Jon Huntsman --done in by global warming

Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman is out today with his latest campaign thrust in the GOP nomination battle for president. Huntman is criticizing those who question the science behind global warming. This is indeed a sign that Huntsman does not have a clue. My guess is that neither he nor his staff spend much time reading the news. The bombshell news in climate science of the last few days has been the publishing of a peer-reviewed scientific paper in a journal called "Remote Sensing". That paper demonstrates that the amount of heat being trapped in the atmosphere by
carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases is much less than the level predicted by the computer models used by the global warming crowd. The paper reports on the heat emissions detected by the NASA satellites during the period from 2000 to 2011, so the data used is not insubstantial.

Let me explain why this is so important. The entire science of man made global warming has been based upon two causes. The first is that the greenhouse gases created by humanity will by themselves trap heat in the atmosphere. It has long been agreed that the direct trapping of heat is minor; even the Al Gore crowd would concede this. The second cause, however, has been that the greenhouse gases would create conditions which in turn would trap heat on Earth. These conditions, like an increase in high cirrus clouds, are theorized to be the principal cause for global warming. The data published in the new paper, however, proves that whether or not there are additional clouds and the like, over the last eleven years the level of heat being retained rather than radiated back into space is only a small fraction of the level predicted by the computer models. In short, the study shows that the primary engine expected to cause global warming does not exist in reality.

Since the study was published during the debt ceiling debate and you couple that with the fact the the study essentially destroys global warming theory, the press made almost no mention of it. In truth, however, this news is of earthshaking importance.

It is a good thing that Obama'sCap and Trade plan never passed the senate. Imagine how bad it would have been if we had crippled the US economy the way that Obama wanted in order to fight a non-existent problem.

But, let's go back to Huntsman. With his latest effort, he has demonstrated that he is not suited to be president. America needs someone who at least studies an issue before he shoots off his mouth about it. Huntsman is treating science like politics. Too bad for Huntsman, unlike most politics there are demonstrable right and wrong answers in science.