Global Warming Consensus is Broken

April 19 (EIRNS) -- VICE CHAIR OF IPCC BREAKS GLOBAL WARMING
‘CONSENSUS’.
The much-vaunted consensus over global warming shattered like ice
yesterday,
when the Russian vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate
Change (IPCC) penned an op-ed for Ria Novosti news agency questioning
the
“panic over global warming.” –
“I think the panic over the global warming is totally unjustified.
There is
no serious threat to the climate,” wrote Academician of the Russian
Academy
of Sciences Yury Izrael in a commentary published by RIA Novosti April
18.
Academician Izrael is the head of the Institute of Global Climate and
Ecology in Russia, and one of three vice chairmen of the IPCC, the
international body whose reports have claimed that human-induced global
warming is a scientific certainty.
“There is no need to dramatize the anthropogenic impact because the
climate
has always been subject to change under Nature’s influence, even when
humanity did not even exist,” Izrael wrote. He does not dismiss that
there
are changes in climate going on, but writes that “we are more
threatened by
the cold than by global warming.”
If it becomes necessary to deal with warming, Izrael argues that
controlling
human use of CO2 is not an effective means. “Instead, it makes sense
to
decrease solar radiation by 0.3%-0.5%.” This can be most effectively
done
using stratosphere-based aerosols, and Russian scientists are now
studying
how to do this. Reducing CO2 emissions will both take much too long,
and be
extremely expensive—about $18 trillion this century. “The method of
aerosol
impact on the stratosphere is much cheaper, hundreds of times faster,
and,
if need be, can be easily stopped,” Izrael concludes.
“[W]ay back in 1974, Russian scientist Mikhail Budyko came up with an
idea
that may resolve the global warming problem in several years,” Izrael
wrote,
and he himself wrote an article proposing this in 2005 ,–which was
ignored
by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, who made the same proposal a year
later.
The idea is to change the ‘meteorological sun constant’ by introducing
into
the lower stratosphere (at an altitude of 12km-16km) fine dispersed
aerosols
of sulfuric acid, for instance. This will decrease solar radiation on
the
Earth’s surface and reduce the temperature in the troposphere by the
required number of degrees. This is an instrument of climate change….
“It
goes without saying that this method should be approved by the world
community. For the time being, Russian scientists are working at home -
making detailed calculations for further tests.”