It is the last day of winter and I
heard someone again say one of the most stupid things. He said, “This
is the warmest winter in the history of the planet.” Now even if I
were willing to accept that this is possible, to make the assertion
is ignorant.
Let's start with the data. I think that
we can agree that the instrument best used for measuring temperature
is the mercury thermometer.. We have other devices we can use today.
But in the past the mercury thermometer has been the accepted
instrument for collecting this data. And it is still used today with
great accuracy. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury
thermometer in the year 1714. If old Danny had begun the process of
scientifically collecting data regarding our planets temperature the
same day he invented the instrument, we would have 298 years worth of
data. Now call me skeptical but given the relative age of the planet,
a 298 year data set seems a might thin. But tropospheric temperature
measurements have only been collected since 1978 by The University of
Alabama in Huntsville funded by NASA. This is an even thinner data
set. I don't care how many letters you have behind your name or how
much money you have taken from Albert Gore, Jr. You will not convince
me that this is good science. It simply is nothing more than
intellectual laziness. But what if in his energy guzzling mansion
Albert Gore, Jr. really has a secret time machine? And what if he has
been secretly going back in time 65 million years and measuring
temperatures.? Nah. I don't think so.
Next let's talk about carbon dioxide.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency recently designated
CO2 as a hazardous material. It has been repeatedly called a “green
house gas”. Well the specific gravity of CO2 gas is 1.5189. It is
called a GHG because it is asserted that CO2 absorbs and radiates
infrared heat. Now I am going back to my military school and civilian
high school science classes here. If the spec. grav. of a gas is
1.5189, would not that gas heat and cool more quickly than the
atmosphere? Isn't that like the first law of thermodynamics? And then
there is this little inconvenience. Carbon Dioxide is our breath
exhaled! I am not the kind of person to make editorial comment about
anyone's breath, not even morning breath. But I absolutely refuse to
refer to your breath or my breath as hazardous waste. That is just
mean. But seriously, I just can't find the science to blame pretty
puffy clouds of water vapor and human breath for a global temperature
change that has not been scientifically measured.
So you ask, “Reverend Father Stephen,
is the climate changing?” I answer this way. Yes there are cycles
to the climate. And I want to address the Astronomical Gravity of
this situation. No seriously I mean Astronomy and Gravity. I have
always believed that my faith is not incompatible with science. And
this is no exception. I can believe in God and the Big Bang Theory.
There has been a spectroscopic “redshift” in the observed
galaxies and quasars. So the universe, including our little corner,
is in motion and expanding. In the last century NASA made a few trips
to our moon. While the astronauts were hanging around up there, they
left a few reflectors. We have been able to bounce laser beams off of
those reflectors. It seems that since we have been able to do that to
measure the distance from the earth to the moon, the moon appears to
moving away from us at a rate of about 1 inch per year. It is widely
thought amongst the “Copernican wing” of the astronomy community
that the moon exerts a stabilizing force on the rotation of the
Earth. The earth's rotational axis was about 23 degrees. As the moon
has moved away, that 23 degree axis has become less stable and will
in time increase and decrease considerably. What effect will this
have on the oceans and the atmosphere (particularly the jet stream)?
Well we are going to have a front row seat for that one.
But wait, there's more! Have you
looked up into the night sky lately? Because if you have it is a real
treat. Last night I was showing my family the night sky before the
weather got foul. We could clearly see Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and the
moon at the same time with the naked eye. But it only happens about
every eight years. I think that those planets have gravitational
fields. I believe that it is likely that the gravitational field of
those planets affect our little earth. If these events and actions
can affect the rotational axis of the earth and tides do they affect
climate? I think so.
So can we be a little sparing about
this “Global Warming” hyperbole. Just wait. The ice age will come
back. Chill.
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