Is Global Warming a Sin?

Is Global Warming a Sin?

On our recent trip to the Dry Tortugas the family had an epiphany. When the sun comes up, the temperature rises. When it sets, the temperature drops. Based on this intriguing data, we have come to the conclusion that it's possible the sun may have an effect on climate change.

Uh, make that "Climate Change" which is the world's latest mass religion and clearly has nothing to do with the sun.

The link is to an Alexander Cockburn article in "The Nation." This heretical piece concludes that the sun has an effect on "Climate Change." How ridiculous. It's been proven beyond any doubt that global warming is 100% caused by mankind. What's wrong with "The Nation"? They have always been so reliably leftist.

We're warmer now because today's world is in the thaw following the recent ice age. Ice ages correlate with changes in the solar heat we receive, all due to predictable changes in the Earth's elliptical orbit round the sun and in the Earth's tilt. As Hertzberg explains, the clinical heat effect of all of these variables was worked out in great detail between 1915 and 1940 by Milutin Milankovitch, a giant of twentieth-century astrophysics. In past post-glacial cycles, as now, the Earth's orbit and tilt give us more and longer summer days between the equinoxes.

Water covers 71 percent of Earth's surface. Compared with the atmosphere, there's 100 times more CO₂ in the oceans, dissolved as carbonate. As the post-glacial thaw progresses the oceans warm up, and some of the dissolved carbon emits into the atmosphere, like fizz from soda. "The greenhouse global warming theory has it ass backwards," Hertzberg concludes. "It is the warming of the Earth that is causing the increase of carbon dioxide and not the reverse." In vivid confirmation of that conclusion, several new papers show that for the last 750,000 years, CO₂ changes have always lagged behind global temperatures by 800 to 2,600 years.

It looks like Poseidon should go hunting for carbon credits. The human carbon footprint is of zero consequence amid these huge forces and volumes, not to mention the role of the giant reactor beneath our feet: the Earth's increasingly hot molten core.

Clearly, Cockburn has a death wish to even think of publishing something so ludicrous.