Climate realist speaks on global "warming"

The Etownian.com

The political scene lit up again Tuesday as the College Republicans invited a speaker to present on the issue of global warming. The event was billed as “The Other Side of Global Warming: Discussing the Other Side of the Al Gore Propaganda Issue.” The speaker was a Mr. Ryan Nichols of the organization Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).

Nichols began the talk at 8 p.m., first giving a brief outline of his life. He was born in Madison, Wi. and attended the University of Madison, where he earned a degree in civil and environmental engineering. He then became a part of the Leadership Institute, a noted thinktank.
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Nichols continued by belittling global warming as a threat, stating that not only is carbon dioxide a lesser greenhouse gas, but that the human contribution of CO2 is “negligible.” He also stated that global research stations for measuring the earth’s aggregate temperature were inaccurate, citing that after stations in Siberia were closed, the earth’s average temperature suddenly rose due to the lack of the Siberian data.

He also discussed that over the past 114,000 years, the earth’s temperature had fluctuated “over 7 degrees,” whereas people are freaking out because in the past 100 years the global temperature had gone up “only a slight fraction of one degree.”

Rather than human action, Nichols blamed the warming trend on solar cycles, that is the regular cycles of heating and cooling of the Sun.

Nichols then pointed out that alternative energy resources would be less applicable than the current use of fossil fuels, since they are five times more expensive and far less efficient than petroleum.

Rather than making alternative energy more efficient, Nichols proposed that we continue using petroleum until it runs out to the point that it is five times more expensive than current prices. That way, alternative energy sources would be comparatively priced to petrol, and at least there would be more incentive to make the switch.

(Via CO2 Sceptics)