A recent article in Investor’s Business Daily entitled ‘The Sun also Sets’ focused on the World’s Climate Change; except for the ‘minor’ difference that it was highlighting scientists who are seriously concerned about, believe it or not: Global Cooling! The article mentions by name several scientists in Canada and Russia working at several research institutes and also refers to study findings at other such institutions and universities. What these scientists have in common is the fact that they apparently never bought into the man-made global warming hype so many of their peers propagated but instead maintained an air of reality by focusing on our main source of energy on Earth, i.e., the Sun!
Yes, they are mostly solar researchers and have studied solar cycles, solar flares and related solar activities and correlated them from a historical perspective. According to the article, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany have found that the Sun has been burning more brightly over the last sixty years, attributing this to Earth’s one degree Celsius temperature over the past century. Mr. Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada’s national Research Council is among those looking at the Sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity. Scientists know that solar activity fluctuates in 11-year cycles but Tapping reports that the Sun has been disturbingly quiet during the current cycle. This lack of an increase in solar activity could forecast the beginning of a so-called Maunder Minimum, an event that apparently occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
It is the Sun that has over the millions of years affected our planet’s climate the most. Only people that choose to avoid reasoning, facts or have pointed agendas that conflict with this would dispute this statement (remember Earth has cycled in and out of many ice ages before many populated its surface). R. Timothy Patterson, a professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geosciences Center of Canada’s Carleton University stated in ‘The Sun also Sets’: “CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet’s climate on long, medium or even short time scales. I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the Sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet.” He continues: “Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again.”
A Hoover Institution Study a few years ago examined historical data and came to similar conclusions. The study stated: “The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated always as expected and the pattern was so clear that statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in one hundred. Try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures.” The study concludes that if you shut down all the world’s power plants and factories, “there would not be much effect on temperatures.”
Now then, what do we make of this? Should we just ignore these professional and reasoned scientists and researchers? Who are they compared to, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Global Warming advocate Al Gore? After all, Mr. Gore invented the Internet as he told all of us years ago. He got an Oscar and an Emmy for his Man Made Global Warming fear mongering, so, how can these researchers dare to even utter their contrary findings and opinions? We here at Back to Common Sense do not have the answers to these questions but when witnessing the current climate in this country, we have our doubts about the Global Warming hype. To hear U.S. Senator John Kerry tell the world that he believes the recent tornadoes in several States are a result of Global Warming is stretching our tolerance for nonsense to the absolute limit. It is all about the definition: If my nutty neighbor defines cloudy days as night, then in his world this must be true. This is what is happening with Global Warming, but regarding extreme temperatures.
It appears that a vast number of politicians, if not a vast majority of them have bought into Man-Made Global Warming and are determined to do something about it. It appears that the old adage: “Don’t confuse me with facts, I have made up my mind” has won the battle and our elected officials are dead set on fixing the problem. There is almost a religious fever or fanaticism here when it comes to doing something about Global Warming. This arrogance is truly scary, if not outright frightening! It will not be long until Federal Laws will be passed in Washington D.C. and also in States across the country that will require all of us to pay more in taxes to battle Global Warming and all its side effects like tornadoes, hurricanes and probably earthquakes and other natural disasters. The laws will also curtail our individual freedoms in that there will in all likelihood be limits on recreational activities, travel and lifestyles by putting fees on these things and who knows what else they, our elected officials, can think of. Their collective hunger for power and money (taxes and fees) is simply insatiable. For them, the politicians, there will never ever be enough money to spend.
To use Man Made Global Warming as the latest reason, scheme or excuse, call it what you want, to collect money from us is nothing but dreadful and absolutely disgusting. But it is, as we have stated in a previous article, America’s Number One Enemy “Ignorance” that allows that to happen. If the great masses in our country continue to be willingly uninformed and remain ignorant, Man Made Global Warming will be soon a taxable reality!
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