by Lynette Alice

Created on: April 20, 2008   Last Updated: February 08, 2009

Is it possible to go one day without hearing about global warming? If the temperature feels a bit too warm for a day of that particular season someone is bound to say it's global warming. If it's too cold someone will even float a theory like it must be a rebound effect of global warming. With so much information out there one would think we know exactly what is going on, but is that really the case?

The best way to begin looking at global warming is to ask if it has ever existed, which is yes. There have been countless times in which the earths climate has risen and likewise fallen, including times long before man walked the planet. Has man ever caused global warming? No, man has never caused an incidence of global warming, in fact about the only thing man can do in relation to global warming is be a statistically and actually insignificant contributor to global warming. With that said only two questions remain which are: Are we in a period of global warming right now, and if so what is the level of mans impact on it?

Most scientists feel and agree the mean global temperature has risen about 1.4 degrees Farenheit. Worst case scenarios show this number to be around 1.8 degrees Farenheit which means an average increase of about 0.8 degrees per generation. Is that really a bad thing if true? Are we too believe our ancestors going back as far as two centuries ago had a stranglehold on the temperatue they set as a baseline were accurate? I tend to believe they were anything but accurate which means the entire debate falls apart on that alone.

As a person that has spent a fair portion of the last twenty years working in the fields of meteorology and atmospheric science I will let you in on a dirty little secret you didn't hear about in Al Gore's film or any other sensationalistic releases concerning global warming. That secret is global warming exists if you want it to. If you are against it, well then it does not exist. Confused yet? If not just read on and you will be, or everything will become abundantly clear. It is for you to decide.

The earth over the past one hundred plus years of recorded meteorological and atmospheric history shows no defintive fully accepted consistent rise in the mean temperature of the earth that merits one iota of concern. But the polar caps are melting! Sure, they have been melting and reforming, disappearing and being replaced by new ones for millions of years. What about the hole in the ozone layer? It widens, it shrinks, but it

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