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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Global Warming

There is a lot of controversy going on about global warming. Many people say man is causing it and many people say that that is not the case. The point of this post is to show both sides of the coin and determine which side holds more water.
So, because I don’t like to beat around the bush I’m going to come out and just say that I do not believe that global warming is caused by man. I drew this conclusion after carefully looking at all the arguments, for and against it. I am going to show all the data here and explain why I drew the conclusion that I did. So here we go…


Argument: Increased greenhouse gasses such as CO2 are holding in more of the suns heat and causing the temperature to rise. The increase of these gasses is caused by man.

The greenhouse effect is the foundation of the man caused global warming theory. It’s the idea that specific gases in our atmosphere hold in the heat from the sun which allows the world to be warmed. And when these gases increase, more of the suns heat is held in. There is a fundamental flaw in this theory however; the earth is not heated in this way.
The radiation from the sun does indeed penetrate the atmosphere, but it is absorbed by the earth. As the ground absorbs the heat, it heats up the air in direct contact to it causing that, now hot air to rise. This forces the cold air above it downward for the ground to heat and so on. You can actually see this effect on a hot summer day when you can see the waves of heat emanating from the ground. Although there is a small amount of the suns radiation that is absorbed by clouds and water vapor and then emitted as heat, this effect is minimal at best. Scientists for man caused global warming purport that because of the way that the greenhouse effect works the atmosphere should be warmest at a certain altitude. Through tests, they have been unable to show this temperature difference. They have instead found that, as we have known, the temperature gets colder the higher the altitude. The fact is that the earth doesn’t work at all like a. Most of the suns heat is absorbed by the earth.




Now let’s talk about greenhouse gases just for the sake of argument. The reality is that man only produces .28% of all total greenhouse gases that are expelled into the atmosphere. In realty, 95% of these gases are actually expelled by water vapor. As such a small influence on these gases, it seems impossible that we could have such a drastic effect on the environment.

So, if the greenhouse effect doesn’t cause changes in temperature, then what does? Well, scientists have found that there are cosmic rays that are constantly bombarding the earth. These cosmic rays combine with water vapor and become clouds. The clouds block the heat producing radiation that meets the ground, meaning that the temperature stays lower. So, the more clouds there are, the cooler the earth is.
As we continue to look at this we also find that the solar winds that are constantly being produced by the sun, and rushing past the earth, are also having an effect. The more solar winds there are, the fewer cosmic rays make it to the earth’s surface and the fewer clouds form to block heat producing radiation from the sun, thus making the earth’s temperature warmer. This phenomenon has been recorded and has been found to correlate to the temperature changes almost exactly. Therefore, with more actual data to support that the greenhouse effect does not have much of an effect at all, and that the sun’s solar winds that effect cosmic rays effecting cloud production has a more significant influence on the earths temperature, it is only logical to conclude that the current warming trend is not caused by man, but instead by the sun and its natural effect on our weather.

I just want to make one very important point about this whole issue. I believe that it is important for us as human beings to take care of the environment (the earth) in which we live. But what I do not condone is the scare tactics used by others in order to force people to accept their opinions, thereby controlling them. Science is not about consensus; it is about being able to prove something consistently with reliable data. We have no reliable, factual data to show that man caused global warming is, or ever will actually be happening. Remember that there was a time when scientists all came to a consensus that the earth was flat. We all know how that turned out.
The unfortunate truth is that the U.S government alone spends upwards of $3 Billion a year on energy technologies that include those aimed at preventing man caused global warming. The jobs that this money creates are many, and to just say that man caused global warming isn’t real, then all those people are out of a job.

So, there it is. I know that what I have just said here is basically against what most media outlets are saying is “not a debated issue anymore,” but the problem is that it is a debated. I have included a video I found on Google Videos called the Great Global Warming Swindle along with my references and links that will more clearly explain the issues that I have talked about here. Please visit my links, I have links to places that agree, disagree and are neutral with the global warming debate, so please visit the links and do research on the subject. Don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourselves.

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