* These are my answers to the guide questions for a live interview on “ECO-Hour episode,” DZAR 1026 Sonshine Radio Manila, 2-3pm today, hosted by Jomel and Rascille Laranas.
Climate
alarmism vs climate realities
1. What
is your reaction on the research which said that 72% of Filipinos are very
concerned about climate change? Are you one of the 72%? Why or Why not?
à
Expected. Many Filipinos and people in the world are stilled hoodwinked by the
climate alarmism movement.
2. Should
climate change or global warming be a cause of alarm among us? Or is the media
projecting it in a way that will somehow threaten us or push us to action? Can
we say that ‘climate change is nothing but a lie’?
à
No.CC and GW are true, they are not lies, but they are cyclical and natura.
What is a big lie is the adjective “man-made” and forgetting or deliberately,
explicitly removing “nature-made.”
Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, Senate
EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s Happened Before”,
July 19th 2013.
3. Does
it mean that every extreme weather event is NOT caused by climate change? Is
the Typhoon Haiyan caused by climate change?
à
No. There have been extreme weather in the past – severe cooling, severe
warming and droughts. More rains or less rains, more typhoons or less typhoons,
they have happened in the past, will happen tomorrow.
4. You
have a study about “Man-made Global Warming” in 2009. Can you tell us what is
it all about?
a. Climate change (CC) is true. It happened in
the past, happening now, will happen in
the future. Global warming (GW) is true, happened in the past (RWP, MWP, last
century warming) and will happen again in the future. Global cooling is also
true, happened in the past, happening now.
b. CC is natural (nature-made, not
“man-made”), it is cyclical (warming-cooling-warming-cooling), and has
precedents (not “unprecedented”). Like wet-dry season cycle,
winter-spring-summer-fall cycle, evaporation-condensation hydrologic cycle,
c. Long-term temperature-CO2 relationship,
some studies say temperature leads CO2, other studies say it’s the reverse.
Common denominator, there are precedents of warm-cool period, lasting for
decades and centuries.
5. Is
there a difference between climate alarmism and climate skepticism?
à
Yes. Climate alarmism puts heavy emphasis on “man-made” or anthropogenic GW/CC.
Climate skepticism recognizes CC but it questions the “anthropogenic” main
cause. Nature – the Sun, galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), water vapor, clouds,
volcanoes, PDO, AMO, etc. -- play much greater roles in planet Earth’s warming
or cooling phases. See for instance IPCC model temp. projections vs. actual
temperatures.
Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/
6. If
we read that the glaciers are melting in the Arctic region due to global
warming, should it really cause an alarm?
à
No. Ice and glaciers in the Arctic, in Greenland (and Antarctica) are melting-growing,
every year. Part of natural cycle.
7. What
can you say about groups pushing for the mitigation of climate change as part
of the 17 new sustainable development goals?
à
Mainly the huge money involved. See portions of my presentation at Dr. Alvin
Ang’s graduate class on Public Finance, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon
City, 28 January 2015, entitled “Climate
Money: Wastes, Distortions and Scientific Dishonesty Behind It.”
Plus the huge perks – frequent climate junkets
around the world, participants are
burning huge volume of fossil fuels due to their frequent jet sets. Plus ego
tripping, they can dictate to the rest of us what energy source we can use,
what we cannot.
8. How
should we view climate change and global warming as Filipinos? Do you think it
is okay for politicians to ride on this environmental issue as part of their
political agenda?
à
CC and GW are natural (nature-made, not man-made) and cyclical
(warming-cooling-warming-cooling…). Politicians, and many NGOs and media
leaders, academics, etc. – ALL of them ride the alarmism bandwagon.
9. On
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, is it mere science fiction? About the Pope’s
‘Laudato Si’ – is he just being ‘influenced’ to believe on climate alarmism?
à
Al Gore’s something like 10% truth, 90% fiction.
The Pope’s, advising people to take care of
the planet is good. Advising them to demonize fossil fuels and CO2 is wrong. The Pope and his entourage is among the heavy
users of fossil fuels, he travels a lot by jumbo jets, and those jets do not fly on water but on fossil
fuel.
10. According
to some groups, ‘coal is the demon incarnate’ for it causes unprecedented
increase in greenhouse gases. What is your take on this?
à
They keep miseducating and fooling
the public. If there are no coal
power plants in Luzon at this moment, most likely people will be using those
noisy gensets that run on fossil fuel diesel, or using candles, because of
frequent brown outs.
Existing major power plants in Luzon, early
2014. Coal is 4,531 MW, followed by big hydro, 2,445 MW, nat gas 2,861 MW.
See also:
Climate Tricks 39: Many Attacks on Dr. Willie Soon, He Replied, March 03, 2015
Climate Tricks 40: Arrest Climate Change Deniers, April 11, 2015
Climate Tricks 40: Arrest Climate Change Deniers, April 11, 2015
Climate Tricks 41, CO2 Leads Temperature, or Vice Versa?, June 14, 2015
Climate Tricks 42, SDGs and Jeffrey Sachs, oil and warming planet, August 05, 2015
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