Guest essay by Rod Martin, Jr.
Global Warming Made Civilization Possible
Let’s face it. Ice Age glacial conditions were brutal. Because the oceans were cooler, there was less evaporation and less rain. Because of this, there were more and larger deserts. The temperate zone was virtually threatened with extinction—squeezed between huge deserts and monstrous glaciation.
Because polar cold was far closer to equatorial heat, violent storms were stronger and more numerous. Heat alone does not cause wind to blow. That requires thermal potential—a temperature gradient between extremes. Venus has plenty of heat, but zero wind. On our sister planet, million-year-old craters show zero wind erosion, because the surface temperature is the same everywhere.
We shouldn’t have to argue whether or not warming is happening; we should educate ourselves on the vast benefits of warming and figure out how we can have more of it. Otherwise—change being the one true constant—we will end up with more cold.
The last thing we need is Global Cooling, like that suggested by CIA Director Brennan at a recent meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. Particles in the air to reflect sunlight is a bad idea. We only need to look at what happened in 1816—the Year Without Summer—to see how bad Brennan’s “lovely” idea is. People starved to death with particulates cooling down the planet. Crops failed. Masses of refugees fled to warmer climate. I don’t think Brennan is an uneducated idiot. The only other possible reason for his suggestion isn’t pretty.
Global Warming doesn’t burn up anything or give Earth a fever, as NASA so unscientifically claimed. Most warming goes to the poles. The bulk of its work is in melting deadly ice.
Why is there such an ice fetish? Polar bears don’t need ice. During the far warmer Eemian interglacial of the current Ice Age, they did just fine surviving for hundreds of years in the open waters of the Arctic Ocean. If you want cold, go live on Mars. As long as we have our liquid oceans, we’re protected. Earth won’t burn up until the sun grows old in another few billion years.
How Global Warming Paved the Way to Civilization
Twelve thousand years ago, after thousands of years of global warming, the oceans warmed sufficiently to generate significantly more evaporation and more rain. Deserts started to shrink. Life started to blossom across the surface of Earth. Populations started to grow. A few incidents of glacial melt flooding into the oceans interrupted the relatively smooth progress of warming, but eventually we got past them.
With rivers flowing more consistently, agriculture was now a possibility. Humans gathered together. No longer was food acquisition the primary concern for every member of society. People could start investigating nature to develop science and technology. Civilization was born.
During the far warmer Holocene Optimum—a global phenomenon—the Sahara was green. Some warming alarmists are often fond of saying that global warming would be disruptive. The “skeptical science” website even has a logo showing a form of this disruption—a penguin startled to see a shoot of green coming up from the ice. Ironically, this particular breed of warming alarmists is afraid of life. Let that fact sink in for a minute; for then it will be easier to understand how psychopaths like Brennan can suggest creating deadly cold for all of humanity.
With global warming, we could have abundant life all the way to the poles.
The tropics would remain virtually the same, except that they would be calmer. Violent storms would become rare if the don’t disappear altogether. Deserts would shrink drastically. There is no guarantee, but the Sahara could be green again. And the temperate zones would swallow up all that dead terrain currently ruled by ice.
Would species need to move? Perhaps, but a turtle could walk to its new climate zone in a few months. The next generation of oak could be growing in its new climate zone within a few short years. Farming could take up even more land. And land without soil could start to gain that precious, life-benefiting earth.
Global warming is good. End the slander! And with warming good, then CO2 is off the hook, too. The only reason carbon dioxide was ever made into a villain is because of the slander against warming. Yes, industries pump out lots of the stuff, but so do all animals when they exhale. And industry also pumps out lots of water vapor—a greenhouse gas. We’re not going to reduce our water footprints, are we? Most regions need the rain.
And if global warming could make civilization possible, could global cooling make civilization impossible?
Rod Martin, Jr. is the lead author at GlobalWarmth.org and the author of Thermophobia: Shining a Light on Global Warming.
References:
http://globalwarmth.org/blog/global-warming-civilization-possible/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=057GgxpZWRc
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At the first hint of a return to a LIA I suggest we separate north and south America at the Isthmus and bring ice ages to an end. The gradual reopening of the Central American Seaway should prevent glaciation.
One other point, Homo Erectus doubled its brain size because of global cooling.
Maybe there will be less rain during cooling, but there will always be glacial ice melt at the snouts of glaciers, which will feed rivers perfectly happily all summer. OK, humanity would need to devise better water distribution systems using ditches, dikes etc, particularly using them during rarer flood episodes (since rainfall would generally be less), but honestly, you don’t need so much rain if the temperature is a bit cooler as the ground releases less water to evaporation from the soil if temperatures are cooler.
The reality is that adaptation is possible to most scenarios, as long as you don’t think you’ll be growing wheat in Canada in an ice age. You won’t. In cold spells agricultural growing zones move south, whereas during warming periods they move north. Forestry zones move south too. Cold is good for forests as brutal winter cold kills of parasites which can destroy forests if it gets too warm. Several crops do better with cooler weather too as their pest profiles are improved.
As for CIA Director Brennan, why not just call a spade a spade?
‘I do hope he isn’t a pathological psychopath who thinks eliminating 8 billion humans for Agenda 21 through global cooling is a good idea….’
There: someone who isn’t scrabbling in the power games saying what needs to be said but won’t be said by those who would replace them.
You want to eliminate Agenda 21, global cooling, you call it like it is.
If your power games are more important to you than calling the truth, don’t call yourselves leaders.
Leaders call it as it is……….
Good article.
It would be reckless, if not outright dangerous, to experiment with deliberate aerosol-induced cooling. We’re already headed for cooler temperatures, thanks to diminishing solar activity.
I am delighted to see your article with so much downright common sense.
Our current beneficial, warm Holocene interglacial has been the enabler of mankind’s civilisation for the last 10,000 years. The congenial climate of the Holocene epoch spans from mankind’s earliest farming to the scientific and technological advances of the last 100 years.
However all the Northern Hemisphere Ice Core records from Greenland show:
the last millennium 1000AD – 2000AD has been the coldest millennium of the entire Holocene interglacial.
each of the notable high points in the Holocene temperature record, (Holocene Climate Optimum – Minoan – Roman – Medieval – Modern), have been progressively colder than the previous high point.
for its first 7-8000 years the early Holocene, including its high point “climate optimum”, had virtually flat temperatures, an average drop of only ~0.007 °C per millennium.
but the more recent Holocene, since a “tipping point” at ~1000BC, has seen a temperature diminution at more than 20 times that earlier rate at about 0.14 °C per millennium.
the Holocene interglacial is already 10 – 11,000 years old and judging from the length of previous interglacials the Holocene epoch should be drawing to its close: in this century, the next century or this millennium.
the beneficial warming at the end of the 20th century to the Modern high point has been transmuted into the “Great Man-made Global Warming Scare”.
eventually this late 20th century temperature blip will come to be seen as just noise in the system in the longer term progress of comparatively rapid cooling over the last 3000+ years.
When considering the scale of temperature changes that alarmists anticipate because of Man-made Global Warming and their view of the disastrous effects of additional Man-made Carbon Dioxide emissions in this century, it is useful to look at climate change from a longer term, century by century and even on a millennial perspective.
The much vaunted and much feared “fatal” tipping point of +2°C would only bring Global temperatures close to the level of the very congenial climate of “the Roman warm period”.
If it were possible to reach the “horrendous” level of +4°C postulated by Warmists, that extreme level of warming would still only bring temperatures to about the level of the previous Eemian maximum, a warm and abundant epoch, when hippopotami thrived in the Rhine delta.
see
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/the-holocene-context-for-anthropogenic-global-warming-2/
edmh, good points. According to W.S. Broecker (1998), the Holocene is already 500-6,000 years older than the average interglacial. The longest interglacial as far as I can see was about 28,000 years, but that was by far the longest. Next was about 18,000 years. According to the graph by Alley (2000; available on the paleoclimate page on this website), the last few warm periods of the last 10,700 years have been getting progressively cooler. With the Little Ice Age thrown in there, it looks like the Holocene may already have started winding down. See my original article linked in the references section for my own color-coded graph of Alley’s data.