A recent report from the British Meteorological Service
further chips away at the concocted story suggesting that our planet is racing
headlong for a global warming disaster of human origin. Recently released global temperature
data indicate that there has been no increase in overall global temperature
over the last 16 years. That being
said, we may well be in a current long-term trend upward as earth continues to
emerge from the last ice age.
However, this is long-term, i.e., over thousands of years, and in no way
supports the idea, promoted by Al Gore and others, of impending doom for our
planet. As I pointed out in my
assessment of the global warming issue in “A Path To The Gold”, to believe that
we humans have the capacity to alter the enormous forces of nature responsible
for global climate is an extreme stretch of egotism.
A recent review by David Noel of the Ben Franklin Center for
Theoretical Research in Australia provides an excellent analysis of just how
puny our capability is compared to the enormous natural factors that determine
global temperature. Thermal energy
received from the sun, from within the earth and modulated by ocean currents
makes any human component of the equation insignificant. On a scale where energy received from
the sun is one million thermal units per day, the total amount of daily energy
used by man is only 77, or 7 thousands of 1 %. Noel also points out that the earth, under the influence of
massive atmospheric and oceanographic factors, is essentially in thermal
equilibrium. Radiation of energy
away from the earth balances that coming in. We humans just have to realize that no matter how much we
would like to believe that we are in control, when it comes to the earth and
nature, we’re like a fly on the back of an elephant and are just going along
for the ride.
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