Global warming necessary for our planet’s existence

By Вen Li

Global warming and climate change, long touted by environmentalists as looming threats to our planet, are in the national news spotlight once again. But before we gorge ourselves on the bonanza of existing and new material on the subject, we should understand the context of the arguments.

Global warming itself is not necessarily a bad thing for the planet. Increasing the earth’s average temperature reverses ice ages by opposing global cooling, that thing environmentalists of the 1970s said we would be dying from right now. Tweaking coastlines and the amount of water in circulation also promotes changes inland, often reclaiming or expanding habitable land for fauna and flora.

Some casually accept the outright demonization of global warming because it happens to inconvenience certain groups of financially–or politically–wealthy humans. Short-sighted people who build expensive homes on coastal sand-cliffs, for example, or industrial farmers who think the fertility of topsoil is unlimited, will have their plans backfire not because everyone else is heating the planet but because their own rhetoric blinds them to natural changes in the environment.

Climate change is another one of those things that we’re supposed to “fix” as though there was something wrong about our inability to control most aspects of nature despite our best, feeble efforts.

We must understand that the earth is not static. Continuous energy from the sun, radiation from the earth’s core and a whole host of other phenomena are more powerful than men and help shape the earth over days and millennia. The earth exists as a robust system in dynamic equilibrium that has lasted over four billion years. It is silly to think that we have any kind of power to permanently damage such a well-established self-adjusting system that has survived numerous cataclysms only to be reborn.

The earth undergoes periodic changes, some of which we observe every day, and others we can only infer. We commonly see short-term climate change phenomena such as day turning into night, the seasons changing, while long-term changes such as the el nino and la nina ocean temperature cycles, population cycles, shifts in the earth’s axis and ice ages are somewhat harder to detect.

A few centuries of observation is simply an insufficient and unrepresentative sample to predict phenomena that occur over tens or hundreds of thousands of years, yet some scientists purport to make long-term predictions based on that data every day to show man-made climate change while neglecting possible natural cycles.

Despite the several leaps of evidence currently required to go from the hypothesis that man-made greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming to the unsubstantiated conclusions spouted by the leftist media that our actions will be the end of us all, most take for a fact that global warming is a direct cause of human activity. Those with make-work agendas have taken advantage of many peoples’ misunderstanding of the phenomena for their own gain. Failure to question perceived authorities, conventional rhetoric and “information” such as this article will only ease the way for those who hope to gain a shallow victory by appealing to the masses with pseudo science, incomplete information and vague threats of destruction.