Concept of Global Warming Widely Accepted

“Global Warming” has definitely impacted the world, whether it be from an actual temperature rise of the earth or the steady rise in the number of those who believe the earth is undergoing changes that have never before occurred…all because of humans’ way of life. Climate change has become an ongoing event that threatens man’s survival on earth, some believe. We are told that research shows us that the world has become hotter than at any time during the past 1000 years. Some scientists tell us that global warming is changing population sizes, growth rates, timing of plant flowering, as well as changing the intensity and frequency of storms, droughts, and is also melting glaciers which raise the level water of the earth’s oceans. Humans’ way of life is said to cause this potentially devastating climate change that is said to be caused by the emission of heat trapping gases produced by vehicles, power plants, industrialization, and the cutting down of the earth’s forests. It is thought that as gases are expelled over the earth, they act as a cover which over-heats the planet and is a threat to our very existence. We are told this by much of the news media because this is the widely accepted view they want us to believe although there are many scientists in the world who do not hold the same view as I have described according to public documentation.

Cities That Existed Before Automobiles or Industrialization Found Buried

While the concept of “global warming” is relatively new, change in the earth is as old as the earth itself. A few years ago archaeologists located, it is believed, sites of ancient Phoenician harbors in seaports from Mediterranean trade thousands of years ago. Geologists attempted to map out former coastlines that have been buried by years and years of sediment. In the 1930’s, we are told that a French archaeologist, Antoine Poidebard, found the location of a harbor of ancient Tyre on the Lebanese coast, which is now submerged. Later work is said to have found a part of the old city. These findings tell us that the earth has undergone changes for many, many years and whole cities have become extinct. Somehow, when we read of a buried city, its psychological impact is not as great until we see parts of a city under water such as we all witnessed with Hurricane Katrina. It is thought that places where people once lived have been covered by water due to rising sea levels or other phenomena that occurred before the automobile and industrialization which are blamed today for much of earth’s changing climate.

Records of Earth’s Temperatures Less Than 300 Years Old

Civilizations have inhabited the earth long before the invention of automobiles, power plants, industrialization, thermometers, and evidence of the changing earth has been found in buried cities discovered in archeological digs. In 1724, two hundred eighty-four years ago, Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer. To say that the earth is warming today at a rate that has never before occurred during the last 1000 years can only be a guess and is not backed up by written records. There was no way to measure the earth’s temperature before the invention of thermometers.

Israeli Astrophysicist Nir Shaviv

There are scientists today who do not believe that the earth is warming and some believe the earth may actually be cooling. Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv, we are told, has been doing research for years to establish a connection between rising levels of CO2 and rising temperatures. In his study, Dr. Shaviv found that meteorites that fell to the Earth after passing through the Milky Way sustained up to 10% more cosmic ray damage than others. That kind of cosmic ray variation, Dr. Shaviv believes, could alter global temperatures by as much as 15% –ample to switch ice ages on or off and evidence of the extent to which cosmic forces influence Earth’s climate. Dr. Shaviv believes that any warming of the earth is due to solar activity. He writes in his research that “small but statistically significant temperature variations (of about 0.1°C) exist in the global temperature, following the 11 year solar cycle.” Dr. Shaviv further writes “One mechanism which can give rise to a notable solar/climate link was suggested by the late Edward Ney of the U. of Minnesota, in 1959. He suggested that any climatic sensitivity to the density of tropospheric ions would immediately link solar activity to climate. This is because the solar wind modulates the flux of high-energy particles coming from outside the solar system.” To read more of Dr. Shaviv’s research findings, check out his website at http://www.sciencebits.com/ice-ages.

Scientific Truth Requires Open Mind

The main point that I would like to make from a non-scientific observation is that hearing the entire account of any given theory certainly cannot offend and listening with an open mind might even move us to the truth about global warming. To accept a theory without substantial evidence or without making an allowance for other possibilities contain greater potential for harm. To change the civilized world’s way of life because of an unproven theory will not be an advancement for mankind, but a regression. While industrialized nations of the world should limit air pollution and waste of valuable natural resources, differing views should be scrutinized thoroughly. Not to do so will give credence to, as well as endorse, those theories that exist only due to the assimilation of the most advantageous marketing approach and will limit man’s ability to prepare for a real future whether ready or not.