As I have previously noted, the best website I have found on the subject of climate change is wattsupwiththat.com.  It’s very well done and has a lot of back-up information on why global warming is a hoax.  But sometimes things are just plain obvious.  Here are some stories that the global warming alarmists might want to take a look at.

First, according to the Calgary Herald. Rex Tillerson has told the press that Exxonmobil Corporation, the world’s largest crude oil refiner, supports taxing carbon dioxide as the most efficient way of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.  Think about this for a minute.  When you breathe, you exhale carbon dioxide.  Trees use it in photosynthesis.  Just think, if governments can find a way to tax everyone on the amount of air they breathe, they would never have to worry about revenue again.  Most of the population would be broke (except those that figured out how to get in on the gravy train) and our society would be changed forever.  Where is common sense in this debate?  It gets worse.

Second, as the alarmists scream ‘the sky is falling, we are going to overheat tomorrow’, Breitbart.com is reporting Siberia-like conditions in Europe.  Madrid’s airport was closed due to a rare, heavy snowfall, and several rivers in Germany were frozen.  Meanwhile, the Dutch are enjoying skating over frozen canals and lakes.

Third, according to AccuWeather.com a hugh snowstorm is headed for the east coast of the US, followed by what is expected to be the coldest weather in fifteen years.  In Massachusetts, we have a winter storm warning in effect from 6 pm today to noon tomorrow.  We are expected to get somewhere around 8 to 14 inches of snow, followed later next week by temperatures remaining in the teens during the day and single figures at night (not factoring in wind chills).

The bottom line on this, to me, is that we are not getting both sides of the story.  As sunspot activity has decreased since 1998, global temperatures have cooled.  You can do a graph of global temperature and sunspot activity and you will see that the patterns are similar.  The warming and cooling periods over the last century have not been related to human activity; they have been related to cyclical sunspot activity.  I am sure that the activity of man has had some small impact on the ecology of the earth, but actually, we are not that important in the grand scheme of things.  I believe we need to be careful about pollution–we need to use every scientific method we can to keep our negative impact on the earth as low as possible–recycle, treat chemical and human waste so that it is non-polluting, etc., but I think the whole global warming hype has more to do with economics than science.