The Swindle

The Great Global Warming Swindle

So, I used to be one of those people who worked for the Sierra Club, going door to door asking for donations to help curb global warming. My father and I were both intensely reading An Inconvenient Truth when it first came out. I was very adamant about recycling, energy conservation and "going green."

Now, there's nothing wrong with all of this. Nothing at all. It's good to be a conscientious citizen, I think, even if your good intentions are misguided.

I don't know if I made it apparent or not in my presentation of scare tactics that I'm quite skeptical of the whole man-made global warming idea. That's not to say that I don't think that the globe is warming--because it is, we've seen this happening in the past--but I also believe that it is cooling. I mean, if we look back to the 1970's, global cooling was the "threat". The world is its own monster, and there are things far greater than us causing what we see as a "catastrophic" global climate change.

The piece of science that I wish I could have shown to the class is a British documentary that is pretty controversial because it totally debunks the whole notion of a man-made catastrophe, and it has scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who are skeptical of the whole idea, even scientists who are a part of the IPCC (intergovernmental panel of climate change), a group that "assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change." Now, I'm definitely not a scientist. Definitely not. Im just trying to find my place in all of this, and perhaps I'm the one being misguided by anti-human induced global warming, but this stuff just looks too convincing for me to look it over.

A couple of things I found really shocking, but quite revealing, were things like sunspots controlling climate change, volcanoes, the oceans and animals producing more CO2 than humans, and the fact that, through historic data that these scientists have been able to reconstruct using ice samples, over the life of the planet, temperatures have risen BEFORE CO2 levels rose. BEFORE, not after, like everyone is trying to say. The most interesting thing I found was that sunspots and global temperatures have an extremely intimate correlation; historically, as the number of sunspots rose, temperatures on earth rose. Duhh, people. Let's think about this. Solar activity causing changes on earth? Of course! Sunspots and solar flares and magnetic fields, in my mind, would have a FAR greater effect on our Earth than some plastic bags or taking a trip down south in your Bentley Arnage.

Yet another thing about the sun: you know how in the summer, it's usually a lot hotter if there aren't any clouds, right? Of course, there's no protection from the sun at that point. As sun flares and magnetic fields rage, solar winds push all the particles that would usually be entering our earth out of the way, like a great wind in the fall where leaves are being tossed and turned all around. These particles are the ones which would help to form clouds in our atmosphere. Without them, less clouds, more heat.

I've had a lot of problems with the media and their ways of scaring, manipulating and influencing our ideas about the way that things really are. So, forgive me if I'm railing too hard against the global warming activists. I just don't think we have as much to worry about at we believe we do.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5576670191369613647#

and a few other things just for laughs; i mentioned these in class, but just in case anyone forgot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arbpu1xKAow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DX3lZ8peBU