Discussion in Sonshine Radio's "Eco Hour", about climate change and global warming

1. Climate alarmism vs climate realities
Bienvenido “Nonoy” Oplas, Jr.
For the interview on “ECO-Hour episode,” DZAR 1026 Sonshine Radio Manila, August 8, 2015, 2-3pm.
Guide Questions and my answers.
1. What is your reaction on the research which said that 72% of Filipinos are very concerned about
climate change? Are you one of the 72%? Why or Why not?
 Expected. Many Filipinos and people in the world are stilled hoodwinked by the climate alarmism
movement.
2. Should climate change or global warming be a cause of alarm among us? Or is the media
projecting it in a way that will somehow threaten us or push us to action? Can we say that ‘climate
change is nothing but a lie’?
 No.CC and GW are true, they are not lies, but they are cyclical and natura. What is a big lie is the
adjective “man-made” and forgetting or deliberately, explicitly removing “nature-made.”

2. Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s Happened Before”, July 19th
2013.
3. Does it mean that every extreme weather event is NOT caused by climate change? Is the
Typhoon Haiyan caused by climate change?
 No. There have been extreme weather in the past – severe cooling, severe warming and droughts.
More rains or less rains, more typhoons or less typhoons, they have happened in the past, will happen
tomorrow.
4. You have a study about “Man-made Global Warming” in 2009. Can you tell us what is it all
about?
a. Climate change (CC) is true. It happened in the past, happening now, will happen in the future.
Global warming (GW) is true, happened in the past (RWP, MWP, last century warming) and will happen
again in the future. Global cooling is also true, happened in the past, happening now.
b. CC is natural (nature-made, not “man-made”), it is cyclical (warming-cooling-warming-cooling), and
has precedents (not “unprecedented”). Like wet-dry season cycle, winter-spring-summer-fall cycle,
evaporation-condensation hydrologic cycle,
c. Long-term temperature-CO2 relationship, some studies say temperature leads CO2, other studies
say it’s the reverse. Common denominator, there are precedents of warm-cool period, lasting for
decades and centuries.

3. Source: WUWT, Euan Mearns,, Vostok and the 8000 year time lag Dec. 27, 2014
5. Is there a difference between climate alarmism and climate skepticism?
 Yes. Climate alarmism puts heavy emphasis on “man-made” or anthropogenic GW/CC. Climate
skepticism recognizes CC but it questions the “anthropogenic” main cause. Nature – the Sun, galactic
cosmic rays (GCRs), water vapor, clouds, volcanoes, PDO, AMO, etc. -- play much greater roles in planet
Earth’s warming or cooling phases. See for instance IPCC model temp. projections vs. actual
temperatures.
Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-
measurements-running-5-year-means/
6. If we read that the glaciers are melting in the Arctic region due to global warming, should it
really cause an alarm?

4.  No. Ice and glaciers in the Arctic, in Greenland (and Antarctica) are melting-growing, every year.
Part of natural cycle.
Source here, https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/vishop-extent.html?N
7. What can you say about groups pushing for the mitigation of climate change as part of the 17
new sustainable development goals?
 Mainly the huge money involved. See portions of my presentation at Dr. Alvin Ang’s graduate class
on Public Finance, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, 28 January 2015, entitled “Climate
Money: Wastes, Distortions and Scientific Dishonesty Behind It.”

5. Plus the huge perks – frequent climate junkets around the world, participants are burning huge
volume of fossil fuels due to their frequent jet sets. Plus ego tripping, they can dictate to the rest of us
what energy source we can use, what we cannot.
8. How should we view climate change and global warming as Filipinos? Do you think it is okay for
politicians to ride on this environmental issue as part of their political agenda?
 CC and GW are natural (nature-made, not man-made) and cyclical (warming-cooling-warming-
cooling…). Politicians, and many NGOs and media leaders, academics, etc. – ALL of them ride the
alarmism bandwagon.
9. On Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, is it mere science fiction? About the Pope’s ‘Laudato Si’ – is he
just being ‘influenced’ to believe on climate alarmism?
 Al Gore’s something like 10% truth, 90% fiction.
The Pope’s, advising people to take care of the planet is good. Advising them to demonize fossil fuels
and CO2 is wrong. The Pope and his entourage is among the heavy users of fossil fuels, he travels a lot
by jumbo jets, and those jets do not fly on water but on fossil fuel.
10. According to some groups, ‘coal is the demon incarnate’ for it causes unprecedented increase
in greenhouse gases. What is your take on this?
 They keep miseducating and fooling the public. If there are no coal power plants in Luzon at this
moment, most likely people will be using those noisy gensets that run on fossil fuel diesel, or using
candles, because of frequent brown outs.
Existing major power plants in Luzon, early 2014. Coal is 4,531 MW, followed by big hydro, 2,445 MW,
nat gas 2,861 MW.

6. Source: http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/2015/01/energy-32-is-ph-power-supply-ready-
for.html