Posted by
David Smith on Friday, November 16, 2007 11:26:46 PM
OK, as the sad, sad line goes, is there anybody out there who will deny that Global Warming is occurring as we speak...er, blog? Not I, says the toad!
So I read today that 140 nations are once again stating the obvious...that it's getting hotter in the kitchen. And I say, this is new???
Here's what I mean. We see all those great photos snapped by President Theodore Roosevelt as he strode through Yosemite and Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. And then some smart guy goes and snaps a picture of the parks at present showing the decrease in glacier coverage in the last century or so. Wow! Right?? I mean, there used to be glaciers, now there are deer running through grassy meadows.
Here's what I simply don't hear anybody saying...not the pundits, not the supposedly Liberal media, not Conservative talk radio--nobody!
Global Warming has been going on a lot longer than the Valencia, Spain conference seems to realize. Remember the Second Ice Age? Ended around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago? You know, the glaciers started melting?? Imagine what Europe and North America looked like back then? Something akin to Antartica today!
We keep hearing about Chicken Little running in the room right after Al Gore spreading news of global gloom and doom, yet we keep not hearing about the true cause of this impending global pandemic.
What is the great solar glob in the sky up to these days??? Hmm???
Or, more appropriately stated, what has the great light in the sky been up to for the last hundred centuries??
How much more solar radiation is being churned out now than was 2,000 years ago? I heard a scientific study recently on similar topics...didn't stick in my memory...probably due to all of the smokestacks appearing on the nightly news. More politically acceptable to blast American Corporations and President George Bush that practice true science and ask what is going on with the sun I guess.
Here's my problem with Global Warming, as portrayed in today's media...Global Warming happens every single day! And Global Cooling happens every single night!
Yeah, yeah...I know...that doesn't count. Over the course of the last 100 years it has changed dramatically from an average annual global temperature of 70 degrees to 71.2 degrees, or whatever the numbers. I mean, 1% in 100 years and we're supposed to all start buying land in Colorado so we can be assured of having enough elevation to survive the impending flooding of the State of Florida, or whatever.
Do you get my point, though? Sun comes out, temps rise. Sun goes down, so do temps. Clouds? Lower temps. Sunny? Higher temps!
Amazing how that works, right?
Now apply on a global basis. If the sun is burning brighter, hotter, emitting a higher band of radiation, etc, temps go up on Earth. Can we affect this scenario at all? Well, if you believe in Jean Luc Piccard and 'Star Trek' then sure! But back on planet Earth...
Take another example...gas stove. Want to boil water to make spaghetti? Turn up the gas. Want to boil it a bit faster? Turn up the heat more--more gas=hotter, faster!
Apply this globally. If the gas on the stove gets turned up, the pot boils faster. If the solar radiation levels have increased even 1/10 of 1% in the last century, I put forward that this affects the Earth's atmospheric temperatures more than my consumption of gasoline and usage of GE Soft White lightbulbs.
Understand that?
Now, before anybody hurls the tired, old, "Ignorant Christian with no knowledge of science" card at me, take a look who is paying attention to science and who is employing invective to make their arguments.
I admit that Global Warming occurs...that's what one must admit if we acknowledge that once there was a global ice age and today we understand that there is no such condition.
Once there were glaciers...today there are not!
Gee, I should make a movie. I figure if Michael Moore and Al Gore can, surely I could, too? Na'ah!
So blather all you want about how we have gone from "Global Chill" 30 years ago in the last Energy Crunch to "Global Warming" today and blame it on Exxon-Mobil all you want. I seriously doubt that even the Exxon-GE-Halliburton "vast right-wing conspiracy" can do anything to stop the rise of global temperatures. The sun, after all, is just a little bit larger than the Earth and we already see that the sun causes the rise and fall of temperatures every day. Over time, if the sun has decided to pelt us with 1% more radiation than in the past, well, drop your SPF 15 in favor of the 60 variety. And drop beach activities for snow skiing where everything is covered by three layers!
Surf's up, Florida! And it actually is Mother Nature to blame. Go figure.