This week has been extremely cold in the northern part of the US. The global warming crowd is trying to claim that the extreme cold is due to global warming. They use the term now, global climate change. Using the term global climate change means, if the temperature goes up or down, they can claim that man is the cause.  They would be wrong, but they would make the claim anyway. The way they get away with making the claim is that there is no definite proof one way or the other.

You can show that man puts out about 1% of the so-called greenhouse gasses. If man is putting out only 1% of the total greenhouse gasses, how come that 1% is the cause of the problem? How come the 99% of the greenhouse gasses put out by Mother Nature are not the culprit? The answer is obvious. There is no way that we can put controls on what Mother Nature puts out. So, putting the blame on Mother Nature would be truthful, but would not offer up a solution. Putting the blame on mankind offers a solution to the problem, regulate what mankind produces.

But, when you look closer at the science of climate, you discover a secret that those that believe in global warming do not want people to know. Greenhouse gasses have little or no impact on the temperature of the earth. The temperature of the earth has more to do with sun spot activity on the sun than it does with greenhouse gasses on earth. Also, of the greenhouse gasses, water vapor has more to do with the temperature of the earth than any of the other greenhouse gasses. Carbon dioxide, the current favorite of global warming nuts, has almost no impact on global temperature at all. Water vapor collects heat and releases it slowly over time. That would heat the earth if the water vapor amounts increased. The problem with water vapor is that there is no way to control water vapor. Water vapor comes from lakes, rivers and oceans.

What is a self respecting environmentalist to do? Global temperature is controlled by sun spot activity and the amount of water vapor. Sun spots are impossible to control. We can only monitor when they occur. We do not really know why they occur or when they occur. Water vapor is something we can have a minor impact on a local situation. We can produce a lot of water vapor and increase the local water vapor content in a localized area. We cannot have any impact on a global scale.

Global warming nut cases have decided to control carbon dioxide levels. It is impossible to control carbon dioxide levels for the planet. We can again change the levels locally, but globally, it is impossible. Even restricting carbon dioxide production will only have a minimal impact on the global carbon dioxide level because of the vastness of the air. All these restrictions that people want to impose on us will have little impact at most. The probable impact on the carbon dioxide level is none. The carbon dioxide level goes up and down over time. It is always changing. Since it is always changing, how can anyone determine if all the restrictions people are making are having any impact at all?

One thing people are trying to do is keep the temperature from rising any more. During the medieval warming period from 850-1150, it was a lot warmer than it is today. Vikings lived in Greenland and grew crops, wheat and vegetables. Those crops would not grow there today. It is too cold. If the temperature was so much warmer in the medieval warming period, why is it so bad to have the temperature go up? During the medieval warming period, there were fewer wars during that time period. That is not to say that there were no wars, there were, just fewer. Populations grew and knowledge increased during the medieval warming period. What is to say that we would not have a repeat of such events during the 21^st century warming period?

That the temperature of the earth is changing is not news. It is always going either up or down. Blaming the rise in temperature on mankind is wrong. Until there is proof that mankind is causing the current mild rise in temperature, I will continue to believe that it is a natural phenomenon. What will the future bring? Nobody knows the future for sure. Al Gore and his global warming nuts think that the earth will turn into a cinder. That is stupid and wrong. What is more likely is that we are following a long term pattern that was established millions of years ago and we do not understand.