| all of the fervor these days about the dangers of | | | | the buzzword is generally global warming. They cite |
| global warming many people are concerned about the | | | | the increase in certain gases like CO2 which are |
| fate of Antarctica. The fears are that the ice that | | | | purportedly on the rise do to the millions of different |
| makes up the continent is melting faster than normal | | | | engines that burn fossil fuels across the world. |
| and not freezing back as it usually does with a very | | | | Supposedly this changes the qualities of the |
| even ebb and flow. The concerns are that this will | | | | atmosphere that hold in the energy from the sun much |
| eventually raise the sea level enough to put major | | | | like a green house does. What people don’t |
| cities and land masses under water and leave millions | | | | realize is that these are all theories to explain trends in |
| of people homeless and/or even dead. | | | | the environment that no one has any clue about. We |
| So who are making these claims? Well there are | | | | know that Antarctica melts in places and at certain |
| many scientists that have been looking at the | | | | times and since we have been measuring these things |
| earth’s climates and weather systems for a | | | | it appears that the land mass has gotten |
| long time and trying to make sense of them. The | | | | smaller—but this is very flawed thinking. |
| earliest reason for doing this was not to measure the | | | | You see we have only been able to make specialized |
| affect of the greenhouse gases that are magnifying | | | | measurements like this for several decades which |
| the suns intensity and causing the heat to stay within it. | | | | may seem like a long enough time to make good |
| They originally wanted to learn about the earth so that | | | | guesses about the earth which is thousands of years |
| they could by recognizing signs be could warn of | | | | old (some even say billions). You just can’t |
| natural disasters like earth quakes and hurricanes and | | | | make definitive statements about trends that may just |
| tsunamis. Since they have kept data to look for these | | | | be natural cycles that are 500 years in length. Even |
| signs they have noticed disturbing trends in things like | | | | 100 year or 50 year cycles would not have been fully |
| the average temperature and the increasing sea level | | | | measured yet. So we must cool our jets and take |
| and other things like the sized of the ice cap over | | | | ourselves so seriously. We know a lot less about the |
| Antarctica and they seem to only be going in one | | | | melting Antarctica and many other things that seem to |
| direction which spells trouble. | | | | be slowly headed toward disaster than we think. |
| Then they start looking for why this is happening, and | | | | |