Global warming ???????????????????????

Jonathon Labonne: No

Elsie Resner: Global "warming" is a natural process that has occurred in conjunction with Global "cooling" for the last 4.6 billion years. 700 million years ago, the entire Earth was covered in ice from poles to equator. Then the Earth warmed. There were no people around then. In fact, the only life that existed was single celled organisms in the oceans. Over the last 500 million years the Earth has been both much warmer than it is now and much colder than it is now. CO2 levels have varied greatly as well. In the far past, CO2 levels were as much as 6% of the atmosphere, 150 times the .0380% we have now. The Earth has been warming for about the last 350 years, since the "Little Ice Age" of the middle ages. That very cold period (snow in summer in Europe and the Americas) lasted about 300 years and was preceded by the Medieval Warm Period centered around the year 1000 (When Vikings landed on the island they named "Greenland" and farmed for! 300 years till the Little Ice Age began). The Medieval Warm Period was a few degrees warmer than the Earth is now, yet apparently sea levels and temperatures did not kill off humans, animals or plants.Yet now, a group of government funded scientists whose chicken-little pronouncements of doom, along with government and UN officials anxious to raise taxes and gain power over every aspect of your life, PLUS a group of radical environmentalists are all working side by side to use the "threat" of "global warming" to kill off the economy of the world. They blame people for causing the warming (which stopped in 1998. The Earth has dropped over 1/2 degree in the last two years alone). SO, for the first time in history, the Earth's normal changes in temperature, weather, and climate are being blamed on people. There are tens of thousands of real climatologists, meterologists, paleontologists, and historians who disagree with both the fact of warming (it's not happening) and t! he cause (natural, not human caused).The effect, if it is happ! ening, is that with more CO2 in the atmosphere plants grow much better (CO2 is plant food). It will also be "warmer" although no one will notice the temperature changes. It's likely that your overnight temperature last night was 20 or more degrees fahrenheit cooler than your high for today will be (My range is 57 - 80 today). In addition, if you live in the temperate zones of the Earth, you may notice that in winter it gets really really cold and in the summer it can get really really hot. So every 6 months, your average temperature changes by 30-80 degrees. Are you really going to notice 3 more?A possible solution to global warming is for all humans to disappear from the planet. That's not likely to be something most people will agree to, so we have to shut down our economies in order to stop producing CO2, which is also something that most people will not agree to, since economies are what produce food, jobs, and keep people alive. The other solution is to blame it! on God or Nature and pray that they won't fry us.BUT, assume that I'm really wrong. Assume that we humans are the cause of a huge temperature increase that's going to devastate the planet AND assume that global warming is going to be WORSE than the most idiotic computer models (which cannot come close to predicting TODAY's climate based upon the records we have from the last 100 years.So, the temperature will go up 10 degrees on average over the next 100 years. This means that:1) Most of the ice in Greenland and in Antarctica will melt and sea levels will go up say, 50 feet. New York City becomes Venice, Venice and Bangladesh disappear, New Orleans and southern Louisiana become the Netherlands, California cliffside homes on the shore become beachfront homes, the Mississippi river will have levees 150 feet high, many islands around the world shrink or are completely covered. Say that this part happens in just 10 years. That's 5 feet a year, six inches a month, one fifth o! f an inch a day. Most people can outwalk that rise and would have a cou! ple of months to get to higher ground, get onto ships/boats/etc. No one will drown. What will happen is that many inland cities will become hugely crowded. Many millions of acres of productive farmland will be flooded.2) Most of the increase in warmth will be in the temperate and northern/southern areas of the planet. The tropics will remain much as they are now, hot, humid, full of rainforest (the parts not submerged). The temperate areas and northern areas will develop longer growing seasons. Areas that had been too cold for farming or that had a short growing season will then become hugely productive areas for food.3) In order for hundreds of millions of refugees from flooded areas to be accommodated and to avoid famine, plagues, and war, many will be resettled in areas where they can farm or find jobs to produce products that those hundreds of millions of people will need.4) There will still be deserts and rainforests, just as there have been for the last 500 million ye! ars of life on land.5) There will still be floods and droughts, just as in the last 500 million years of life on land.6) There will still be hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms, just as there have been for the last 500 million years of life on land.7) Humans facing such a huge crisis will have a century to develop means to overcome the changes in sea level and temperature.8) Since everyone already has an air conditioner in Florida and Arizona, they'll continue to use them (where the land is still above sea level). People in Minnesota and Maine will buy more air conditioners.9) Northern Canada will grow in food production, as will Siberia and possibly much of Australia.10) People will adjust to the new sea level, the new temperatures, the milder or missing winters, the newly crowded cities and countries.11) Life will go on. Some species of plants and animals will go extinct, others (most of them) will adapt.So, even if a worst case scenario occurs and we humans "cause" ! a huge temperature increase because we do what we do, we'll adjust to i! t. Just like right now where there are people living in the hottest deserts, the hottest/most humid rainforests, the icy wastelands of the far north, and on the beaches in summer homes (which will be relocated to the new beaches farther inland).BUT, THE GOOD NEWS!!!!!!Global warming is not happening. Humans are NOT causing it. Doubling the CO2 in the air would only raise the temperature a single degree. It was warmer 1000 years ago (when Vikings named Greenland "GREENLAND", not "ICELAND 2", and farmed there until the 1300's). Temperature changes and climate changes are NATURAL and have ALWAYS happened, even when humans were not around.Think of "global warming" as a massive hoax being used by some dishonest scientists to secure grants for their "research", being used by politicians to gain the power to tell everyone where to live, what to eat, where to work, what toys they can have (or not), being used by environmentalists to work at eradicating evil humans from the planet s! o that Gaia can be what Gaia wants to be.We didn't kill off the dinosaurs. We didn't wipe out the tens of millions of species that died out before humans were even out of trees and walking upright. We didn't cause the numerous ice ages of the last million years, and we aren't going to cause the ice age that will probably begin to occur within the next 1-5000 years. We don't have that power. We couldn't do it if we tried. But think to yourself. Would I rather be sitting at home in Ohio with air conditioning on looking out over the gulf of Mexico OR would I rather be in Florida as a refugee from the two mile thick ice sheet that covers what used to be Canada and the northern US?Check the link below for pictures of the Sun at many different wavelengths. The orange one at the bottom left shows the Sun and its sunspots. As you can see, there are none. The new solar cycle was supposed to have started about a year and a half ago. It hasn't. The last few times that the Sun has look! ed like it does now, the Earth cooled, summers shortened, crops failed,! snow fell in July in the northeast US, people starved in Europe. That's what you should be afraid of, that and the politicians that are lying to you....Show more