The Myth of Man-Made Global Warming

The winter of 2008-2009 sure was been cold, wasn’t it? According to the data published by IARC-JAXA, October 2008 saw the fastest Arctic sea ice extent growth ever recorded. Additionally, this winter has given us record low temperatures, with cold spells often breaking records previously set fifteen or twenty years ago. It snowed in Houston and New Orleans, and if you’re a native of either city, you know how rare that is. In late January 2009, terribly icy winter storms left more than a million homes and businesses without power in New England. Ironically, Al Gore was forced to brave this rough and frigid weather, so he could get to Congress to talk about global warming.

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel and eminent Meteorologist, recently said, "There is no significant man-made global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always changed. But mankind's activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the natural forces."

He went on to discuss the actual cause of climate change, saying, "Worldwide there was a significant natural warming trend in the 1980's and 1990's as a Solar cycle peaked with lots of sunspots and solar flares. That ended in 1998 and now the Sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer Sun spots, and the global temperatures have gone into decline. Earth has cooled for almost ten straight years."

This has been happening throughout the history of the world. In fact, back in the 1970's, there was similar climate change alarmism going around - except they claimed a new Ice Age was coming within decades. Actual measurements of Earth's temperature and climate show no man-made warming trend. In fact, during four of the seven decades since 1940 when average CO2 levels increased, average temperatures in the US were actually decreasing. Additionally, there are hundreds of research papers available from a wide variety of sources confirming the existence of a period warmer than today just a thousand years ago known as the Medieval Warm Period.

Dr. John Theon, the retired scientist formerly in charge of key NASA climate programs has come out as a skeptic as well. Dr. Theon was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, who is the leading global warming alarmist in the country (except for maybe Al Gore). Dr. Theon has stated that "some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy." Please, someone tell this to Congress.

The arguments for man-made global warming are tenuous at best. A small data calculation error of 0.8 degrees centigrade was discovered in findings by NASA, and the recalculations showed an overall decrease in U.S. temperatures since 2000 by 0.15 degrees centigrade. Furthermore, the sea level has been rising since the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago. The rate of increase has averaged four feet per century. Yet in the 20th century, when we are told that "global warming" began to have a major impact on the sea level, it rose by just eight inches.

Fraudulent "hockey stick" data published in 1998, which showed massive global warming during the 20th Century, turned out to have been cherry-picked from a small sample of tree rings. When challenged on this, one dendroclimatologist justified himself by saying, "You have to pick cherries if you're going to make cherry pie." The whole thing was proven to be a sham when not one other scientist could reproduce the results.

Finally, US Meteorologist Anthony Watts discovered that a large portion of the nation's 1,200 weather stations have been wrongly sited, because they are situated in man-made heat-absorbing centers. These include locations on rooftops, on slabs of heat-absorbing concrete, and next to air conditioners, diesel generators, and asphalt parking lots.

Many facts have also been ignored by global warming alarmists. For instance, the periods of warmer temperatures on Earth have resulted in warmer and longer growing seasons and more areas available for crops. Increases in CO2 levels also cause an increase in plant growth. Based on the data, it's clear that CO2 follows the trend of temperature; it does not cause it. In reality, solar activity is the originator of most climatic change and most weather patterns on Earth. Especially since similar temperature changes can be measured on Mars, which has no power plants or SUVs.

In summary, it is abundantly clear that the manmade global warming madness that has swept our nation is nothing but a hoax. It has been perpetuated by environmentalist wackos like Al Gore for two reasons, one good and one bad. Firstly, they want to lower pollution. I have no problem with lowering pollution, because I don't want to breathe smog or swim in a dirty lake. However, encouraging conservation should not be done with scare tactics and false data. Their second reason is much more insidious: They want power. The more liberals can regulate, the more than can control, the more they can own you. As liberals are allowed to keep regulating more and more of our lives, America grows closer to the Socialist, government-controlled society that they desire.