People’s main disagreement over
global warming was never regarding whether the climate changes. No one argues
that. The main contention was over whether humans are the main cause of that
change.
Global warming alarmists claim that
humans are making the earth hotter through their use of fossil fuels such as
coal, oil and natural gas.
Alarmists are taking something that
is observable and repeatable such as the idea that the climate changes
naturally through cycles and turning it into a political issue by “blaming” an
entire sector of the economy for the changing weather. Politicians have
hijacked legitimate environmental stewardship to demonize their political
enemies in the private sector, to eliminate their competition, and to grant the
failed green industry a government-sponsored monopoly, all at the expense of
the taxpayer.
But it’s a little difficult to blame
humanity for the changing climate when apparently, according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), the highest temperatures sustained
by this planet were long ago, before man even existed. These are the same
people who tell us that man is to blame for global warming. But they also argue
that “millions” of years ago, before there was any such thing as mankind or
SUV’s, before there were fossil fuels, the earth’s temperature was at its
hottest, upwards of 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit. From
CNS News:
An Aug.
12, 2014 article posted on climate.gov and titled, “What’s The
Hottest The Earth’s Ever Been,” stated, “Earth’s hottest periods—the Hadean,
the late Neoproterozoic, the PETM—occurred before humans existed.” It added, “Those ancient climates would have been like
nothing our species has ever seen.”
The
article noted that the Arctic Circle was once a tropical hot spot: “Stretching from
about 66-34 million years ago, the Paleocene and Eocene were the first geologic
epochs following the end of the Mesozoic Era. (The Mesozoic—the age of
dinosaurs—was itself an era punctuated by ‘hothouse’ conditions.)
Geologists
and paleontologists think that during much of the Paleocene and early Eocene,
the poles were free of ice caps, and palm trees and crocodiles lived above the
Arctic Circle. The transition between the two epochs around 56 million years
ago was marked by a rapid spike in global temperature.”
In its
earliest days “when [Earth] was still colliding with other rocky debris,” the
temperature was “upward of 3,600 degree Fahrenheit,” the article noted.
During
the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, “the global temperature appears
to have risen by as much as 5-8 degrees” Centigrade (9 to 14 degrees
Fahrenheit), the article stated. (Note: the Paris climate change agreement is
designed to stop Earth’s temperature from rising 2 degrees Fahrenheit, an
increase caused by human activity, according to the U.N.).
My point is not to say that now I
believe that “billions of years ago,” “before man existed,” the earth was
thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. These kinds of evolutionary explanations are
man’s desperate attempts at explaining the world without God. The fairy tale
will only get more and more absurd, and its adherents more and more dogmatic.
My point is to show the
inconsistency. The same people who argue that man is to blame for 1-degree
global warming – something they call “catastrophic” – are the same people who
believe that earth’s hottest period in history had nothing to do with man.
Their own words condemn them.
http://lastresistance.com/15253/noaa-earths-hottest-period-was-before-man-existed/
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