Thursday, April 17, 2008
Global warming or cooling?
So where do I weigh in on this debate. Well, I'll tell you first that almost every meteorologist who actually took his/her curriculum on a campus and not through correspondence believes the same way I do. Why is this relevant to the argument? I have found these people to have vast scientific knowledge, not only of their speciality but also of scientific processes in general. Climatologists who study the history of weather tell us these kind of global warm ups have happened before and the end result may really surprise you. GLOBAL COOLING! If you go and look at the data from the past you will find evidence in the polar ice cap that the last time we had global warming of this magnitude we also had what was considered the last ice age. We call it the last little ice age because in aspect of time it was relatively short. So the debate continues, however I think it's significant that the overwhelming majority of weather scientists think the whole global warming argument has been inflated and is not a scientific argument but a political one.
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Greg, as you know, I couldn't agree with you more. What is important to note is that, not only would one major eruption from a super-volcano off-set the amount of anthropogenic carbon emissions emitted over the past 1,000 years, but also that, if you analyze the last 10,000 years of climate data, you will clearly see signs of variability. It is also important to note that within an interglacial period (much like the one that exists now) it is not uncommon to experience a warming trend before cooling sets in. In the end, I guess my argument is, let the media and politicians paint themselves into a corner, the data is out there and it states climate change remains a natural occurrence.
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