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Further
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Lesson Terminology and Graphs |
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Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
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Lesson 1 |
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Review Graphs
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Terminology Lesson 1 |
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Vocabulary
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Proponent- n. |
One who argues in support of
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Amplify-v. |
1. to make larger, greater, or
stronger; enlarge; extend. 2. to expand in stating or
describing, as by details or illustrations; clarify by expanding |
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Reputed-adj. |
Reported or supposed to be such |
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Precede-v. |
To go before, as in place, order,
rank, importance, or time. |
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Effusing-v. |
To pour out or forth; shed;
disseminate |
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Amplify-v. |
To make larger, greater, or
stronger; enlarge; extend. |
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Variable-adj. |
apt or liable to vary or
change; changeable:
variable weather; variable moods. |
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Audit-n. |
1. An examination of records or
financial accounts to check their accuracy. 2. An adjustment or
correction of accounts. 3. An examined and verified account. |
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Emissions-n. |
A substance discharged into the air,
especially by an internal combustion engine. |
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Precipitation-n. |
The amount of rain, snow, hail,
etc., that has fallen at a given place within a given period,
usually expressed in inches or centimeters of water. |
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El Nino: A change in
the Pacific Ocean’s surface temperature by a few degrees Celsius.
These changes cause atmospheric conditions often resulting in rain,
thunderstorms or drought around the world. |
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CO2-Carbon Dioxide:
Large amounts of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere
from decaying vegetation, oceans, volcanoes, hot springs, and
geysers. A smaller amount is released into the atmosphere by
burning fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, natural gas) and vegetable
matter. Less than 2 percent of all CO2 is in the
atmosphere and over 93 percent is in the oceans. CO2 is
used by plants for photosynthesis. It is required for plant growth
and development. Increased CO2 levels have been shown to
increase crop production and make farming in poor conditions, such
as desert areas and areas with poor soils. |
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Paleoclimatic Data: Measurements resulting
from the study of climate before instrumental weather records
through ocean and lake sediments, cave deposits, tree rings, and ice
core analysis. |
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IPCC-
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
A political panel within the United Nations designed to
address global warming and create world policies to reduce human
impact on global warming.
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RECENT VIDEO: |
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The Hockey Stick and Heat Island Science Fraud:
The Hockey Stick fraud is even worse than originally thought as
two totally different data sources were used to create the hockey
stick curve and the Heat Island Effect is not excluded in the global
temperature data, which artificially increases warming in the latter
twentieth century. |
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Massive Data Fraud in NOAA and NASA:
Segment 4 of Global Warming, The Other Side. The data
used by NOAA and NASA is shown to have excluded temperature data
from northern latitudes and high elevations since 1980 which
automatically shows greatly increased temperatures that supposedly
shows great man-caused global warming. Also discusses Britain's
Climate Research Unit's (CRU) massive data manipulation called
Climategate. |
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The Amazing Story of Al Gore, Global
Governance, & The United Nations' IPCC. Segment 2
of Global Warming, The Other Side. The story of Roger Revelle
and Al Gore and Maurice Strong and the UN IPCC. Gore's mentor.
Revelle did early research on carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. He
then had Gore as a student (Gore got a D for the class) where Gore
heard of the idea of global warming for this first time. Late
scientist and teacher Revelle eventually realized that CO2 is not a
significant greenhouse gas, but Gore dismissed Revelle as senile and refused
Revelle's later revelations. The UN's Maurice Strong fell into the trap of the same bad
science and now the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
holds on to its global warming claims despite the failure of its
computer models to verify. |
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Lesson 2 |
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Review Graphs
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Terminology Lesson 2 |
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Vocabulary
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Prejudice |
1. An adverse judgment or opinion
formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the
facts. 2. A preconceived preference or idea. 3. a partiality
that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation [syn:
bias] Predetermined-to settle or decide in advance |
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Predicted |
To state, tell about, or make known
in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge. |
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Bias |
1. a particular tendency or
inclination, esp. one that prevents unprejudiced consideration
of a question; prejudice. 2. An unfair act or policy stemming
from prejudice. |
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Modulate |
fix or adjust the time, amount,
degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the
pitch" |
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Escalate |
To increase, enlarge, or intensify |
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Catastrophic |
1. a sudden and widespread disaster
2. a sudden, violent disturbance, esp. of a part of the surface
of the earth; cataclysm. |
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Consensus |
An opinion or position reached by a
group as a whole |
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Anthropogenic |
caused or produced by humans |
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Temperature
Gradient: In atmospheric sciences (meteorology,
climatology and related fields), the temperature gradient
(typically of air, more generally of any fluid) is the rate of
change of temperature from one point to another. In climate science,
the greater the temperature gradient (the greater the difference in
temperatures), the stronger or more violent the storm. |
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The laws of physics demand that the fastest
warming caused by greenhouse gases occur from about 30oN
to 30oS, and between about 6 km and 14 km (3.7 to 8.7
miles) in altitude as shown between the dashed vertical and
horizontal lines in this graph. The two graphs below indicate how
high this is and where the 30oN parallel crosses the
United States. So the fastest warming will occur south of the United
States from 3.7 to 8.7 miles in altitude. Warming also increases
faster at the earth's surface above 45o north or lower
than 45o south. (Click on
the graph to enlarge it). The problem is that this is not the
type of warming that earth is
actually
experiencing. Hence, it is highly unlikely that CO2 is the
driving force of global warming. (See
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Troposphere: The troposphere is the lowest portion of the
earth’s atmosphere. It is about 14 Km (9.3 mi) in depth. The middle
troposphere is between 7 to 12 Km (5 to 8 mi) in altitude.
(Click on the graph to enlarge it).
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troposphere is the layer of atmosphere closest to the earth
and about 14 (9.3 mi) thick.
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30o North Latitude: The
northern extent of the greenhouse gas-caused warming in the northern
hemisphere is about 30oN. This parallel goes more or less
along the US/Mexico boarder along the gulf coastline, cutting
through New Orleans and through northern Florida.
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The Tropical
Zone: An area between
Tropic of Cancer (23.5 N. latitude) and the Tropic of Capricorn
(23.5 S. latitude) on the equatorial region of the earth. This
is a little smaller than the northern and southern extend of the
mid-tropospheric warming expected from greenhouse gases. |
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El Nino: A
change in the Eastern Pacific Ocean’s surface temperature by a few degrees
Celsius. These changes cause atmospheric conditions often
resulting in rain, thunderstorms or drought around the world.
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Global Warming: Global warming is a
term that has been used to describe a period in recent history when
the earth’s surface temperature warmed. There have been three
periods of global warming since 1850; from 1860 to 1880, 1915 to
1945, 1975 to 1998 (see graph). The most recent warming was
originally thought to be caused by the emissions by man of carbon
dioxide, commonly called by its scientific name CO2. Each period of
warming was separated by a period of global cooling. The
warming/cooling cycles, and their associated change in precipitation
patterns are called climate change. Climate change has been
occurring for the past 11,000 years since the last ice age. |
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Greenhouse Gases:
Greenhouse gases are those gases that
allow most solar radiation (mainly visible light) to penetrate to
the earth’s surface, but absorb thermal infrared radiation emitted
by the earth’s surface. As solar energy reaches the earth’s surface
some of it is reflected back out into space, some is absorbed by the
atmosphere, and the rest is absorbed by the earth and warms it. The
warm earth then emits infrared radiation which we cannot see. Most
of this infrared radiation is absorbed by the various greenhouse
gases, much of which is emitted back down to the surface of the
earth where it starts the cycle again. This cycle is called the
greenhouse effect because it acts somewhat like a greenhouse in
that it allows the sunlight to penetrate the greenhouse, but as the
greenhouse warms, the glass ceiling and walls prevent most of the
heat from escaping. |
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NGO- Non-governmental Organization:
A nonprofit group or association like the Sierra Club or Nature
Conservancy organized outside of institutionalized political
structures to realize particular social objectives (such as
conserving nature) or serve particular constituencies (such as local
communities). |
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RECENT VIDEOS: |
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The UN IPCC Fraud:
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is
supposed to be the last word on unbiased science concerning global
warming. In fact, the IPCC stifles any science that contradicts its
man-caused mantra. It must not be used to justify cap and trade
legislation. |
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Why Climate Models Are Wrong: Climate models make fundamentally wrong assumptions that makes it appear
earth will suffer runaway warming. These models are inevitably wrong every
time. Dr. Roy Spencer explains in easy to understand language current
climate models are wrong because they assume positive feedbacks that are
not real in nature, rather than negative feedbacks which have been proven to be
real. Dr. Spencer describes a much simpler model that explains climate variation
in the 20th century. |
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Lesson 3 |
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Review Graphs
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Terminology Lesson 3 |
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Pessimistic |
1. A tendency
to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest
possible view 2. The doctrine or belief that this is the worst
of all possible worlds and that all things ultimately tend
toward evil. |
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Accumulated |
1. to gather into a heap, mass,
cover, etc.; form a steadily increasing quantity 2. to mount up;
increase |
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Decline |
To cause to decrease or diminish; go
down |
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Indicate |
to be a sign of; betoken; evidence;
show
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Correlation |
mutual relation of two or more
things, parts, etc. |
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Detrimental |
causing
detriment; damaging; harmful. |
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Analysis |
this process as
a method of studying the nature of something or of determining
its essential features and their relations |
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Verification |
evidence that
establishes or confirms the accuracy or truth of something |
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Theory |
In science, an
explanation or model that covers a substantial group of
occurrences in nature and has been confirmed by a substantial
number of experiments and observations. A theory is more general
and better verified than a
hypothesis. |
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Corrupted |
containing errors or alterations |
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Connotation |
an idea that is implied or
suggested |
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Sun’s Magnetic Fields
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This image reveals the
structure of the solar magnetic field rising vertically from a
sunspot |
This solar corona reveals
heated magnetic loops |
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The Sun's Magnetic
Fields: Just like the earth, the sun has magnetic
fields. While the earth has one magnetic north, and one magnetic
south pole, the sun has many. These magnetic fields on the sun can
be twice as strong as the magnetic fields on the earth and extend
far out into space. Gas rising from the sun’s corona interacts with
the magnetic field which releases energy and may power solar storms
which can affect the earth.
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Cosmic
Radiation/Cosmic Rays: particle energies that bombard
the earth from outside its atmosphere are considered cosmic Rays
they are made up of mostly protons (90%), helium (9%), and
electrons (1%). Solar cosmic rays come from the sun and have
similar energies as the sun itself.
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Supernova: A stellar
explosion that causes a burst of radiation that can be seen for
several weeks or months. It occurs at the end of a star’s life when
the nuclear fuel is exhausted and the star collapses in on itself.
Often the amount of radiation put off by a super nova is more than
the sun will give off in it’s lifetime. One of the most widely
observed supernova produced the Crab Nebula. |
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Solar Flares: Intense short
bursts of energy lasting minutes to hours. The primary source of
solar Flares appears to be caused by tearing and reconnection of the
sun’s magnetic field. |
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Solar winds: Streams of
charged particles escape the sun’s gravity. It can cause
geomagnetic storms, aurora borealis, and plasma tails on comets.
These storms have the ability to knock out power grids on earth.
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The Carbon Footprint: The
carbon footprint is a political construct designed to create fear
that man was causing global warming. Carbon dioxide is not, cannot
be a pollutant. It is a miracle gas that is essential for life on
earth. It was ten times more abundant in geologic history. All
plants on earth are CO2 starved. So increased levels of carbon
dioxide has been a blessing to ecosystems and food production.
Scientists have found that the increased CO2 in the atmosphere has
already increased global food production 12 percent. It is a free
fertilizer. |
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Your Carbon Footprint is Not Creating a
Climate Crisis: Segment 1of Global Warming,
The Other Side. Refutes the bad science
behind the global warming frenzy. We explain the hypothesis of your
carbon footprint, the result of the CO2 that enters the atmosphere
as a result of burning of fossil fuels to support your lifestyle. We
show how that theory has failed to verify and has proven to be
wrong. |
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Debunking the Global Warming Frenzy & Dire
Predictions. Segment 1of Global Warming,
The Other Side. The global warming frenzy is
full of dire predictions of melting ice, dying polar bears, flooding
coastlines, heat waves, superstorms and epidemics. This segment
debunks them all. |
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Review the graphs and
charts used in the DVD. (Click on graph)
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Advanced Reading |
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Nature, Not Human
Activity, Rules the Climate
Fred Singer Ph.D., Editor |
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A Climate of
Belief by Patrick Frank,.Ph.D. |
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A
Summary for Policy Makers written by 23 top international climate
scientists that summarizes all of the science on climate
change for the past five years. It parallels the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 Summary for Policy
Makers, but includes peer reviewed science the IPCC left out.
http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC-Feb%2020.pdf
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An
article summarizing recent research findings by seven leading
scientists climate scientists in the United States.
http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v14n01
resources/climate_of_belief.pdf
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