The So-Called Crisis

First of all, I must clearly state that this is an opinion piece. I am not a scientist. I

will have little other random websites as a backup for any claims I make. I however to the

best of my ability, will avoid making false claims which may discredit my work or myself.

Global Warming, such a scary notion. When ever I bother to turn on that cesspool known as

the television, I'm often bombarded with commercials from some Discovery Channel

documentary on what Global Warming will due to us all, and how it's mankind's fault. Over

and over. They make it pretty clear that we're all going to die. Shortly, and it's entirely

our fault. That out mutilation on nature is coming back to slaughter our entire species, as

well as many others that walk this world. Imagine explaining that one to a god. Well sorry

man, I sorta had a bad habit of leaving the lights on when I left home. Seriously though,

are these incessant scare tactics accomplishing anything, besides drawing masses in to two

hour long documentaries that few people would normally watch?

Scare tactics is a commonly propaganda technique. Well according to the Merriam-Webster

Online Dictionary, this is actually a form of terrorism[1]. Our government is obviously not

waging their so called war, very well.

But before I allow myself get consumed by that tangent, let me continue. So Global Warming

is going to melt the ice caps, which will drown most of those, then result in an Ice Age.

Again I am no scientist, but how is Global Warming going to lead straight to an ice age?

Whatever, I'll hold my skepticism for a few paragraphs. Global Warming will destroy out

crops and before killing us, should make life unbearable. And um kill some animals of some

shit like that. I don't know, all I know is that we are all going to die. And it's our own

fault, right?

Well let us look at the causes of Global Warming. Green houses gases! Well it turns out

most scientists aren't sure. The main gases supposedly responsible include Carbon Dioxide

and Methane gas. It seems that Methane gas is more harmful than Carbon Dioxide to our

atmosphere[2]. And apparently cows produce more Methane gas than mankind does[3]. But it

also seems that termites may release more Methane gas than both mankind and cattle

combined.

And we're constantly being told that this has been building since the Industrial

Revolution. That much can be disproved by the many scientists who cried wolf over Global

Cooling in the 70's. Such a quote was made by Lowell Ponte in 1976: "It is a cold fact: the

Global Cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive

challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we

make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our

species[5]"

And accordign to these "factoids" water is what's gonna kill us all:

* Water vapour is responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect

* Carbon Dioxide only contributes 3.6% to the greenhouse effect

* Of that 3.6%, only 3.2% is contributed by man[6]

And according to www.dailytech.com, NASA suffered from the Y2K Problem[7]

* There were random unaccountable jumps in temperature data within the United States

starting around January 2000

* Those jumps were to significantly higher temperatures than those from years before

* After the error was identified, the new formula was applied, and the data tabulated,

temperatures for the last ten years dropped by as much as 0.14 degrees[7]

This means that 1998 is no longer the warmest year on the books, making half the top 10

sitting before World War II, and the years 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 were all cooler than

1900.