Is Global Warming a lot of Hot Air?

There has been a series of reports on scientific evidence that Greenhouse Gas Emmisions are threatening our planet by causing the average temperature around the globe to rise.

Well I have news for those harbingers of "The Chicken Little Syndrome" The temperature of the earth has been going up and down for billions of years and this current warming trend began over 20,000 years ago when the Northern Hemisphere was under a blanket of ice thousands of feet thick.

Melting of that ice layer resulted in an inland sea stretching from the Laurentian Shield all the way to the rocky mountains. The present great lakes, of North America, are the remenants of the melted glaciers that held Canada and the Northern USA in an icy grip for thousands of years.

Global Warming is real -- no argument there -- and I support the movement to reforest Canada and the USA and the reasonable cost of controlling air pollution. But throwing away billions of dollars to curtail industry, in the developed nations, while allowing under developed nations to continue to increase their GHG emissions does not compute -- as a genuine attempt to save the planet.

What does compute is a program to equalize industry costs between developed and under developed nations. A form of international social assistance.

Is there any real prospect of reversing the long term trend of global warming? Not likely because the trend began long before man had any influence on the environement -- and it will continue until the over all factors -- level of solar radiation for example -- goes through another low level period.

On the CBC News Program:- "The National", of Tuesday April 24th 2007, Peter Manbridge aired a new Documentary titled:- "The Global Warming Swindle" which expresses the opinion of another environmental scientist i.e. that the current hysteria over Global Warming is a scam.

I agree.

Check out:- http://loudmouthsays.blogspot.com/2005/04/buying-kyoto-credits-i-dont-get-it.html

Victor Drummond
E-mail vic.drummond@sympatico.ca