Fire Influences Global Warming More Than Previously Thought

MILLIONS OF BURNED ACRES RELEASE CARBON INOT ATMOSPHERE - WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED?

Apparently not eco-p.c. scientists with an anti-human agenda.

There have been many alternating periods of cooling and warming throughout the Earth’s past. The most recent period began with with the Pleistocene Ice Age starting 110,000 years ago and giving way, 14,700 years ago, to the Bolling warm period for 800 years. This in turn gave way to the Older Dryas cooling for 300 years, then the Allerod warming for 700 years, and so on, until the cooling of the Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1850. Since 1850, we have generally had a period known as the "Modern Warming". Although there was a period from 1945 -1984 (period of massive industrial expansion) when global temperatures dropped enough to cause many scientists to predict an imminent Ice Age. However, in general, the period from 1850 to present has been one of the most stable climate periods in the earth’s history. Many astronomers and climatologists predict we are headed for a new cooling period as our current interglacial period comes to an end.

Human-caused climate change is being promoted with religious zeal and there are eco-fundamentalist organizations which will do anything to silence critics. They have their holy books, dogma and their prophet, Al Gore. These modern day Druids are promoting a story which is frightening us witless, using guilt and urging penance for our carbon footprint sins. They’d like to burn me at the stake - but then there’s that non-eco friendly wood burning and smoke thing...

Further, it is obvious that solar cycles are responsible for much of the Earth’s climatic variation over time. Also, in view of the fact that there have been dozens of periods of warming and cooling, stretching back tens of millions of years, it should be apparent that these cycles were not anthropogenic in origin.

It is difficult for nonscientists to understand or engage in the debate over what causes climate change, and whether or not it can be stopped by new taxes, regulations, lifestyle restrictions, and slower growth, because dissenting voices are shouted down by true believers in the scientific community - who claim they alone have the authority to speak for the civilization they despise.

The debate on Global Warming would indeed be over if the religious hysteria in support of it were to subside, and the true facts and the motives of its proponents made known to the public.

R.L.Schaefer of CA @ Aug 24, 2009 12:41:37 PM