Here are three issues that go against the man-made global warming argument.
The Ice is Melting
To start with, let's go back to 2016, where a National Geographic article states that Climate Change will affect penguin populations by warming seas that would cause the reduction of the krill and fish that penguins prey on.
Antarctica Could Lose Most of Its Penguins to Climate Change
Cimino explained the threat to the Adélie food supply: “Changes in [sea] ice and temperature can cause changes in the food, krill and fish.” In some areas, she continued, “the fish populations have gone down a ton, so their major diet in those areas is krill. In other areas, these penguins eat more fish, which are a more nutritious food source.”
Not only would this affect penguin population, but the same article suggests that warming weather would melt breeding grounds and turn them to mud. The mud and pools of water would make it impossible for eggs to survive and hatch new checks.
Climate change could also reduce the quality of many penguin nesting sites by precipitating changes in local weather. Antarctica’s climate is generally cold, dry, and harsh, but warming could yield unprecedented rain, or prematurely melt snowfall, creating puddles on the ground.
But, now, we find out from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) that Adélie penguins are dying because the sea ice is too thick. Parent penguins have to travel to far to reach open water in order to hunt for the krill and fish they eat.
Surviving mostly on a diet of krill, a small shrimp like crustacean, Adélie penguins are generally faring well in East Antarctica, but declining in the Antarctic peninsula region where climate change is well established. However, this significant breeding failure at this particular colony in East Antarctica has been linked to unusually extensive sea ice late in the summer, meaning the adult penguins had to travel further to forage for food for their chicks. As a result the chicks starved.
So, the issue isn't with the food and it isn't from pools of water destroying the eggs. The issue is with too much ice forming on one side of Antarctica.
I won't go into the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget other than, it looks like this year will be even more covered with ice than 2016.
On a side note, from the WWF, it seems that the polar bears aren't having a huge problem thriving.
Polar bear status, distribution & population
The Seas are Rising
The other argument, to go along with the melting sea ice, is that the seas are rising.
Back in 2015, a CBS News article was published stating the fear of the rising sea levels.
NASA: Sea level rise could be worse than we thought
"When heat goes under the ocean, it expands just like mercury in a thermometer," Steve Nerem, lead scientist for NASA's Sea Level Change Team at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in the press briefing.
The remaining two-thirds of sea level rise is occurring as a result of melting from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and mountain glaciers, Nerem said.
Data collected by a cadre of NASA satellites -- which change position in relation to one other as water and ice on the planet realign and affect gravity's tug -- reveal that the ocean's mass is increasing. This increase translates to a global sea level rise of about 1.9 millimeters (0.07 inches) per year, Nerem said.
Yes, the article points to both the Greenland and Antarctica ice melting. Well, you know where we are at that. But, what about NASA saying that the sea level rise could be increasing at a faster rate than expected. This is what they are saying in the article.
"Ice sheets are contributing to sea level rise sooner, and more than anticipated," said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
If this is true, then why did NASA release this article back in 2016?
NASA, University Study Shows Rising Seas Slowed by Increasing Water on Land
A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth’s continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.
Why would they want to offset the increase of sea level rise by 20 percent? That's a bit of a miss on the calculations. And some how the weather and climate has caused the Earth to soak up and store extra water? Did man turn Earth into a sponge on accident?
This seems to be an attempt to cover something up before they have to release more data that doesn't match what they said before.
zoomed in on the last few years
It seems their chart shows that sea levels are leveling out and actually dropped over the past two years. An article from WattsUpWithThat explains it more than NASA's site does.
Inconvenient: NASA shows global sea level…pausing, instead of rising
To recap, in 2015 NASA said that sea levels were going to start increasing fast than expected due to glacier melt from Greenland and Antarctica. Then in 2016, NASA states that sea level isn't increasing as fast, because rain is being dropped on land, instead of in the sea. Frankly, more rain on land seems like a good thing. More rain where crops grow. Now, NASA's charts are showing that the sea levels stopped rising in 2015 and they might have fallen a little bit. Sure, overall the sea levels are rising since they started keeping records, but just remember that recorded history is barely over 100 years old.
Man is Polluting the Atmosphere with CO2
My biggest issue with whole CO2 as a pollutant is that CO2 is plant food.
Let’s go back to 2013 and an article in Climate Central
Study Finds Plant Growth Surges as CO2 Levels Rise
They calculated that in these conditions, plants would make more leaves if they had the water to do so. “A leaf can extract more carbon from the air during photosynthesis, or lose less water to the air during photosynthesis, or both, due to elevated CO2,” says Donohue. That is the CO2 fertilization effect.
Okay, so if we have more CO2 and more water (see above about NASA saying that more water is falling on land) then you have increased plant growth. Increased plant growth means more plants and plants are the primary source of food for animals. More food for animals means more animal growth and increased populations. Doesn’t seem like more CO2 is a bad thing.
Also, in 2016 NASA created this article that almost needs no explaining.
CO2 is making Earth greener—for now
A quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
But, they think that eventually a greener planet would be a bad thing and we still need to stop the CO2 output, because it couldn’t be a natural process of the Earth the release CO2 and then retract the amount of CO2 released. Of course, that was until a few days ago.
NASA Pinpoints Cause of Earth’s Recent Record Carbon Dioxide Spike
Scientists suspected the 2015-16 El Nino -- one of the largest on record -- was responsible, but exactly how has been a subject of ongoing research. Analyzing the first 28 months of data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite, researchers conclude impacts of El Nino-related heat and drought occurring in tropical regions of South America, Africa and Indonesia were responsible for the record spike in global carbon dioxide.
Oh...that sucks for NASA. It looks like the Earth likes to belch out CO2 every now and then for no apparent reason.
In Summary
The seas aren’t rising (at any level faster than the known rate for the past 140 years of recorded weather history), the ice isn’t melting (it is actually stacking up and growing) and CO2 isn’t a bad thing. Sure, the penguins are having a hard time adopting to more sea ice than expected, but the polar bears are doing fine.
What's left in the climate change argument?
Right now, they are claiming sea ice melting and increasing are caused by the same thing. CO2 is bad and good for the Earth at the same time. The sea levels are increasing, pausing and decreasing due to climate change.
What can't climate change do?
You will find out soon that it will cause colder temperatures across the world, so look out for that next Global Tax to fix something that the consensus can't even agree that it is doing.
Be a good steward to the Earth.
Don't harm people in attempts to make climate change, like they are doing in Australia.
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