Environmental Geologists Dismiss Man-made Causes for Warming

Wow. You won't see this story printed anywhere except in geophysical circles. Professors Khilyuk and Chilingar, from USC, actually estimate how much, if any, humans might have contributed to the current warming cycle of the planet during the last 150 years: 0.01 degrees Celsius. Also, the geophysical causes for warming periodicity, eccentricity in Earth's orbit and tectonic pressures, are on the order of 4 or 5 magnitudes more powerful than anthropogenic atmospheric temperature forcings. That's magnitudes, as in powers of 10. I mentioned in an earlier post that for one to believe that man-made forces could be responsible for any of the global climate change we see, the warming phase would have to have been right on its tipping point, and our meager contribution nudged the cycle into an accelerating temperature phase. As I said before, the odds of that knife-edge tipping point even occurring are astronomical, and that's assuming the hockey-stick climate models are correct, which was the basis of the Kyoto Protocol, and which many climate scientists have already disproved.

Even more controversial are the environmental engineers' conclusions. Remember, these are some of those non-existent scientists outside of the consensus on man-made global warming:

Thus, the Kyoto Protocol is a good example of how to achieve the minimum results with the maximum efforts (and sacrifices). Impact of available human controls will be negligible in comparison with the global forces of nature. Thus, the attempts to alter the occurring global climatic changes (and drastic measures prescribed by the Kyoto Protocol) have to be abandoned as meaningless and harmful.

Scientists say that the Kyoto Protocol is "meaningless and harmful." So, where's their front page story?