No longer Global Warming... so lets change the name
19/07/08 14:07 Filed in: Personal
You know, something that's really amused me over the last few months has to be the way the media has switched tact's on the whole 'Global Warming' thing.
Earlier this year we had a very mild winter, in which ALL (and I mean ALL) news reports and weather reports stated that it was global warming in action. However, since March, it's been one of the mildest and wettest Summers for a number of years. No anybody who can be bothered to look at the eleven year solar cycle could see that little number coming, but lets not get in the way of a good con.
No, it's no longer 'Global Warming'. Especially as the last six years have seen a steady decline to global temperatures. Where was THAT story reported? No, from now on it's going to be called 'Climate Change'.
Well, here is the thing. The climate is constantly changing. Sometimes it goes very, very hot. From 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 saw the Roman Warming period of 800 years; from 600 to 900 A.D. the cold period of the Dark Ages lasting 300 years; from 900 to 1300 was the Medieval warming period lasting 400 years; and 1300 to 1850, the Little Ice Age lasting over half a century.
There's something else. Despite what you hear on TV. THERE IS NOT A, NOR HAS THERE EVER BEEN, A SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT CO2 IS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING. Sorry to shout, but being one and having spoken to many, many scientists on the subject, it drives me ABSOLUTELY LOOPY to keep hearing this phrase on TV. Pushed down our throats.
Comments welcome.
Earlier this year we had a very mild winter, in which ALL (and I mean ALL) news reports and weather reports stated that it was global warming in action. However, since March, it's been one of the mildest and wettest Summers for a number of years. No anybody who can be bothered to look at the eleven year solar cycle could see that little number coming, but lets not get in the way of a good con.
No, it's no longer 'Global Warming'. Especially as the last six years have seen a steady decline to global temperatures. Where was THAT story reported? No, from now on it's going to be called 'Climate Change'.
Well, here is the thing. The climate is constantly changing. Sometimes it goes very, very hot. From 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 saw the Roman Warming period of 800 years; from 600 to 900 A.D. the cold period of the Dark Ages lasting 300 years; from 900 to 1300 was the Medieval warming period lasting 400 years; and 1300 to 1850, the Little Ice Age lasting over half a century.
There's something else. Despite what you hear on TV. THERE IS NOT A, NOR HAS THERE EVER BEEN, A SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT CO2 IS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING. Sorry to shout, but being one and having spoken to many, many scientists on the subject, it drives me ABSOLUTELY LOOPY to keep hearing this phrase on TV. Pushed down our throats.
Comments welcome.