Global Cooling is no doubt caused by Global Warming
Filed Under (Global Warming) by Don C on 08-02-2008
Investor’s Business Daily has an account of the same Popular Mechanics story about a mini ice age that I linked the other day. Since the facts of each story are about the possibility of an impending ice age due to decreased solar activity, the difference between the two stories lies in the opinion as to whether the Sun has much influence over the planet’s climate. Popular Mechanics says not so much (follow the link to see their spin) but IBD say very much.
Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better “eyes” with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined….
This solar hibernation [of the seventeenth century] corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
IBD says the global cooling caused the mass deaths of 17th century and Popular Mechanics says the mass deaths caused the cooling.
Considering that it recently snowed in Baghdad I’d say the Al Gore and his fellow climate terrorists have about a year or two to close the deal on their Global Warming scam. No wonder they seem to be in such a frenzy.
I have no doubt that with the demise of the Global Warming scam, a Global Cooling scam will pop up in its stead… but at least it wont be the rat-bastard Al Gore in charge.
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Global warming via co2 is such a flawed theory and so poorly researched that it is a gigantic red alert to the failure of our government-run international science establishment that only cranks out “research” which supports government control and creates an entrenched army of leftist loons masquerading as scientists and an orthodoxy of illogic and invalid methods run amok.
If the sun can eliminate in one winter an entire century of warming through a natural phase of quiet, then co2 cannot be logically considered to have been the warming agent. To conclude otherwise would be to suggest that the sun can only cool things down (as in, it’s going out) while evil man, Exxon and Halliburton– blah blah are responsible for persistently increasing warming. Such a proposition is absurd.
Logic dictates that we admit it was the sun all along that warmed us up a bit more than the Liberals deem appropriate, for we are in the midst of an interglacial period (Thank God).
Co2 can no more be considered the cause of continued warming than can the 5th coat of black paint on your home’s windows be considered a cause for continued darkening of your living room. 85% of co2’s capacity to enhance the greenhouse effect was already in place before the 20th century began…adding more does nothing. Does the blind man complain about lack of visual acuity because he’s wearing sunglasses? The same is true of incremental amounts of the life-giving element carbon. You can’t contain more heat than has entered the atmosphere from the source…it’s the sun…it always was.
The real question is if truly mad scientists and politically partisan liars deceived us with regard to this unequivocal reality, what other untruths have we built our epistemological house of cards on?