Baby, it's cold outside...
As "global warmers" take the opportunity of the heat in the summer months to issue dire warnings of rising global temperatures and the devastating effects on earth... so I will take advantage of this winter season and its very cold temperatures to show how irrational "man-made" global warming is...
Warming and cooling trends were part of this earth's climate long before factories, cars, and other man-made sources of carbon dioxide.
Britain is currently in its longest cold spell in nearly 30 years. Air and train service continues to be interrupted because of the amount of ice and snow all over Europe. In France, snow is piling up from Normandy to Marseilles on the Mediterranean shore. Much of Spain is also shivering. "A nature park in the normally temperate Murcia region in the southeast turned on heaters at a pen housing three giraffes..." In Sweden, temperatures dropped to minus 37 degrees F. "That put a strain on the country's energy supplies, as Swedes heated their houses more and imports decline from energy-rich Norway. Norway is facing its lowest temperatures in more than two decades. The mercury dropped Friday to minus 44 degrees F at Roros airport, in central Norway - the coldest temperature measured in mainland Norway since 1987."
"For desperate parents from Britain to Berlin, the biggest challenge hasn't been snow-choked roads but finding a sled. Manufacturers of all types of snow-slipping vehicles... are thrilled at the boom after years of fearing they had become victims of global warming."
Not only is Europe in the grip of one of the coldest winters in recent years... Japan is too! "Very cold air swept through large swaths of areas along the Sea of Japan on Thursday, causing record accumulations of snow and record-low temperatures for December in northern parts of the country, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Local observatories measured 93 and 86 centimeters of snow in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, and Akita, respectively, in the morning for a record accumulation for the month at each location. In Memuro, central Hokkaido, temperatures dipped to as low as minus 25 C, the lowest ever for December for the observatory point."
I'm not even going to mention the current weather in the U.S. and Canada... just step outside. There is a current Arctic front that is affecting most of the continent. I realize it is winter. And it is cold in the winter. Record high temperatures are not the norm. So, everyone should be fair when discussing the climate. Some record high temperatures are recorded around the globe in the summer months... along with some record low temperatures. "Climatologists" just need to be honest. "Man-made global warming" is not real. Fluctuations in temperatures are mostly beyond man's control. Of course, we can't go ravage an area of all of its trees or let pollutants pour into our water sources or waste energy... we all must be "conservationists."
Conservation is the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion. God gave man the blessing of life and the earth with a command in Genesis 1:28-30. "God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.' Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.' And it was so." We all have a responsibility in the care of the earth. Humans were made to live here!
"Weather experts said the bout of cold weather didn't necessarily reflect climate change one way or the other. Robin Thwaytes, the duty forecaster at Britain's weather office, said that while 'it's very unusual for something like this to last as long as it has,' such events do happen every 20 to 30 years." Okay... so why isn't that said about unusually high temperatures?
"Experts say the cold spell doesn't disprove global warming, it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend." Really? Why isn't a hot spell considered a "blip?"
"'It's part of natural variability,' said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. 'With global warming, he said, 'we'll still have record cold temperatures. We'll just have fewer of them.'" Natural variability? Doesn't that work with hot temperatures too? Only you can decide... in my mind, man seems to have very little control over the climate.
