With all the hype about global warming generated by corporations, media, and grant seekers I thought that you might like a little straight talk about global warming as climatologists not driven by funding or shackled from truth telling see the issue. This will be enlightening, so read up!

Earth started warming about 18,000 years ago. Much of our land on many continents were buried under glacial ice for more than 100,000 years before that. Our earth’s temperature has risen about 15 degrees since then and sea levels are up 300 feet. Warming and cooling goes on in cycles with 2 complete cycles of cooling and warming occurring in the last 100 years. If our warming continues on patterns similar to previous patterns (and there is no reason to doubt they will not) we are actually just between ice ages and warming will reverse again. We can only hope that this current cold will be temporary!

In recent years the public has been mislead to believe that C2O2 produced by our use of fossil fuel is the cause of the current warming trends. C2O2 currently comprises around 1/10 of one percent of our atmosphere and is not the gas to be watchful of when worrying about the greenhouse effect. In actuality evaporated water with its large molecules is the main source of the greenhouse effect. It may be comforting to realize that these molecules are also reflective, so while they do hold warmth in, they also reflect warming rays. The earth’s wetlands result in more greenhouse effect than all of human sources combined.