Just for the record, I live in Massachusetts where it is currently 25 degrees outside.  I wouldn’t mind a little global warming.  However, the scientific evidence is mounting that not only is global warming a myth, but due to a period of inactivity in sun spots, we are about the enter a period of global cooling (caused by nature–not by man).

There are two places to get good information on the current state of global warming.  One is ongoing.  The site is called wattsupwiththat and generally has current posts on things you won’t hear in the news and mistakes that have been made in calculating the earth’s temperature.  For example, it turns out the reported ‘rapid rise’ in temperatures in central Russia in October was due to the fact that they had mistakenly reported September’s temperature data for October.  Since September was warmer than October, that tended to skew the results.  They also have occasional pictures of where some of the instruments to record the earth’s temperature are placed.  (surfacestations.org has pictures of many of the places where the temperatures are being monitored–one right next to the air conditioning exhaust from a large building).

The second occasional place to get good information on global warming is the American Thinker website.  There is a rather lenghty and rather scientific article there now at American Thinker explaining that global warming is simply not happening.  The article states very directly that–

There is no significant man made global warming.  There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always changed.  But mankind’s activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the natural forces.

Through all history, Earth has shifted between two basic climate regimes: ice ages and what paleoclimatologists call “Interglacial periods”.  For the past 10 thousand years the Earth has been in an interglacial period…. [where] the Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes. Clearly from our point of view, an interglacial period is greatly preferred to the deadly rigors of an ice age.  Mr. Gore and his crowd would have us believe that the activities of man have overwhelmed nature during this interglacial period and are producing an unprecedented, out of control warming. 

Well, it is simply not happening.  Worldwide there was a significant natural warming trend in the 1980’s and 1990’s as a Solar cycle peaked with lots of sunspots and solar flares.  That ended in 1998 and now the Sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer Sun spots, and the global temperatures have gone into decline.  Earth has cooled for almost ten straight years.  So, I ask Al Gore, where’s the global warming?

 

We need to be very careful what laws and regulations are passed in the name of preventing global warming.  It is simply not a proven theory, and one wonders what mischief it will be used as a cover for.