Thoughts About the Weather

This whole “Global Cooling”, no wait, “Global Warming”, no wait, “Climate Change”, err make that “Man-Made Climate Change”; whatever simply makes no sense to me.


First of all, this topic is very much a religion and having the government attempt to establish it in this country violates the U.S. Constitution as the first Amendment states among other things, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…”

Sometime, I’ll go into some comparison of religions that shows the above whatever you want to call it is a religion. But for now, just consider the logical argument.

What we Know, What we Don’t Know

We know the sun provides warmth to our planet. We also have warmth from the hot core of the planet.

We know the planet was once uninhabitable as a molten fireball containing methane gas and other nasty environmental conditions. So, now that the earth evolved its air to mostly nitrogen and some oxygen, I guess one could say, yes there is Climate Change; a very natural evolving process. This was nicely done my Lord, as the earth evolved to a point that the planet sustains life; from once where life was impossible. What an intelligent design.

The heat that remains from creation mostly in the form of a molten core occasionally escapes the subsurface through various naturally occurring cracks either on the land surface or under the sea. That heat tends to warm to some degree the surrounding water or air, doesn’t it?

We know the planet has a surface with the most prominent feature being water; and that water is a wonderful insulator. It takes much energy to warm and cool water. That it holds a given temperature more so than the rocky surface is testament that it is a very stable element to measure. It also is noted as a solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas (air). Its temperature various around the world, but tends to stay rather stable from a local perspective.

The sun has sun spot activity about every 11 years which tracks well with the observed over time cyclic warming and cooling of air temperatures around the planet.

At any time, the air temperature (very volatile) displays extremes noted at the surface ranging from as high of around 120 degrees to a low of about minus 50 degrees. Its other extremes are vertical. The higher one goes in the atmosphere, the colder it gets.

The air temperature is also affected by the tilt angle of the earth which as it revolves around the sun forms the basis for our observation of the various seasons. The earth spins at about 1,000 miles per hour at the equator. Air travelling over large bodies of water either cools, or warms pending the temperature of the water at that locale. By the way, wind is caused by the difference in temperatures. That accounts for that violent wind on a hot summer day just before a cold front arrives with a storm.

If that isn’t enough, sure there are other sources of heat or cooling caused by other natural or man-made activity. Fires create heat by burning stored energy. It basically transforms existing energy from one state to another (no, not the states of the US), but rather to/from solid, liquid, gas. You know, such a process is the first genuine “energy exchange”.

We also know the sun dances around the equator during the course of a year traveling as far north as the Topic of Cancer and as far south as the Topic of Capricorn. Its cyclic activity is not caused just by the sun’s rays (we call that day time) and lack of sun’s rays (night time), but the angle of those rays (warmer when the slant range is shorter such as near the equator). No wonder the air temperature is so volatile.

So, given that brief short description of some of what we know, with room left to describe what we don’t know; I wonder what the fuss is all about with man-made global whatever we’re going to call it today/next.

I would think that if I were really concerned about global warming or cooling, I’d be apt to measure more so those more stable conditions such as the molten core and water. Land surface temperature seems to be too affected by the molten core, and interaction among water, air, and sun. I’d pay no attention to those air temperatures since they appear to be the most volatile of all.

Worrying about Global Whatever Temperature Name we call it reminds me predicting the future stock market by making daily measurements of only the most volatile stocks without giving sufficient consideration to those more stable long term investments. I think they might call such speculation as “fool’s gold”