Solar Cycles & Global Warming

Climate change is a very hot topic and a controversial one. I don’t know of many other issues other than abortion and taxes that stir up such emotion and angst in people.

I have spent hours researching the data myself  and have even put together an educational program geared to help my audience understand both sides of the debate…is the Earth warming on it’s own , or is man-kind responsible?

I’ve never been one to “stir the pot” on this issue, but now that I’m no longer in an industry where I have to be careful about sharing my opinion…I can share my opinion.

While the data proves that the earth has been warming, it’s supposed to warm after an ice age! The  increase in global temperatures this past century have waned since the mid 90′s. But keep in mind the timeline of the Earth and all the variables that contribute to climate change.

I just don’t believe man-kind is totally responsible. There are forces and variables out there I don’t think human science will ever exist long enough to flush out and understand. Our existence has been so brief..just a speck on the earth’s timeline. What do we really know?

I do know that the public has been totally misled and brain-washed into believing carbon dioxide is the devil we are creating…melting the ice caps and killing polar bears. We are also being brain-washed into an arrogance that we are capable of fixing what we are breaking.

In the last 30 years your exposure to the subject has come from those of power who manipulate what you do and don’t know about the true science of climate change. It’s complicated..and instead of calling it was it is…climate change… you hear global warming. And global warming has become a religion where you are being made to feel guilty if you aren’t worried about your carbon footprint, or spending more of your hard-earned money on “green” products. And this is just the beginning…be very worried about Cap-and-Trade and the governments attempts to “stop the warming”.

I do wish that more of the public at large would dig deeper on their own and search out the truth rather than believe what they  see, hear, and read from mainstream media sources.

One fact: Carbon dioxide is a TRACE greenhouse gas.  The real greenhouse gas is water vapor, an ever-changing gas in our atmosphere. Think about it. Modern meteorologists have a hard enough time getting the 5-7 day right using computer models that try to predict what tropospheric water vapor is going to do. Trying to figure out what this big player will do out 50-100 years? Impossible! It’s the same with carbon dioxide. Even though isotopes and carbon dating are helpful to study the past. Can we really use our super computers to estimate levels out decades or centuries? We can try, but do we make decisions on that data that impact millions of people now?

I want for the public to wake up to global warming, like they’ve awakened with the health care debate. I would be happy to be just one of many out there educating…one who doesn’t have a political or professional agenda, but just wants share the facts and search out the truth.

There are many fantastic websites out there to gather information, too many for me to share..but I did want to share this great article from Sky and Telescope which prompted me to write this blog. It talks about the solar cycles and how scientists are beginning to piece together the relationship between the cycles, the stratosphere and our oceans. Please read below and I’d love to hear your comments.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/56631092.html