Global Warming and the Scam Artists

Tom Sheppard

4/21/2020

Global warming is real. It created the English Channel about 15,000 years ago.

For years now we have been hearing lots about Global Warming.  We hear about it from politicians, scientists, and activists.  The main thrust of the rhetoric is that the world temperature is rising which will melt the glaciers and ice caps and raise sea levels dramatically.

We have known for many decades that the world temperature is increasing.  Way back in the 1970's when I was in Middle School my Earth Science class discussed the recent ending of a "Little Ice Age" (about 250 years from 1300 to 1850 AD) which came on the heels of the "Medieval Warm Period" (a 300 hundred year warm spell from 950 to 1250 AD). The chief symptom of the emergence from the Little Ice Age was the retreat of glaciers in the mountains of the world, such as those in Glacier National Park, not far from where I was born.

What is so different now than it was in the 1970's is that instead of being viewed as a wholly natural occurrence, the global temperature change is being attributed largely to man-made causes. Those who believe in human-caused global warming appear very willing and ready to silence anyone who suggests an alternate view.  This intolerant approach to science is wholly at odds with what is espoused in the scientific method and smacks more of politics or religious zealotry than science.

The geological evidence shows that the earth has a 100,000 year long-weather cycle that changes due to variations in the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.  These cyclical changes are referred to as Milankovitch Cycles, and were first identified back in the 1920's.

The orbit of the Earth around the Sun varies from a circular to mildly elliptical shape.  The elliptical orbit results in longer, colder winters, and shorter, cooler summers.  The net effect is a significant cooling of the temperature and the creation of massive ice sheets which cover large portions of both the land and sea.  An ice age.

In the waters East of the British Isles lies a raised area of seabed known as the Dogger Bank.  Fishermen have pulled up evidences that this area was once dry land.  Geologists say this was much more extensive than just a small land bridge connecting the British Isles to the mainland of Europe.  Instead, that whole area was dry land which was gradually submerged as sea levels rose as much as 300 feet due to the melting of ice at the end of the last ice age. They believe that the English Channel came into existence as little as 8,000 to as much as 15,000 years ago.  That is a pretty dramatic change in geography, driven by a dramatic, but gradual change in the climate which lifted sea levels by as much as 300 feet, up to current levels.

This short video (about 8 minutes) explains part of what happened:  

            https://youtu.be/mzLFZBb-n5U

This much longer video (one of three) about the formation of the British Isles gives even more information on these massive climate changes and how they have shaped the world we know today.  They point out that at one point, what is now Southern England was a tropical world and a savanna at different times.

             https://youtu.be/nvk6DUmTuvE

According to the 100,000 year climate cycle, the last full ice age ended about 11,700 years ago. Simple math suggests that we are nearly 40,000 years away from the next peak in global temperatures.  This means we can expect the polar caps and glaciers to keep melting and the oceans to keep rising until earth reaches its temperature peak in about 40,000 years.  After that time, temperatures will begin to drop for another 50,000 years until the next ice age peaks.

All this dramatic and massive climate change is driven by the orbit of the Earth, not by humanity,.

The next time someone says that "the science is settled" on climate change, you may want to pin them down on exactly what they mean. The science of long-term climate change, driven by nature is certainly very settled. In contrast, the "science" of man-made climate change is anything but settled. In fact, in light of geo-history, I suggest that the notion of man-made climate change is just spitting into the wind.

The belief that we can stop this environmental cycle which has been going on for millions of years, or that we can stop the current trend which has been going on for just over 10,000 years is silly. The global warming alarmists preach that by bankrupting the world and making the poor even poorer (and the rich richer) we can stop a trend that began long before Henry Ford made a car is nothing more or less than a con job designed to siphon off billions (or trillions) of dollars into the pockets of elitists posing as the environmentally conscious.

Many people like to believe that science and scientists are immune to the profit motive.  Such a view is naive and in complete denial of thousands of years of recorded human history showing the nature of humankind.  Scientists, just like anyone else, enjoy creature comforts, security, and prestige.  Their money comes from being able to snag research grants for their work and their universities or institutions.  By creating a panic around global warming, these climatologists stand to reap windfalls of staggering proportions for many decades to come.  In the end, it won't matter if they are wrong, the money will already be spent.

Government research grants are your and my tax dollars.  In short, they are taking money out of your pocket and mine to pay themselves.  The Green New Deal and other extreme political measures and tax plans are nothing more or less than scams designed to turn your and my money into their money.  Wealth transfer is the fancy name for this sort of legalized robbery.  The plans will consolidate power into the hands of a very few, very well compensated government officials and turn the rest of us into their subjects and servants.  Our lives will be lived solely for the good of the state and our own dreams and aspirations will be considered heretical or seditious thinking.

I have no doubt that some who read this article will label me a "climate change denier."  The truth is far less black and white.  I wholly believe in climate change.  I wholly disbelieve in man-made climate change.  Just because mankind can use machines and explosives to make a big pile of rock and dirt doesn't mean I believe they can build a new Mount Everest.  Likewise, although I know that mankind can pollute their environment and make it inhospitable for ourselves, I don't believe all our industrial might can make any measurable or appreciable change in weather cycles which have been at work since long before woolly mammoths ceased to roam the land.

If the global warming fanatics would pause in their attempts to burn all the heretics they might find that someone has a better model that can actually show how much, or how little, we can affect these trends.  My belief is that the changes we can make are only at the margins.  We would be far better off to figure out how we can adapt to a changing world where ocean levels are likely to rise for the next 40,000 years, instead of trying to stop something that is truly bordering on a cosmic event.

When I hear the global warming alarmists, I hear in their voices the same tones I find in the calls of carnival hucksters trying to get me to put my money on a rigged game.  It is the same tone you hear in the voice of the expert confidence artist who swindles you, or your aging parents, out of thousands all to either get rich quick, or to protect you from some non-existent danger.  Anyone who believes what these hucksters are selling about how we can stop it should feel embarrassed that they were ever taken in by such a patently absurd scam. It only goes to show that P.T. Barnum was right. "There's a sucker born every minute."

Tom Sheppard is a business consultant and coach to small business owners and individuals. He is a recognized author with dozens of titles in business and fiction to his credit. One of his endeavors is to help those who want to see their own book in print. He does this through his trademarked Book Whispering Process (TM).

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