Global Warming, huh?

This little rant is going to be one those 'go look it up for yourself and make your own decision little rants, only because I don’t have the patience to cut paste and drag every link to every website and talk show host and reporter that I read and listen to throughout the day. With that said, this whole argument about “global warming” drives me up a wall.

First little tidbit. The average temperature in the month April was a searing 51 degrees. I know what you’re thinking. "So what." Right? Well that was the coldest April in 114 years. Global warming, right? I know all those tornadoes happening in the Midwest lately are a result of global warming too, right? Wrong! Everyone has more or less heard of the whole El Nino, La Nina thing, right? Well El Nino is warm air coming off the Pacific and La Nina is cold air coming off the Pacific. Well folks, we are in a La Nina year and tornadoes are caused by a lot of cold air mixing with warm air, thus the tornadoes, thunderstorms, etc. etc. Global warming or a naturally occurring event? I vote natural.

A couple of weeks ago, a few scientists from the United Nations wrote an article for a nature magazine saying they used a new model to check climate changes in North America and Europe. The jist of the article was that we have to put global warming on hold for the next 10 to 12 years because it’s just going to get colder. For all of those who don’t believe that the Earth is a living, breathing, entity that heats and cools according to it’s position to the sun should refer back to your 8th grade text book. Flip to the section on the solar system where you’ll find out that the Earth doesn’t rotate straight up and down. It is slightly tilted. At this point in time we are in what’s called an interglacial period, which is basically a period of time that lasts between 40,000 to 45,000 years when the earth goes through a warming trend before the next ice age. Thus causing the glaciers to melt along with the polar ice caps. Right now we are in around year 35,000. Which means in 5,000 years we will have an ice age. I’m almost saddened by the fact that I won’t be around to show all the frozen people Al Gore’s movie.