Believe in Global Warming in Summer, Global Cooling in Winter
The rapid advances of geology in the nineteenth century reminded us that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, making recorded history a recent blip in the scheme of things. Human civilization was made possible by the global warming that melted the glaciers in 10,000 BC.
Scientists today, however, have no mud on their boots, as did men like Charles Lyell and James Hutton and Charles Darwin, who studied nature in the field with an open mind and thanks to an obsession with self-education.
Scientists today seem less educated and independent than their peers just decades ago. Universities now trade on the good name that higher education once had, just as many famous companies now market cheaper, less durable products to increase cash flow. Rivaling the media and marketing, colleges have become a political tool for engineering society toward a liberal utopia.
The emphasis on global warming promises to increase the fortunes of faculty. They loudly tout the problem, then offer themselves as the solution, coming up with endless taxpayer-funded corrective schemes. The same approach has done well in the social sciences. “Get behind the global warming agenda and you will be personally rewarded,” our political world seems to say.
Television news is now full of violent weather wherever it can be found, as if to reinforce the idea that storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, floods, and fires are positive proof of global warming upsetting the historical norm. Of course, any problem or idea can be magnified by the media by cherry-picking occurrences from around the world.
Since newspapers in smaller cities now have the Associated Press as the source of most articles, it is understandable that other explanations for catastrophes in places like Southern California won’t be considered. Meanwhile, most people would be better off believing in global warming in the summer, then global cooling in the winter.
Well, there are a couple of things that have always “bugged” me. Thousands of years ago, the northern part of our country was covered by glaciers and they melted, leaving some pretty nice lakes. However, I don’t think there were Hummers, SUV’s or fossil fuels being used back then – – – so what caused the warming back then? I’m not saying the earth is not getting warmer, I’m saying it is not man made. The earth goes through cycles. The second thing is from my understanding of science (it’s been awhile) is that as the sun enters the middle of its life, it starts to shrink a bit causing it to heat up, thereby throwing off more energy to the earth. There isn’t much mankind can do about that.
Brad Ford writes:
>”The rapid advances of geology in the nineteenth century reminded us that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old …”
The National Academy of Sciences didn’t even adopt the radiometric timescale until well into the twentieth century, and that timescale depends on the scientifically unsound assumption that radioactive decay rates have always been as low as they are today.
>”Human civilization was made possible by the global warming that melted the glaciers in 10,000 BC.”
Human civilization continued through the peak of the ice age, just not at the higher latitudes, and many scientists believe the ice age ended much more recently, around 2,000 BC.
This spring I wrote a couple of letters to the editor in which I attempted to provide a Christian perspective on the age of the earth:
http://www.truedakotan.com/opinion/letterbox-science-includes-recognizing-assumptions/article_c211de08-0ba7-11e6-9f62-f74e57bae3ee.html
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/opinion/letters/4032885-letter-all-sound-science-compatible-christianity
Thanks for your willingness to publish opposing views.