I know. I sort of promised that I wouldn't rant about global warming any more because it's getting boring. What I really meant is that I was getting boring, because the Global Warming debate is really hotting up.
For years, the champions of Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW), that is, the "Humans-Did-It-Evil-CO2-Emissions" crowd, have had ascendency. It's an easy sell for the media... doom and gloom, and apparently, you're responsible. Politicians have staked their careers, not to mention the future of nations on adopting it as Dogma too.
Sadly, there is more and more evidence that we humans don't have much to do with it. There's an excellent website, www.climatedebatedaily.com, that has two columns... one on the left for the AGW Champions, and the other on the right for the AGW Skeptics. What's becoming more and more clear is that world climate is influenced by two core factors. The first is sunspot activity, as mentioned in my last posting on this issue, and the second is variations in our orbit around the sun. I add a third, which is geothermal forces, though I suspect these are linked to orbital position.
Many of the scientists who have been shouting unheard for years are now finding listeners. They argue that rather than catastrophic global warming, the earth's headed for a rapid transition to a new Ice Age. We're talking rapid, imminent transition... that is, within our lifetimes.
For example, each previous Ice Age was preceeded by thirty or so years of increasing temperatures, rapid retreat of glaciers and melting of ice caps, followed by a few years of climate instability. And then whammo, the Ice caps started reforming, and just kept growing.
Some parts of the Ice Caps have, according to some of the data, begun to reform.
Do I believe we're headed for an imminent Ice Age? I don't know, but the scientific evidence is compelling, in that there is a direct straight line correlation between our orbital position and global climate, going back more than a million years.
I'm not going to say much more on this issue... but please stay informed by going to sites like ClimateDebateDaily. (Who am I kidding... I can't stay silent, but I will be less frequent.)
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Saw a local news program in reference to the "errors" in Inconvenient Truth.
A scientist said "We should not lie to people even if it's in the interest of improving their behaviour."
He also added "lies undermine science. And you'll need science to solve the problems of the future."
It was a good interview.
Except right after words they flashed these "Did You Know?" factoids while going to commercial. One "Factoid" was this:
"Did you know? Some scientists say there will be no ice at the North Pole by 2020."
Sigh.
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