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Global warming is a fallacy
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Spring is a wonderful time of year. Flowers bloom, the sun
shines, school draws closer to an end and leftists gather to
complain about global warming.
Due to the recent cold weather we’ve been experiencing,
these environmentalists will have a tougher sell this year. Perhaps
a greater death nail in their coffin is a recent study by Harvard
University that proves that it was warmer in the middle ages than
it is today.
This is a significant conclusion for these environmentalists
claim that global warming is a recent phenomenon caused by us
burning coal and oil.
The theory goes that exhaust from burning these fossil fuels
rises up into the atmosphere, which in turn blocks the sun’s
radiation from escaping earth. This is referred to as “the
green-house effect.”
Some people who claim to be scientists have bought into this
bunk theory, making such ludicrous claims as “the 1990s had
been hotter than any other period for 1,000 years,” and
“global temperatures are the hottest since record keeping
began.”
However, as reported by the UK Telegraph, “such claims
have now been sharply contradicted by the most comprehensive study
yet of global temperature over the past 1,000 years. A review of
more than 240 scientific studies has shown that today’s
temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium, nor
are they producing the most extreme weather – in stark
contrast to the claims of the environmentalists.”
This comprehensive study looked at tree rings, ice core samples
and historical accounts that allow scientists to accurately measure
temperatures at sites around the globe. The study found that there
was a warming period during the 9th and 14th centuries with
temperatures being much warmer than they are today.
Surprisingly, the study also “confirms claims that a
little ice age set in around 1300, during which the world cooled
dramatically. Since 1900, the world has begun to warm up again
– but has still to reach the balmy temperatures of the middle
ages.”
Perhaps the most damning piece of evidence found in this study
is that “the timing of the end of the little ice age is
especially significant, as it implies that the records used by
climate scientists date from a time when the earth was relatively
cold, thereby exaggerating the significance of today’s
temperature rise.”
This is truly amazing. Let’s recap what has happened here.
A respected university that is known for its leftist leanings has
completed the most comprehensive study ever done on global warming
that found that if global warming is occurring it is because we are
still coming out of a mini-ice-age that ended in 1900. Oh, but it
gets even better.
Many environmentalists base their claims of global warming on a
past article in Nature magazine in which B.D. Stanter shows 20
years of rising temperatures in the southern hemisphere. What
environmentalists do not tell you is that this article has lost all
of its scientific merit as researches have studied temperatures in
the same region using data from 1955-1995, only to conclude that
there have not been any significant temperature changes during this
time.
In short, environmentalists have been using data from the last
20 to predict doom and gloom for the planet. Once scientific data
is spread out so we can look at actual trends, we find that earth
has always gone through cooling and heating periods based on the
cycles of the sun. This is proven further by the Harvard study
because man did not have automobiles and coal burning power plants
during the middle ages.
Another interesting point has to be made here. Even if women and
men were causing global warming, why should we care? As Dr Philip
Stott, the professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of
London, told the Telegraph, “severe famines and economic
collapse followed the onset of the little ice age around 1300. When
the temperature started to drop, harvests failed and
England’s vine industry died. It makes one wonder why there
is so much fear of warmth.” Very well said.
This proves that Walt Williams was right when he said, “If
you do not know anything, become an environmentalist.” See,
you do not have to have any intelligence to be an environmentalist.
All you have to do is preach doom and gloom, wear sheets for
clothes and see how long you can go without a shower. It is more of
an intellectual endeavor to find the proof to show that global
warming is not happening.
However, it is becoming easier to convince people when the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Harvard
University have overwhelming proof that man-made global warming is
a myth.
Jerel Thomas, Student, political science