The New Ice Age

The hapless John Kerry, all coached up by the anti-capitalists on his message, is in Indonesia sounding the alarm about global warming, er, I mean climate change.  Never mind that Indonesia, of all places, is dominated by active volcanoes that are formed due to the stress caused by interaction between the Eurasian and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, and that these volcanoes spew ton upon ton of vaporized matter into the atmosphere.   And never mind that weather cycles on our fair planet correspond rather closely with solar activity, which is entering an unusual phase that has produced a very quiet period of sunspots.  No, according to the environmentalist whackos, climate change - a total misnomer on it's face - is caused by human activity.  The fact is there is no man-made global warming, and even if the Earth was warming, it isn't caused by human activity, and certainly couldn't be abated by simply assessing a "carbon tax" on industrial nations . . . well, other than China and India, the planet's biggest polluters.

Nope, global warming isn't taking place at all.  Whatever anomalies may be occurring in Earth's weather patterns are due to predictable and reoccurring influences of the sun.  The sun emits radiation at varying levels throughout its 11 year cycle, and the jet streams react to the change in charged particles entering the atmosphere, affecting how they circulate in their usual patterns.  Further, there's such a thing as space weather, which affects the Earth's atmosphere, and subsequently, Earth's climate.  Add to that the affect of both magnetic and electrical fields emanating from the sun and encompassing Earth, and the complexity - and wonder -  of our weather is obvious.   Science is just beginning to understand this affect, because we lose billions of dollars in satellites every year due to a variety of these space weather factors.

Now let's talk about "climate change."  What we are witnessing in recent weather extremes is not a change in climate as it is a cycling of weather patterns.  We didn't have the scientific sophistication hundreds and thousands of years ago to sufficiently monitor weather patterns on a global scale, so we're making some strong assumptions based solely on ice core and geological layering analysis. And this study essentially limits itself to the Northern Hemisphere.  But the weather has obviously morphed from a global tropical climate in the Jurassic era, to the Little Ice Age that covered the Northern hemisphere, and human activity is unlikely the cause.

The National Center for Policy Analysis, in an article published in August 2003, comes to this conclsuion:
"The scientific evidence, including the two most recent studies of the climate for the past 1,000 years, strongly indicates that Northern Hemisphere temperatures have been both as warm as and substantially cooler than the present, absent any possible human influence. Such evidence should not be dismissed or manipulated to support predetermined conclusions, as the IPCC's Third Assessment Report does."

So John Kerry and the other alarmists have a hidden agenda in their climate change claims, and it more concerns wealth distribution than it does correcting weather patterns.