Evidence of Global Cooling…
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333328,00.html)
Welcome to the great white north… uh oh. Sorry all you Canadians out there… I’m actually talking about Michigan and the WONDERFUL winter we are actually having for a change. With temperatures running over 2 degrees colder than average, snow cover at its largest in years and finding out that the ice caps on both poles are growing faster and have more ice then ever before.
I have to say that today will be a great, great day, especially when it started out by me turning on the news this morning and seeing the ‘talking-heads’ basically bash Al Gore and his wonderful THEORY of global warming… Oops.. I meant to say global COOLING!
I guess I’m just tired of the statements by media and other parrots in the world today when they spout off about scientific consensus on this new ‘fear mongered’ subject called global warming. OK… before everyone gets their shorts in a bunch, I’ll throw out a caveat… I do believe in climate change, but NOT global warming, especially when you accuse me of being the primary cause any changes that we can observe today on weather related issues across the globe.
As many of my readers already know, I try my best to show my points by as many means that time and other resources allow, and this is certainly going to be one of them. Let’s see if we can at least create a benchmark in this continuing debate of global warming…
1. A theory can best be described as a set of assumptions based on limited knowledge and as yet not proved. (i.e. not facts)
2. Global warming: Since science CANNOT prove, or create facts based on the theory of human induced global warming, this phenomenon is still considered a theory.
3. Consensus: “A majority of opinion” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consensus)
4. Majority: essentially a group that constitutes more than half of a group or population
I am not brining anything not already stated previously to the table today, just a simple observation, one that is hard NOT to make considering the beautiful snow cover I’m currently viewing outside my office window. What concerns me the most is the heralding of the ‘majority’ of scientists claiming that global climate change is caused by us, and that if we don’t do something quick about it, we are all doomed (that, ladies and gentlemen is what I call an alarmist!!!)
Although I could most certainly post literally thousands of locations of information, data and conjecture both for and against human’s involvement in global warming; that is not what I am writing about today. My concern is listening to those same talking heads in the news broadcasting business claim something that is not facts, but only opinions (you might want to see my “News?.. What’s that? Post).
For your reading pleasure, here are but a few of the reasons for this post:
1. Climatologists Reject Media Claims of Global Warming Consensus (http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17568)
2. The collapsing scientific cornerstones of global warming theory (http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba299.html)
3. Consensus in science (http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/02/15/consensus-in-science/)
4. Global Warming and natures thermostat (http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm)
5. Climate scientist survey reveals little consensus (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200711/NAT200...)
6. Himalayan glaciers are growing… and confounding global warming alarmists (http://globalwarmingcause.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/himalayan-glaciers-ar...)
7. Fallacies about global warming (http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_originals/fallacies_about_global_...)
Perhaps it would be best instead for scientist to determine FACTUAL reasons for climate change before we immediately ‘claim’ that my freedoms to use technology and means to my financial and personal survival are the reasons this planet is ‘supposedly’ going to self-destruct. I personally have much more faith in the miracle of life and the ability of this planet and its creator which actually creates more climate change than I do (read above article 7 before you blow your stack… we don’t want to add to the changing weather any more than we already have…) than listen to this supposed consensus of how I should no longer drive my car.
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I honestly find this subject pretty painful these days. It blows my mind that Al Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize for inciting fear over something that we don't even know is true; but then again Yassir Arafat also won the Nobel Peace Prize, so what's one more political maneuver to add to the bunch?
I am in complete agreement with you in that I do not believe in anthropogenic global warming. It has never been clearly proven; nor do I see anyone even coming up with clear evidence of this. However, I do believe that our ways are causing damage to the environment. I live in the Adirondacks, and I am frankly sick of the acid raid we get from the Midwest. There are better ways to produce energy (nuclear, Stirling engine solar, geothermal, wave) and we don't need to be so economically dependent on our fossil fuels.
With that said...
http://www.progressiveu.org/084651-the-truth-about-global-warming
engkatiemarie,
Nicely put. I agree that our dependence on fossil fuels needs to change, but its hard to justify change when the organizations that run those businesses refuse to change for the sake of something called a theory. I agree that human's have a direct impact on their environment, and need to be good stewards of this earth in a means of planning for future generations. I too am for nuclear energy, solar and wind power, and many other types of energy production, but then again... lets talk about environmentalist who then state that those too harm our environment...
I'm guessing the only way out of this 'global-warming' issue is to return to those Adirondacks and other places like it to live like our ancestors once did a very long, long time ago...
so much for progress!
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"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” (Sun Tzu)