''The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.'' ~ Arnold H. Glasow
At MISTRAL we abhor waste of any kind and we also share sensible concerns not to pollute our planet. To that end Mistral's products can help considerably.
Furthermore, if the Global Warming phenomenon was real then Mistral would of course have a vested interest in campaigning.
After all, saving energy is one of the key benefits our systems provide. However, Mistral is obliged to deal only in
facts. Our conscience prohibits us therefore from cynically adopting the herd mantra, as so many corporations do, purely for marketing or PR reasons.
Mistral believes that -
Global Warming is a myth. Simply 'pseudo science' promulgated by those lacking the intellectual capacity to understand the physics of both
meteorology and of thermodynamics. Blindly following a consensus where the public's real agenda is fuelled by a culture of jealousy and envy against
those that have worked harder than most to provide themselves with modern essentials and yes, even civilisation’s legally traded comforts.
As evidenced
by the victimisation of air travellers and SUV or 4 X 4 car owners for example. Blind faith coupled with levels of human arrogance only paralleled
throughout history
by religious bigotry and fanaticism. The agenda of governments and large corporations is of course more sinister. To frighten a gullible public into
consuming less but at the same
time as parting with more money for the privilege!
Proof that contradicts the theories of Global Warming is actively suppressed, both by an hysterical media whose profits no one can deny are dependant
upon sensationalism and by
transient democratic governments pandering for voters from the ranks of popular opinion. Regrettably even such contrary evidence as does surface is
often too esoteric though for unqualified but dangerously misinformed devotees of the Global Warming myth to comprehend.
Persecution, victimisation and vendettas launched as ‘Protecting the Environment’ against challengers to the Global Warming myth would be
considered both an outrage and certainly illegal if perpetrated anywhere in the civilised world in the name of any other prejudice.
To be a scientist or an engineer that understands the physics requires years of training and experience combined with informed application of facts
based upon proven and repeatable scientific experiment. Gaining quedos from ones peers by being seen as ‘Green’ merely requires 'parrot learning' then
reciting of the herd mantra.
What 'Environmentalists' cannot or will not answer.
Global Warming fantasists explain that when all the ice from Greenland finally melts, sea levels will rise globally by eight metres, at the same time as
claiming forty percent has already disappeared over the period of the last century. Yet there was absolutely no sea level rise accompanying
that forty percent penultimate disappearance. How do they explain that? When their hysterical theory depends upon ignorance of the volume of ice and the
mass of water, combined with flawed mathematics of the area of the planet’s oceans after such flooding, to say nothing of the crazy notion that
Greenland’s mean ice field depth exceeds the height of the tallest mountain on the island continent, then it is hardly surprising they have thus
far failed to do so!
Environmentalists flock to the Maldives (presumably on Soya Bean or cow dung powered aircraft!) lamenting that the archipelago is shortly to be
inundated, yet Maldives inhabitants, from the country’s leader down, refute seeing any change or loss of land over the last century. Why?
East Anglia in the United Kingdom environmentalists tell us is gradually disappearing into the rising sea. Has no one heard of coastal erosion? We hear
less though about
falling sea levels throughout the west coast of the British Isles resulting from the action of geophysical plate tectonics as the islands slowly
rotate about an horizontal axis.
Mount St Helens exploded in 1980 throwing more ozone depleting gases, particulates and CO2 into the atmosphere in less than a week than mankind has during
his last forty thousand years occupancy of the planet. Yet it is almost never mentioned. Why not?
Whilst pondering over what Mount St Helens did maybe a little attention could be given to what the following fifty or so currently active volcanoes are up to right now as well.
Let's put it this way, you've probably seen the red sky at night ('Shepherd's delight' and all that)? Good, because it doesn't come from the exhaust pipe of any 4 x 4 or even the funnels of all the world's super tankers. Red skies were around a long time before Land Rover or Conoco. Red skies result from colour spectrum changes caused by high altitude dust or 'particulates'. The particulates originating to a lesser extent from massive desert dust storms but as these seldom reach high altitudes then mainly from the activities of these:-
Akutan
Collectively these babies also emit more ozone depleting gases, particulates and CO2 into the atmosphere in a single day, each day, every day, than
mankind has in his total existence! Just as well too because without them our planet would be uninhabitable. By any flora or fauna as we know it.
Including of course - us! Any comment anyone?
If all Arctic ice disappears (and we're not saying it won’t, we're only saying mankind’s efforts aren’t the reason!) then we claim that it would be
impossible for sea levels to rise, or even for that matter to fall, by as much as a single drop. We're not going to bother explaining why but anyone too
stupid
to understand the basic Archimedian physics involved should find an eight year old schoolboy of average intelligence to demonstrate with a tumbler full
of water and an ice cube!
Finally, The sun delivers energy to planet Earth at a mean constant 1,366 Watts per square metre per day. The vast and awesome (in human terms at least!)
powerhouse of geothermal nuclear fusion emits a further
paltry 0.075 Watts per square metre per day. At Mistral we already know what man’s contribution is from nuclear fission and fossil fuel consumption (all
‘renewables' ignored of course as these are anyway ‘Solar’ or in the case of tidal power, mainly 'Lunar'). This is because we’ve been involved as engineers
in the power generation and energy industry for forty
years but if we tell you then you probably won’t remember. And you need to know and to remember! The figures anyway aren't difficult to find.
Just expect to see a lot of '0's after the decimal point once you've calculated the additional gain per square metre!
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol calls for mandatory carbon dioxide reductions of 30% from developed countries like the U.S. Reducing man-made CO2 emissions this much
would
have an undetectable effect on climate while having a devastating effect on the U.S. economy. Can you drive your car 30% less, reduce your winter heating
30%?
Pay 20-50% more for everything from automobiles to zippers? And that is just a down payment, with more sacrifices to come later.
Such drastic measures, even if imposed equally on all countries around the world, would reduce total human greenhouse contributions from CO2 by about
0.035%.
This is much less than the natural variability of Earth's climate system!
While the greenhouse reductions would exact a high human price, in terms of sacrifices to our standard of living, they would yield statistically negligible
results in terms of measurable impacts to climate change. There is no expectation that any statistically significant global warming reductions would
come from the Kyoto Protocol.
" There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future
temperatures
-- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "
Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist
Arenal
Askja
Avachinsky
Bardarbunga
Batur
Bezymianny
Bulusan
Canlaon
Cerro Negro
Cerro Quemado
Coatepeque
Erebus
Etna
Fogo Caldera
Fuego
Galeras
Gemini
Gorda Ridge
Grimsvotn
Hekla
Ilopango
Izalco
Karymsky
Katla
Kilauea
Klyuchevskoi
Krafla
Lassen
Loihi
Merapi
Metis
Pacaya
Parker
Pavlof
Pinatubo
Popocatepetl
Rabaul Caldera
Rincon de la Vieja
Ruapehu
San Miguel
San Salvador
San Vicente
Santa Ana
Santa María
Shishaldin
Spurr
Stromboli
Tacaná
Taupo
Unzen
Vestmannaeyjar
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia,
and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service;
in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal
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