by Allan Taylor

Created on: November 18, 2008

Climate change is for real.

What we should do about it has got confused and our focus on the problem is blurred.

Billions of dollars are being wasted in devising ways of stopping climate change which is an impossible fantasy. We are continually being browbeaten by media propaganda to accept what is nothing more than bunkum promoted by politicians worldwide who have gullibly accepted the Greens' "Theory of Cataclysmic Global Warming". Why? Because it is a convenient religious dogma with which to scare the populace into conformance and so to gain and stay in power (1,2).

The famous American journalist H.L. Menchen in 1920's wrote that "The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."

Why climate change is happening should not influence Government policy to lessen the harmful effects it may have on mankind. Nobody knows for sure its cause, so let's not go off at an expensive tangent thinking we do and getting it all wrong! Climate change has its beneficial effects too, which in some cases may out weigh the harmful ones. Let us be thankful we live on a such a dynamic planet as the Earth.

Geologists tell us that over the past one million years there have been at least four Ice Ages during which most of North America, as far as present Chicago and New York, was buried beneath a kilometer or more thickness of ice! Global temperatures then were much lower than today. The ice melted between 15,000 to 10,000 years ago and now some people enjoy a pleasant climate in what may be another "Interglacial Period". There is much evidence to suggest that another Ice Age is imminent, or at least another period of prolonged cooling, (1,2).

The cause of this climate change on a geological time frame is uncertain and subject to much research and speculation. There may be a combination of several causes each producing either a cooling or warming effect, which in aggregate results in either a cooling or warming of the earth's surface.

The radiation from our sun is the ultimate source of energy and warmth on earth. If the energy flux from the sun varies with time then so too will our climate. Also there are many natural happenings on earth that will effect climate, such as periods of intense volcanism or a large meteor impact. The earth's rate of rotation, orbit and inclination of its axis to the sun is known to vary in the past. Changes in cosmic ray flux induced by variation of interplanetary magnetic fields (sun spots) is thought to effect cloud cover and so

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