on human emissions,” Moore writes, “is doing a great disservice the science tradition.”
Finally, almost as if he read my post, “Global warming? Follow the money,” Moore is critical of those leaders who want us to “subsidize green technologies (Solyndra); and the climate activists who want their money-machine (climate study grants) to keep on giving.”
*- Patrick Moore is the chairman of Ecology and Energy with Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Canada, and is the director of the CO2 Coalition in Washington D.C. A member of the controversial Greenpeace organization from 1971-1986, Moore quit “when it took a sharp turn to the political left and turned into an organization of extremism and politically motivated agendas.”
