Sun Spots, Climate Change and Global Warming

I am not a weather expert or environmentalist. Neither is Al Gore. He and his Harvard college roommate Tommy Lee Jones were not any kind of science majors. Jones majored in English and Gore in Government. They were more than average students and both graduated cum laude. It is my further understanding that Harvard is a decent academic school. I majored in History and was not any where near an honor student, but did OK in several areas. I was a pretty good researcher concerning historical events that interested me

Gore in transferring his expertise from inventing the Internet to solving environmental problems obviously didn’t do the same reading on the subject as I have been doing.

My reading indicates that there has been no global warming in the last ten years. There has been an unusual lack of Sun spot activity since 1999 with indications that we may be at the start of a Little Ice Age similar to the one in the16th, 17th and 18th century. Washington at Valley Forge is an example of that cold period termed the Little Ice Age

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has published convincing work that indicates to me that the activity of mankind plays a very small part in Climate Change. Throughout history there have been periods of rapid and dramatic climate changes. Changes in the rotational axis of the earth, is clearly one area of climate change causation. Co2 has little to do with the earth’s rotational axis.

Oceanic water flow patterns are another natural phenomenon that can cause dramatic climate change in certain areas of the world. Even a cursory reading of the historical data that has been collected concerning global warming and climate change places doubts in a serious readers mind as to the man made causes of these events. Dramatic climate changes took place on earth before man was here.

There has been great progress in America over recent decades in cleaning up our waterways and improving the quality of air. I think that we may have made the greatest strides of any of the industrialized nations. We certainly need to maintain the progress in environmental improvement. The work of Al Gore and others seems designed for personal financial gain and transfer of national wealth as the primary goal of those that recently met in Copenhagen.

There is a growing body of evidence that the political outweighs the environmental, in the current activities of this administration and a significant number of it’s supporters.