Posted on 12/17/2021 2:42:55 AM PST by Kaslin
No thoughtful person believes that human beings can substantially change the Earth's climate. Even the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, composed of climate activists rather than objective observers, has admitted that there is no practical way for Americans to reduce global temperatures.
At the same time, the IPCC recognizes that natural forces play an important role in climate change and that in the past, these forces have altered the climate more dramatically than anything happening today, and this entirely without the influence of fossil fuels. During the Medieval Warm Period (900 to 1200 A.D.), the Earth's temperatures were warmer than they are now, while in the Little Ice Age (1200 to 1850 A.D.), they were much colder.
Both of these periods of climate change were fairly recent, and neither was influenced by humans. In fact, the climate has been changing dramatically throughout the Earth's history. Is it possible that these natural climate variations suddenly ceased just since 1990, when the idea of global warming came into vogue?
Natural variations are attributed to a number of forces, including solar cycles, shifts in the Earth's tilt, volcanic activity, and changing ocean currents. Past variations in the Earth's temperatures were much greater than what we have experienced since 1850, and none of these previous variations was man-made.
Since 1850, temperatures have risen slightly off a low baseline, but they remain significantly below those of the Medieval Warm Period. Note the IPCC's guarded statement that "[e]ach of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850." That's to say, warmer than what the Earth's temperatures have been throughout much of its history, including the past 800 years.
Climate activists warn that polar ice is melting and that the oceans will rise, with devastating consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes, the more you work, the more energy you use. So if anything is causing global warming it is government workers that require people to work so much to support them.
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