Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

I had thought from earlier ’scientific fact’ (late 1970s-90s-ish??) that “global warming” would cause cooler summers and warmer winters. We have had a few ‘not too cold’ winters in recent years (although this late winter 2008 as exceptionally colder than usual) and this summer, -apart from humid as hell, was by average ‘cooler’ overall.

I believe that ‘global warming’ is a fact but I don’t necessarily believe that humans are the MAIN cause (but certainly we need to back-up with the use of petrol-fuels, waste, and diversify our insatiable need for energy into solar/wind/electric, etc.) Sun spot activity for instance, has been higher in the last 70 years than in the previous 8000 years, according to space experts using the best contemporary models of today’s understanding of the sun. While there is no linking this increase of sunspot activity to Global Warming, the lack of proof thereof is not dismissive of possibly being part of the cause either…

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There has been a blunder in the reporting data for Global Warming, alarmists are creating unnecessary worry.

Scare Tactics

I recall a book “The Jupiter Effect” (by J. Gribbin and S. Plagemann) from 1974 that was convincing enough for the times about planetary alignments and the catastrophic events this would bring. The book was taken seriously (for awhile, anyway.) Notably, a earthquake along the San Andreas Fault in the Spring of 1984. These events never occurred. It was later revealed that a closer (presumably stronger) planetary alignment event had also taken place in yr. 1128 and again, without incident.

A follow-up book “The Jupiter Effect Revisited” (in 1984) tried to self-correct itself for the San Andreas Fault miscalculation and mentioned that the ‘effect’ had in fact, taken place in 1980 despite the lack of required and mandated ‘planetary alignment’ and that this was the cause of the volcano eruption of Mount. St. Helen. Few people took this seriously since again, the evidence was lacking.

I seem to recall the movie “The Jupiter Effect” that included something to the effect of Earth being in danger of ‘flip-flopping’ end over end due to the ice-caps being SO THICK and top-heavy it would mess-up the orbital rotation, and this flip-flop would cause a planet-wide “Great Flood”. These Biblical events also failed to occur.