Man-caused global warming (anthropogenic) is an example of a scientific investigation that was hardly begun when it was hijacked by politicians. The movie “The Day After Tomorrow” makes excellent fiction, but it is very poor science. Unfortunately people like Al Gore have used the concepts contained there to frighten people the world over and to get politicians to pass restrictive legislation that is based on very bad science. This has become so bad that even some of the scientists who worked on the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) have come out against their own conclusions.

Thinking people everywhere have grave concerns about what is passing as science today. They want answers, and few are forthcoming. Here are just a few things that are not being seriously considered by the academic/political community. In fact any group of scientists who do take a reasoned stand are laughed off the stage or simply ignored.

First, Is the earth actually warming? We are told that the earth has warmed a little under a degree during the past century. One degree would seem to be well within the limits of temperature measuring accuracy. Much could depend on the accident of placement of the thermometer, or the quality of the measuring device. Data may be influenced by the actual weather stations that may or may not be operating at any particular time in history.

Second, much depends on when you start counting and when you finish. If you plot temperatures on a graph you see that there are short-range changes (cold at night, warm in daytime; cold in winter, warm in summer etc) and there are long-range changes. (At one time our own county was covered with ice. It is obvious that even Alaska must have been a tropical paradise at one time as oil is not produced where there is a lot of ice.)

Third, one has to ask if increased carbon causes increases in temperature, or if increases in temperature cause increases in carbon. Some recent studies in Antarctica appear to demonstrate that the increases in temperature came first, then an increase in carbon.

Fourth, little press is given to the fact that in many locations an increase in average temperature is a benefit, lengthening the growing season, and that an increase in carbon makes plants grow better.

Many scientific studies indicate that there are a lot of sources of a warming climate. Not the least of these appear to be the changes in energy coming from the sun. Other changes also are a consideration, such as eruption of volcanoes etc. Some scientists believe that man’s part in global warming is minimal and that atmospheric water vapor is a greater cause of temperature change

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