The debate : Global Climate Change and Global warming

By David Logan

The great debate, or at least side debate, during the dawn of the 21^st century is if in fact global climate change is affected by man in a truly measurable degree. There is no disputing the fact that man is burning fossil fuels at a record rate, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the process, but the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still trace, 380 molecules out of one million, That is .00038%.

The anti-fossil fuel scientist created computer models that showed steady rises in temperature that proved correct throughout the 1990's but then reality altered course with the models in this new millennium. Temperatures have actually dipped back down, and in fact, measurements by NASA show that between 2007 and 2008 the ice caps have increased by 30%, and that was a conservative estimate.

The rapid change in climate is not anything new, at many times in Earth's past there have been periods of ice reaching the equator, and of almost no ice to be found on the surface.

What were the causes of these major climate changes? Massive volcanoes that dump massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? Many think not, in fact, three major factors seem to lead to radical climate shift.

One: The axial tilt of the Earth, influences how much sunlight strikes the north pole. More sunlight would of course create shorter winters therefor induce more melting of the polar ice cap.

Two: On occasion, quite often in the galactic scheme of time, Jupiter and Saturn change the eccentricity of the earth, meaning the ellipse is elongated or decreased, increasing or decreasing our distance from the Sun.

Three: The most important factor in our climate, is the output of our Sun, which by the way was increasing throughout the 1980's and the 1990's, thus increasing our overall temperature.

I am reminded of the articles about a great ice age coming, written in the 1970's. But the difference is that today Governments are getting behind this unproven science of man made climate change. So one has to ask themselves, who is pushing this agenda? Any more there are so many corporate sponsors that it is hard to truly know, but the leaders pushing the usual rhetoric are making a nice paycheck.

All the while we seem to be missing the true climate crisis that seems to be coming. In the last 20 years we have lost 70% of all life in the wild, including oceans. There are satellite photo's of stretches of ocean awash in the flood lights of fishing vessels sweeping the sea of life. There are photo's of entire swaths of jungle and forest gone, replaced by dark cinders that testify to the tactic of clearing trees with fires.

Our biggest concern should be that this is an ecosystem, counter reliant on species interacting, and that we are taking out huge parts of this closed loop. How long will we delve into an unproven pseudo science that is no longer backed by hard data, and ignore the real scientific problem we face today that does have scientific fact to back it up?