Is Al Gore making money from all of this???
you decide!!!

Why is it being called "Climate Change" instead of "Global Warming" all of a sudden???? Could it mean that the "Warming" part of the Eco-scare doesn't fit when there is a cooling trend???
Doesn't the climate always "Change"??? If it were a constant we could predict the weather couldn't we? Our weather people couldn't predict the weather further than a week or so if their jobs depended on it, the same goes for the government agencies that want to tax your carbon footprint!
When are people going to wake up and realize that one major volcanic eruption causes more pollution than all cars combined since cars have been invented...we humans are in fact a pretty insignificant force on "Mother Nature" just ask any Tsunami survivor or ask anyone who hung out in New Orleans when the storm decided to wipe out a few dwellings or how about when a tornado sweeps up your alley!!!
Make up your own mind when it comes to the garbled junk being spewed out by the forces of "Good", make sure you don't drink the Cool-aide before asking the right questions....I am not saying the folks trying to save us from ourselves are wrong, I am merely asking you to open your eyes to the real truth!


Ever wonder how a government can tell us how the climate will be years in the future when they can't even predict further than a week or so??? It is always easier to look back and see where the predictions went wrong!!!
Click here to see the latest from NOAA

it is now 2010, what is less polluting FIREWOOD or OIL???
Just ask anyone living in a Gulf coast state!!!

Why do the big papers and magazines always change their minds when it's politically correct to do so???


if the globe is warming, why so cold?
EPA

Another opinion???



WOODHEAT.ORG


Even the New York Times is changing tunes

Offset Global Warming
...stop mowing your lawn

- If you get a notice from your local government threatening to fine you for not mowing your lawn,
tell them you're reducing greenhouse gases by growing it to an optimal height for producing oxygen.

Environmentally, the smoke from burning wood might cause some concern.
The act of burning wood, in and of itself, is virtually carbon neutral.
According to the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wis., and the U.S. Forest Service, the carbon sequestered during the growth of the tree is released when it's burned.
Through the process of photosynthesis, trees are able to store solar energy as chemical energy (volatiles) that we can use for heat when winter approaches.
Burning firewood is just the quick reversal of this process, liberating the sun's heat when we need it most.

    Although carbon makes up about half the weight of firewood and is released as carbon dioxide when the wood is burned, it is part of a natural cycle.
A tree absorbs carbon dioxide from the air as it grows and uses this carbon to build its structure. When the tree falls and decays in the forest, or is processed into firewood and burned, the carbon dioxide is released again to the atmosphere.
Burning firewood properly releases no more harmful greenhouse gases than would be produced were the wood to simply rot on the forest floor.
This cycle can be repeated forever without increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide……Burning wood is not a contributor to acid rain as wood has very low levels of sulfur and minimal heavy metals!!!

When oil and gas are burned, carbon that has been buried within the earth for thousands of years is released in the form of carbon dioxide, a by-product of combustion.
The result is an increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main cause of the greenhouse effect.

Though the use of all resources has environmental impact, the use of some resources are more in keeping with the natural cycles of the Earth's ecosystem.
In closing, burning firewood has zero net release of CO2 – It is only releasing what it absorbed while growing.

So put another log on the fire, kick off your shoes and relax a spell!

 


Please Don't Drink the Water
(a global warming nut's biggest nightmare)
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An Important Newsweek article from 1975


Here is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels. A PDF of the original is available here. A fine short history of warming and cooling scares has recently been produced. It is available here.

We invite readers interested in finding out about both sides of the debate over global warming to visit our website: Climate Debate Daily — Denis Dutton

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

“The world’s food-producing system,” warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA’s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, “is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago.” Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

—PETER GWYNNE with bureau report



On October 23, 2006, Newsweek issued a correction, over 31 years after the original article, stating that it had been "so spectacularly wrong about the near-term future" (though editor Jerry Adler claimed that 'the story wasn't "wrong" in the journalistic sense of "inaccurate."')


1980 Cosmos series with Carl Sagan

In the science series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, physicist Carl Sagan warned of catastrophic cooling through the burning and clear cutting of forests. He postulated that the increased albedo of the Earth's surface might lead to a new ice age. He also mentioned that this may be counteracted and overcome by the release of greenhouse gases. Cosmos was a popular series on public television and was often shown in elementary, junior and senior high schools in the United States.


















BP vs BB
At Berry Bros. we have never polluted an entire ocean, we have never caused the death of hundreds of thousands of animals, we have never caused the loss of thousands and thousands of jobs, we have never cost the taxpayers or our government billions of dollars, we have never gotten preferential treatment from any lawmakers.....but we still catch heck for selling firewood....to all of our detractors, I say: Go swim in the Gulf!!!



TEPCO vs BB

At Berry Bros. we have never sent a cloud of nuclear radition to blanket the globe, possibly causing countless cases of cancer and other untold health problems to to millions of living creatures, we have never contaminated the food supply or water supply and we have never caused the people of the earth billions in dollars for clean up and recovery......we still have not received preferential treatment from lawmakers.....and we still catch heck for selling firewood, to all our detractors, I say: Move to Japan (next door to the TEPCO Nuke plant) AND MAY YOU GLOW IN PEACE!