Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:09:38 PM
This is an idea I thought I beat down in my first attempt at writing in my blog. The temperature of the earth has increased one degree centigrade since 1900. If we continued having a temperature increase at that rate, it would take around 1000 years to make any real difference to the world. We would start to see things start to happen in 500 years, but they would be mild.
The main reason the temperature has increased is that the sun has been more active these past 20 years. That would account for some of the temperature rise. Most of the temperature rise took place prior to 1940. Since 1990, the temperature has not increased at all.
The temperature is still not as warm as it was from 850 to 1100 AD. During that time, there was a colony in Greenland that had around 20,000 people living in it. They had primitive technology and had a good living. They must have had a good living as the colony grew during most of that time period. We could not establish a colony in that area of Greenland using that technology and have anywhere near that number of people. Most of them would starve within the first year. It was also warm around the year 0. there was a 100-200 year period of warm temperatures and resulting crop increases. Both of those were not caused by human greenhouse emissions.
Since the entire global warming scare is just that, a scare, we should disregard it. Unfortunately, powerful people believe that global warming exists. They will not listen to logic or to scientific facts. They insist that everyone bow down at the altar of global warming. Two Senators sent a letter to an oil company threatening them to not support people working on research that does not support global warming. The threats have even gotten to President Bush. The word is out that he will acknowledge that global warming exists in the State of the Union speech next week. That will be a major victory for the believers. They will have the most powerful person on earth acknowledging that they are right.
When you hear people talk about global warming, you hear them couch it in words that have meaning like a church. People in a church talking about believing and faith. People that believe in global warming talk just like that. People that do not believe in global warming talk in scientific terms and use scientific information to back up their arguments. People that believe in global warming just say, " everyone believes global warming exists" and the argument ends.
I am afraid we are in for a bumpy road ahead. The global warming crowd is getting stronger. The people that do not believe in global warming are being forced to believe. I refuse to be forced to believe in a false idea. When there is no evidence to support an argument, I cannot support it. I am too much of a scientist to fall for the,"everyone believes" argument. I want to see facts on the table. One degree in over 100 years, is nothing to worry about in my lifetime or the lifetime of anyone living on this planet at this time. It will not even be a problem for the grandchildren of anyone living on the planet at this time. I am talking about the grandchildren of my grandchildren that are less than one year old.
Fortunately for me, I will not be around for all of the shouting. I am 58 years old and can only expect to live 20-30 more years. I can get in on the argument, but I will not have to pay the price of all this insanity.