Climate Change - the other side of the argument

11th February 07 - Could they all be wrong on Climate Change?

Is Climate Change Inevitable?

To listen to the vast majority of politicians and scientists over the last few weeks following the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conferences and various research papers on the matter it would be perfectly acceptable to believe that Climate Change is now inevitable and that we are totally to blame.
 
In fact the experts are so convinced that they are prepared to state that Climate Change is inevitable unless we change our ways, well almost! They are prepared to say that it is probably about 90% certain that Climate Change is inevitable. Isn't that like saying I think I'm a little bit pregnant?
 
True there are numerous pointers towards a global warming many of which make the headlines, such as crop losses to unusual frosts or migrating birds arriving early, and plants blooming when they should be asleep.
 
The trouble is that there are still those scientists, many of whom have been studying the same phenomena who have a different slant on the subject and believe that there are just as many pointers to Global Warming being a natural event rather than one which mankind has made on his own.
 
They argue that much of the press stories are concentrated on the warming, or change of climate in the northern hemisphere and the events that surround this phenomenon. What they don't tell us about is the changes to the contrary in the southern hemisphere.
 
For example, as I understand it, in east Antarctica it has been getting colder steadily over the last fifty years and while ice in the northern oceans is reducing, in the southern ocean it is growing. The main argument in the other camp is that the Sun and its heightened activity over the last hundred years or so is what is driving global warming more than mans' production of greenhouse gasses.
 
Opinion here appears to suggest that the sun is likely to be coming to the end of that heightened activity and will be slipping back as it did when the last ice age was formed some 300 years ago.
 
Those opposing climate change, and man's contribution as a major cause would argue that climate history and archaeology collected and collated by the scientific community provide extremely strong support to their theory and the current trend of warming is the latest outcome of a long line of events in solar activity.
 
To those of us who simply try the best we can to earn a crust and provide for our families it all seems a little confusing to say the least. Leaving me to believe that : -

If you are not totally confused by the current argument surrounding Global Warming and its causes – then you are not properly informed!

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