Global Warming Hoax

We are destroying Earth. Our cars and factories are polluting the air around us; it is devastating to the ozone layer. Greenhouse gases are building, causing ice caps to melt and the world to flood.

Not quite.

Yes, the world is getting warmer. But no, this is not the end. Every climatologist will agree that Earth has been much hotter (and much colder) than it is now. Like everything else, Earth's climate goes through cycles.

The 1850s saw the end of the Little Ice Age; a terrible time that froze over the New York Harbor and killed many. It was rough; there were no heaters or electricity to keep people warm. At the same time, there were no heaters or electricity to emit greenhouse gases, but Earth was able to warm up all on its own.

By the 1930s, the temperature had risen so much that people began to worry about global warming. But then, in the1940s (when there was a drastic increase in carbon dioxide emissions), Earth began to cool again.

It cooled so much, in fact, that in the 1970s there was a global cooling scare. Mass media and scientists were convinced that Earth would freeze over and we would be faced with another ice age. Before the 1970s were even over, Earth began to warm again.

This increase in temperature did coincide with a large increase in industry. The American economy has grown by 150 per cent and automobile traffic by 143 per cent. But, during this same period of economic flux, air pollutants declined by 29 percent, toxic emission by 48.5 per cent, sulphur dioxide by 65 per cent, and airborne lead by 97.3 percent.

While America, after China, emits the most carbon dioxide, no one could compete with the amount of carbon dioxide released by earthquakes and volcanoes. Human activities contribute less than one percent of the total carbon atmospheric mass.

Not that carbon dioxide is such a bad guy anyway. Every living entity on this Earth requires it to live. With out carbon dioxide there is no photosynthesis. Without photosynthesis there is no food and there is no us. With the increase of carbon dioxide also came the increase of wheat in Australia (the third largest “polluter” in the world.)

Despite the hype that human pollutants are destroying the atmosphere, we are fueled and heated by an outside source: the sun. During the Little Ice Age of 1645 – 1715, there were very few occurrences of sunspots. A sunspot is a cooler, darker spot on the sun’s surface, which usually occur in clusters. It has been suggested that the sun is one per cent cooler when there are no spots.

Starting this year, it is predicted that solar storms will increase and peak in 2012. The cycle is predicted to be 30 to 50 percent stronger than last. This implies that our temperature increase on Earth has nothing to do with humans and the greenhouse gases we emit. Also, Mars is experiencing global warming as we speak. There are no cars on Mars. Some would hope that no human is arrogant enough to believe that our pollution is affecting Mars as well.