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Is the sky REALLY falling? Probably not
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
2/22/2007 11:50 AM |
The weather earlier this week seemed to be seriously out of alignment with the Global Warming crowd’s “The sky is falling” predictions. Someone sent me an e-mail saying, in effect, it’s a good thing we’re “suffering” with global warming, else all of Beautiful Marion County would have turned into an icicle by now. Good thought!
By the time you reach my age, you generally have developed a healthy skepticism toward whatever the latest, breathless "crisis" is. In my print column, I mentioned a number of times that the then-impending Y2K was going to be a bust, and my predictions proved true.
Despite what Al Gore has to say on the matter, I find it hard to believe the earth is warming due to man’s contributions to the so-called Greenhouse Effect. The Earth has gone through several Ice Ages, and each time, the frigid eras eventually gave way to more moderate climates, and all this ancient history happened long before the word industrialization was invented, in fact it probably all happened before the wheel was invented. I haven’t seen “An Inconvenient Truth,” but I doubt Mr. Gore mentions the end of the Ice Ages in his so-called documentary.
I didn't believe Gore when he said he invented the Internet, and I don't believe him now, either.
I have also come across some data that indicates the sun is warmer now than it was 20-30 years ago, and if the sun is getting warmer, then naturally the Earth will get warmer, too. (NASA has also reported that Mars is currently getting warmer, as well.) Nothing I am aware of that Man does on the surface of the planet affects the temperature on the Sun which is about 93 million miles away. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is one astronomical unit or “AU” as the astronomers call it. It would take 3,875 trips around the world at the equator to equal the distance from the Earth to the Sun. If you could fly 1,000 miles per hour and keep it up for 24 hours a day, every day, it would take over six months to travel from here to the Sun.
Somehow, I don’t think anything we do here on Earth could influence something that far away.
Nature rules her domain with cycles. Everything has a time and a place. Sometimes the cycle is up, sometimes it’s down, but one thing is for sure: It always repeats itself. Our current situation is just like the end of one of those previous Ice Ages, it’s just that we don’t have as many glaciers now as the Earth had back then.
I really don’t see the need to get all lathered up and in a panic over something that eventually will prove to be as impotent as Y2K was! I think the Global Warming Crowd’s panic is about as justifiable as Chicken Little’s was. |
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Re: Is the sky REALLY falling? Probably not |
By Debo on
2/21/2007 12:11 PM |
Thank you!! Someone who feels the same way I do; I was beginning to think I was alone! I have wanted to ask a Chicken Little why we have had ice ages in the past? And didn't the earth heal itself?
I haven't heard about the Sun or Mars being warmer, great information that I'll look into myself! |
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