Global Warming

Global Warming trends have been on the rise for over 150 years now. Science has proven this irrefutably. Some scientists have even gone as far as to use this information to 'prove' that humans are responsible for this rise of .5 degrees C in the last 150 years. Some so-called-scientists have also gone to 'prove' that if this trend does not stop then normal life on Earth will cease to exist: as oceans rise, storm intensities increase, deserts diminish, agricultural land moves North, precipitation increases, and polar ice sheets melt. Now don't get me wrong, but these are all possible consequences of global warming, but I ask you now, why does no one speak of the alternative... global cooling.

Global Cooling is a natural process that Earth uses to...well... cool itself. Think, every hurricane you hear of, every Volcano you speak of, and every weather phenomenon you think of is all connected with the Earth's innate ability to cool itself. It is as simple as ABC, the Earth must cool itself, or the planet would cease to exist. Ice Ages of the past are proof of this concept. After every major heating event (the last being ''The Midievil Heating Trend" and the largest one prior to that "The Mesozoic Heating Trend"), earth's warm climate has always been followed by an Ice Age, a cooling trend, of sorts (the most recent being "The Little Ice Age" and the largest one prior to that, which is still active, being " The Mesozoic Cooling Trend"). These Ice Ages have ranged in drops of Global Temperatures from anywhere between .5 C and 20 C degrees (and we complain about a .5 C increase globally). What in the world would a drop of 20 C degrees do to humanity...

If the Mean Global Temperatures were to drop 20 C degrees within the next 10-20 years (assuming we are still in the most recent Ice Age, in a period called "Interglacial", which proposes a drop of 20 C degrees as very real possibility), then what could we has a human family expect? We could safely assume that the polar ice sheets would expand, glaciation would once again be on the rise, forcing agricultural land South, deserts would increase in size, precipitation would slow, storms would be less intense, and the human family would be forced to the equator to live....

HOLD IT! The Equator? How in the heck are we going to put 7 Billion people on the Equator? Where is the landmass? Honestly, if we already have problems feeding 7 Billion, then how in the world are we going to support 7 Billion on no land and no food (agriculture has nowhere to move South, only North, remember)?

I suppose the topic of this blog was to show that global warming seems playful to the harsh reality of global cooling. Humanity as we know it cannot survive a cooling trend, but can easily adapt to a warming trend. It is about time we did something about the increasing global temperatures, but we also need to realize that as a human family we are blessed, we have never been forced to live through a fully fledged Ice Age.

Running Demon