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Climate Change: Fact or Fiction
Baptist Student Creates Media Frenzy Over The Issue of Climate Change
Radical Environmentalism captures a student's
imagination, in turn the student produces a document with 46
signatures on it
called; "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the
Environment and Climate Change which received a lot of national media attention. This
document however, is not to be confused with the Southern
Baptist Convention itself as it has it's own "declaration" on climate change. According to the student,
his inspiration came about when in theology
class when his professor was lecturing on human responsibility on taking care of
Radical Environmentalists have been trying to put pressure
SBC for a few years now in hopes it would take up it's cause as well and help
promote stricter regulation on US businesses so it could supposedly influence the Earth's
climate. SBC doesn't regard the computer models as Gospel, and has question
them. But as the colleges in SBC get more liberal, there will be an eventual
shift in it's policy like in the eyes of the student who caused the media
frenzy. We need to take a closer look about climate change because for one
thing, it's not all what it appears to be and it could have an affect on the
standard of living in countries like the United States.
A Glimpse at Global Warming and Global Cooling
I believe the Southern Baptist Student who is now
worried now about the theory of humans changing the climate for the worst and
others who agree, do not have all the facts about it. Even President Bush has
changed his mind about Global Warming and started a series of mandates proposals
such fuel efficient cars, and lower emissions for future power plants to be
built in the next 10 years or more. The Earth's air is cleaner now than it was
30 years ago, yet more political figures are worried about it than ever before.
Media Censors Opposition And Government Grants
Media outlets for years since the mid-1980s began
to try and sway public opinion about Global warming after it's "little ice age"
of the 1970s was deem to be incorrect. When Clinton took office in 1992, the
global warming theory began to take off like leaps and bounds. More regulation
was needed they said. There were many opposing voices to the new 'consensus' but they were shunned
except for a few other outlets. Take last year for example in 2007, there were
reportedly six scientists on the networks including cable who were critical of
global warming, compared to over 30 in favor of a man-made warming just on CBS
alone. Government grants have also played an important role in creating a
'consensus' as it only will fund those who are "politically correct" on the
issue. While it's true businesses have funded some research for the other side
of this issue, they are generally looked upon as evil for doing so and do not
get the media attention as the other side does. In all reality in it's
objectiveness, the government should be funding both sides as there is good
cause to do so.
Historical Warming and Cooling
When it comes to historical climate change, let's
pick "Greenland" as the focal point of topic. It has a very cold climate, but
why call it "Greenland?" About a 1,000 years ago, the Vikings discovered
the country and named it. Why? Greenland at the time was much warmer and the
summers were longer, the Vikings were able to support cattle on the country for
300 years before it got too cold and had to leave. The ice during the Medieval
Warming when there were no cars or factories around, was very durable. So it's
not surprising to see Greenland's ice is still durable in another climate
During the 1970's as I remember them personally, was the decade of the scare of
Global cooling, as data was showing from 1940 to 1980 a decline in the earth's
temperature. Cars and factories polluted a lot back then as regulation wasn't as
numerous as it is today. Yet we seen a decline, but unlike Global Warming, the
threat of Global Cooling was pushed well into the future, about 10,000 years.
those same scientists (and more paid for by the taxpayers) who pushed for the
theory of the little "ice age" and endorsed by the mainstream liberal media are now advocating
human-made global warming.
reported the Oceans are loosing their heat
since 2003. The warming trend of the oceans peaked in 1998. Data from 1993-2003
showed the oceans warming up and was assumed by certain scientists and the
liberal media that this particular trend was following the global warming
The Data Collection for the Earth's
Surface temperatures thermometers has been
showing a warming trend (depending upon what block of years your looking at).
While the temperatures collected by satellites and weather balloons displayed no
warming trend. I always wondered why temperature reports would always flux for
the same block years. Now I know why, it's because the data gets revised quite
often. The IPCC surface record was lowered a number of times during the 1950's
for example, which it would make it more of a warming trend years later. The
balloon temperatures were adjusted as well. They showed no warming trend in the
late 70's early 80's. When certain countries whose data was removed from the
record, it would show more of a warming trend. So each time this part of the
record was attempted to be fix, the results would be more of a warming trend.
Satellites are the most accurate in collecting
temperature data that we know of, but space is a rough and hostile environment
which create flaws. The sensors generally don't last that long and always are in
need of replacements. For example, the National Snow and Ice Data Center had
remove it's January and February 2009 arctic ice data
because a sensor on a satellite was starting to deteriorate so badly that the
sensor was slowly changing ice into water. The error wasn't detected until a
month later concerning the flawed data. Also, satellites tend not to stay on the same orbit, but
drift. As a result, the data gets tainted. There have been six major revisions
to fix the flaws. And again, the adjustment makes it look like there is a
warming trend. Now when you take non-climate factors such as water, the Earth is
mostly covered in water, the reduction in temperature data begins to appear.
This sort of finding never gets included in the IPCC historical data collection.
The Arctic ocean is
warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the sea. The
Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some
places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to
the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point
to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of
temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that
scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Do you think this is Al Gore talking or writing,
or some recent liberal blog or a science article by special interest groups? Nope, it's
actually the US Weather Bureau in 1922.
The Closing of the Ozone is not so Good After
Those of us who remember the 90's well, remember
how UN scientists in particular were saying it was vital to correct the
so-called hole in the ozone. Spray cans were changed to help close the so-called
hole in the ozone. Well as it turns out, a new study reported by
Science Daily was released claiming the closure
of the ozone may actually cause more climate change (global warming). The report
goes on to say..."In the past few decades, the tropospheric winds in the
Southern Hemisphere have been accelerating closer to the planet's pole as a
result of increasing greenhouse gases and decreasing ozone. This wind change has
had a broad range of effects on the Earth's climate." Does that mean
we can now use spray cans which is not CFC friendly to slow the myth of man-made
climate change? The report is absurd, more on the alleged hole in the ozone
If history bares out that God's creation has
warmed and cooled historically, then what makes up compelled to try to stop
God's will? How do these computer models really know the difference?
Certainly you can't go by just how long man has been producing CO2, because
there have been cooling periods, and warming periods when man was not producing
CO2. How would these computer models detect if it's historical warming or not?
If Greenland once again starts to warm up like it did during the Medieval
Warming period who is to say it's historical or not?
The fact of the matter is, these computer models
really don't know the difference, they are only programmed to calculate certain
man-made formulas like certain levels of CO2 which is not realistic and then
tries to simulate what it has been programmed about the climate and finally
makes a prediction. This prediction is what most radical environmentalists
believe in and look for in their observations. But these computer models are not
accurate as it cannot simulate the weather in it's complete and ever changing
situation, and has some major flaws in it's formula as man still don't fully
understand God's nature (the climate).