Global Warming, help!

Global Warming is the modern day religion, but what about its atheists?

In my view, all this global warming business has just turned into a furfy of those for and those against. Global Warming is the new religion but absent from any atheists. I personally am very skeptical about this whole business and really don't think that the projected forecast by Al Gore- an apocalypse- is very likely to happen.

Past Changes

And I'm not just being rebellious or ignorant, in fact I've looked and the science and it basically agrees with my thesis: world temperatures continually fluctuate and have done so for our whole existence. In medieval times, we went through the Medieval Climate Optimum, a period of mass heat which helped fuel the disease of the plague. In Dickens' time people were skating on the Thames (in London).

The chart below shows what I'm trying to say:
As you can see the graph shows how great the temperature changes have been over the past 450 00 years and temperatures have clearly driven high above the base line in the past.

The Greenhouse Effect

This is not the only argument against Global Warming. The Greenhouse Effect, a scientific theory, is always used as evidence by those who believe in Global Warming. For those who don't know, the theory states that these particular gases float around in our atmosphere and when the suns rays hit them they heat up and retain this heat, warming the world below.

I agree, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have grown tremendously, its a fact I can't escape and is a result of the Industrial Revolution- all i ask is, who cares?
CO2 only forms a small part of this Greenhouse Effect, only about 9-14%. It is water vapor which causes up to 70% of the effect. Water vapor! Thats the stuff which rises from water bodys when the sun hits them. Its the stuff that churns out of your kettle... its just plain old steam!!

So, if global warming really is happening, and if the Greenhouse Effect really is causing a detrimental effect to the atmosphere, then why do these supporters never take into account the actual scientific data. the problem is, these people who operate under a so-called 'science' are only operating under a theory. Global Warming, like most things in science, has not been completely proven, its still only a theory. It's in grade 7 textbooks, ' a hypothesis, proposition or theory is scientific only if it is falsifiable.' Karl Popper once said that, but under the banner of science, the Global Warming supporters don't allow for any differring opinion, they simply block it out and say 'this is the way it is and all those opposing it are either mad or stupid.' Here, they have completely contradicted all that skeptics say. I'd ask you to comment and answer some of these questions because I simply cannot find any data which backs up the hysteria.

There is no data to show that the lower tropospheric temperature levels have risen. This area of our atmosphere is where these greenhouse gases lie and would be the first area to show signs of heat. This begs the question, in the name of science why are scientists collecting data from land based stations which may be effected by urban development?

Ice Caps

The other debate of believers is that the Arctic ice caps are melting. But what about the Antarctic ice caps? These are actually increasing. This is taken from the University of Illinois' website,

The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km. The observed sea ice record in the Southern Hemisphere (1979-present) is not as long as the Northern Hemisphere. (meaning it has not been tracked as long as the North Pole) Prior to the satellite era, direct observations of the Southern Hemisphere sea ice edge were sporadic.

More than 17,000 scientists have already signed a petition by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine saying, in part, “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” It is these scientists that Global Warming believers continually attempt to silence.

So what is happening?

I think what is happening is that our temperature is being greatly influenced by solar activity. This would explain why the Earth is heating. In this theory my belief is, that solar activity increases proportionally with temperature levels. The theory would state that as the suns rays become stronger, the oceans get warmer creating condensation. This condensation rises in the form of water vapor and floats in the atmosphere. This would support the Greenhouse Effect theory as temperatures therefore get warmer as more water vapor is added to the atmosphere. This would also support the current theory that greenhouse gases are rising.

This is backed by data shown in the documentary, the Great Global Warming Swindle:


I believe that mankind has a great responsibility to protect the earth but through the CO2 model, the gas is simply not strong enough to be a major contributor to the Greenhouse Effect.