In 2003, a team from Harvard University became an unlikely resource for a recent study of 240 other scientific studies that concludes that our temperatures today are not the hottest the earth has experienced, and that we are not experiencing the most extreme weather in earth’s history.

Official temperature records recently released from the Climate Research Unit at England’s University of East Anglia show that from 1998 to 2005 the earth’s temperatures did not increase, and even decreased very slightly.

In 1998, the University of East Anglia published research that stated that the earth in the 90’s had experienced the highest temperatures in the past 1,000 years.  The study done by the Harvard team and their recent temperature records contradicts that research.

Harvard’s team reviewed studies that included sources such as tree rings and ice cores.  According to them, the 9th through 14th centuries, the Medieval Warm Period, were much warmer than today.  After that period, the earth experienced the Little Ice Age, during which the earth cooled significantly.  The earth has still not warmed up to the temperatures that occurred during the Medieval Warm Period.

The Telegraph, a newspaper in England, conducted an interview several years ago with Dr. Phillip Stott, a professor of bio-geography at the University of England.  Stott said, “During the Medieval Warm Period, the world was warmer even than today, and history shows that it was a wonderful period of plenty for everyone”.

When the Little Ice Age began around the year 1300, things changed.  Stott said “When the temperatures started to drop, harvests failed and England’s vine industry died.  It makes one wonder why there is so much fear of warmth.”

Stott said, “What has been forgotten in all the discussion about global warming is a proper sense of history.”

The proponents of the concept that mankind is causing global warming have ignored the 2003 study, claiming that tree ring studies can’t be used as evidence, but they also continue to ignore both history and the facts regarding global climate changes.

For example, all of the cars, homes and factories in the United States produce about 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide in one year.  When Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted, it spewed about 30 million tons into the atmosphere with no long-term affects. 

Our oceans place about 90 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, and decaying organic matter places another 90 billion tons each year. Not only has this been going on since creation, scientists believe that the earth produced far more carbon dioxide in the distant past than we do now.

The earth goes through natural periods of warming and cooling.  The most recent ice age was only 400 years ago, but one of the most recent warm periods was in the 1940s.  The most recent cooling period was in the 1960s and 70s, when scientists were concerned that we might be entering another small ice age, but in the 80s things began warming up.

Since around 1750, records of the earth’s temperature and solar temperature have been kept.  When the temperatures of each are plotted on a graph, they indicate that the earth’s temperatures rise and fall at similar rates and patterns as the sun’s temperatures.

The real clue to the fallacy of global warming can be found in the Kyoto protocol, which gives pollution “credits” to each country.  Industrialized nations get a few credits, but each of the developing nations get far more credits.  Since the developing nations do not have a polluting infrastructure, they don’t need their credits and are able to sell them to nations who need them.  It is a wealth redistribution program, one which President Bush wisely chose not to sign.

Ironically, high levels of carbon dioxide seem to be having a positive effect on the earth.  For example, the number of trees has increased by 30 percent since 1950, and there is evidence that the higher concentrations of carbon dioxide are helping the rain forests to recover from bad logging practices.

God made this earth for the enjoyment of mankind, and He designed it to keep itself in balance with man’s activities.  It would be very difficult, if not impossible, for us to permanently harm the earth.

Of course, this is not an excuse to unnecessarily pollute.  We all want and need clean air and clean water, so we should manage our activities in accordance with our available technology and means, but let’s not fall for bad science that has been created solely for political reasons.  Source

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