All that snow proves global warming? (Dec 23)
By Chuck Doud
The Madera Tribune
It has been snowing in Las Vegas, which is quite unusual. The 7.6-inch total is more than has been recorded in the 70 years weather records have been kept there.
Las Vegas isn’t the only city to get unusual snow. Even Malibu was dusted with some of the white, cold stuff in the most recent Pacific storm.
An Associated Press story last week said these and other cold-weather events are not evidence of a cooling trend. In fact, the story said, they actually illustrate how fast the world is warming due to human activities churning out greenhouse gases.
Hmmm? I agree that one spate of unusually cold weather does not bode a trend toward global cooling. But how does it prove the theory of global warming?
The average temperature of the earth, as measured from satellite-gathered information over the past 10 years, has actually cooled slightly, and is about what it was in 1980. Does that, too, mean global warming is occurring even faster than anybody expected?
The sea level isn’t rising either, at least not at the rapid rate global-warming theorists have predicted. Even though arctic ice has been melting fast lately, sea levels have stayed much the same. Is that, too, proof that global warming is proceeding without letup.
Although geologists have ways of estimating what temperatures might have been in the distant past, their estimates are just that. One thing they seem to know for sure, however, is that for a good part of its history, the earth was covered in ice. They also know that at times it has been much warmer than it is now.
In recorded history, we know of the Little Ice Age and of temperate periods warmer than now between glaciations. We also know glaciations happen fast, geologically like the snap of a finger.
But, of course, that, too, proves global warming theory.
