Global Warming--or not? Some discordant thoughts:
Global Warming has been the latest "enemy of the world" fad to sweep the globe. It has been propagated by some environmentalists, political figures, and accepted by many scientists. Now all schoolchildren are being taught that 'global warming' is the great bugaboo that may destroy our world.
They talk about the melting of the The North Pole. Predictions have been made that the ice glaciers will disappear in the near future, if something is not done to change our global warming. Then they say the heat is due to 'greenhouse gases', such as carbon dioxide, being produced in excess, as we burn 'fossil fuels' (gasoline, gas, oil, coal, etc.) as energy sources.
This is debatable, however. Many scientists believe that the warming is due to periodic natural changes, rather than due to human activity. For instance, the other planets in our solar system also have been shown to be heating up. The present lack of sunspot activity could be related the the production of greater heat throughout the solar system. And that is definitely not man-made.
Just to throw a monkey-wrench into the laboratory, now fallacies in the 'global warming' of earth theory are becoming apparent. Many areas of the world now appear to be unusually cold. Temperature records are being set in both directions. (So the politicians have decided to call it "climate change" instead of global warming. But they still want to blame it on burning of fossil fuels, because that is their political bandwagon.)
Now for some really interesting items:
Back twenty years ago, people weren't talking about global warming. The fear then was that the glaciers in the poles were getting larger and larger. The thought was that their increasing weight could adversely affect the balance/rotation of the earth.
Take a look at history: We have had numerous ice ages in the past. Apparently these did not occur at regularly predictable time intervals. There have been periods of mass extinctions of animal life. Some have definitely been associated with sudden extreme climate change, as shown by the quick-frozen mammoths, with tropical greens in their mouths and stomachs.
How did these 'ice ages' occur? We don't know for sure, but there are various theories. Some say that the poles of the earth have shifted to different areas. Ideas can be very controversial: whether the axis of rotation could change, or whether the earth could shift on its axis seems highly unlikely. Geomagnetic evidence shows that the magnetic poles of the earth have changed in placement many times, however.
Charles Hapgood (as quoted in Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods) proposed the theory that the hard crust of the earth (the lithosphere) could have shifted about the planet, like the loose skin of an orange might separate from the rest of the orange. Albert Einstein proposed in 1953 (Hapgood, p. 468) that the poles build up excess weight in ice, and due to gravity, caused the lithospheric crust of the earth to turn, bringing the ice caps towards the equatorial areas. All the land would have shifted with it. Naturally, there would have been extensive earthquakes, tidal waves, extreme temperature changes, and mass extinctions of animal life. (Even advanced civilizations, if any, would have been destroyed.)
So maybe a little reduction of the ice caps is a good thing...
For a really interesting read, please get:
Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, -- the Evidence of Earth's Lost civilization; Three Rivers Press, New York, New York, 1995. 577 pp.
See also:
Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, The Hidden History of the Human Race; Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 1999. 321 pp.
