Puget Sound Islanders Look for Hope, Climate Solutions

Puget Sound Islanders Look for Hope, Climate Solutions

Islanders Look for Hope, Climate Solutions, in the January 22 Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber link at https://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/islanders-look-for-hope-climate-solutions/

RESPONSES:

Washington’s Vashon Island residents may be concerned when they hear reports that the world isn’t doing enough on climate change, but they would be very relieved to be informed that the NOAA National Climatic Data Center Climate at a Glance website at www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/ reports the official Washington climate change data indicating that:

• Meteorological winter (December – February) temperatures in Washington’s Puget Sound Lowlands Climate Division have officially trended downward at a rate of 0.2 degrees F per decade during the last 30 winters from 1990 to 2019, even as Washington’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations have continued to increase.
• Meteorological winter (December – February) temperatures in Washington’s Puget Sound Lowlands Climate Division have officially trended downward at a rate of 0.6 degrees F per decade during the last 20 winters from 2000 to 2019, even as Washington’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations have continued to increase.
• Meteorological winter (December – February) temperatures in Washington’s Puget Sound Lowlands Climate Division have officially trended downward at a rate of 1.5 degrees F per decade during the last 10 winters from 2010 to 2019, even as Washington’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations have continued to increase.
• Meteorological winter (December – February) temperatures in Washington’s Puget Sound Lowlands Climate Division have officially trended downward at a rate of 13.2 degrees F per decade during the last 5 winters from 2015 to 2019, even as Washington’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations have continued to increase!

Meteorological winter (December – February) temperatures in Washington’s Puget Sound Lowlands Climate Division have officially trended downward at ever-increasing downward rates during the last 30 winters from 1990 to 2019, even as Washington’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations have continued to increase.

Dr. Gordon Fulks replied to the newspaper:

The best way to deal with climate hysteria is to learn something about our climate.  As soon as you do, you realize that it is far more complex than those in the media maintain.  It is certainly not a one parameter (carbon dioxide fits all) situation.

In fact carbon dioxide appears to have its greatest negative effect when the level drops below 200 ppmv, and plant life starts to die.  That turns high deserts, like the Gobi in China, into wastelands with vast dust storms that sweep the planet for tens of thousands of years.  That turns continental glaciers that cover large portions of the Northern Hemisphere darker, such that they begin to melt.  During a Milankovitch Cycle ‘Great Summer’ lasting 5,000 years, the Earth is then able to break free of a 100,000 year Ice Age and bring us into an Interglacial Period like the present Holocene Climate Optimum.  Those generally last about 10,000 years, before another ‘Great Winter’ drags us into the next Ice Age.  When that happens, Vashon Island will be again covered by an ice sheet thousands of feet thick!

But recent legitimate science (not the Global Warming Bad Science) suggests that we may have 50,000 years before the next Ice Age, due to both decreasing Obliquity (decreasing tilt of the Earth’s axis) and decreasing orbital Eccentricity.  The giant planet Jupiter, more than two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in the solar system combined, causes these Milankovitch Cycles.

As to Greenland melting and other climate hysteria, let me point out that Greenland has always lost ice into the North Atlantic as RMS Titanic discovered a hundred years ago.  And Greenland just set an all-time record low of -87 F at the National Science Foundation site of Summit Camp.

If you want more authoritative information on our climate, you should visit such sites as wuwt, icecap.us, and co2coalition.  I am one of the unpaid Directors of the CO2 Coalition, along with Princeton Professor of Physics Will Happer, Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore, and Dr. Harrison Schmitt, the only scientist to have walked on the moon.

Gordon J. Fulks, PhD (Physics)

Corbett, Oregon USA