Global Warming

Global Warming


Is global warming happening and if so is it caused by mankind’s dependence on carbon producing products or is there another totally unrelated reason behind it? Enthusiasts point to pictures of empty seas and blame global warming for the areas of disappearing ice, once the habitat of the now near extinct polar bear. Opponents show pictures of desolate icebound landscapes and claim the Arctic, monitored by US Army sensor buoys show the ice has thickened by at least half a meter since last March last year and is presently on the increase along with the of polar bear population. The enthusiast say the melting ice will increase sea levels by as much as six meters and show mock up pictures of great cities half submerged by hungry seas. Opponents like Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change and the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story and the predictions of enthusiasts are just that; based on computer Climate Models that produce answers dependent on the facts fed into them. Another theory by physicist Henrik Svensmark explains how an interplay of clouds, Sun and cosmic rays carrying sub-atomic particles from exploded stars seem to have more effect on the climate than man-made carbon dioxide.

Being no scientist my opinion is pretty worthless, but according to what I have read the earth is still warming up from the last ice age which is why fish, birds and insects are on the move northwards as they head for the cooler climes they have long been accustomed. Personally, I think the main problems of the future lie in an ever-increasing world population together with a growing shortage of water and food to feed them, though that’s another issue.

But back to Global Warming, for the dogmatically convinced on either side of the argument the only true test of their convictions will be time. For the unresolved differing opinions continue.