My Kitchen Sink Clogged Due To Global Warming

That's about all that's left to blame on global warming. The latest warnings claim that everything from earthquakes to landslides to volcanoes will be the result of global warming.

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.

Looking back to other periods in our planet's history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected. The solid earth also became restless, with an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis. At the rate climate change is accelerating, there is every prospect that we will see a similar response from the planet, heralding not just a warmer future but also a fiery one.

Several times in the past couple of million years the ice left its polar fastnesses
and headed towards the equator, covering much of the world's continents in ice sheets over a kilometre thick, and sucking water from the oceans in order to do so. As a consequence, at times when the ice was most dominant, global sea levels were as much as 130m lower than they are today; sufficient to expose land bridges between the UK and the continent and Alaska and Russia.

Each time the ice retreated, sea levels shot up again, sometimes at rates as high as several metres a century. In the mid 1990s, as part of a study funded by the European Union, we discovered that in the Mediterranean region there was a close correlation between how quickly sea levels went up and down during the last ice age and the level of explosive activity at volcanoes in Italy and Greece.

Curiously these scientists blame global warming for those events, rather than volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomenon causing the increases and decreases in global temperatures along with the other changes that happened contemporaneously. There is a causation problem here. Which came first?

The science here is treading on thin ice. Temperature changes across the entire planet have been observed for only a short period of time directly, courtesy of satellites that can measure the temperatures of the entire planet from space (man first launched satellites in 1957). We have an idea of temperatures for discrete portions of the planet for only slightly longer (into the 1700s). That's still only a minicule fraction of a percent of the age of the planet. We have indirect measurements that can give us an idea of how the planet behaved going back thousands of years, but no one can truthfully state with confidence what caused temperature increases or decreases during that time that can explain ice ages or the end of those periods.

Besides, many of those ice age cycles occurred when man not only didn't have internal combustion engines, but didn't even exist. Man-made global warming had nothing to do with the temperature changes then, and to believe that the current science proves that the ongoing temperature changes are due to man stretches the evidence.

The computer models are quite likely wrong as to what will happen in the past as they've had problems being able to determine what happened in the past. That should be telling.

But, if you believe that you can prove man-made global warming exists, here's your chance to prove it. Steve Milloy is putting up $100,000 to anyone who can conclusively show it exists.

Okay, with that out of the way, let's assume that man is behind the global warming. If that's the case, why is everyone focusing on the US alone, when China is either currently producing more global warming gases than the US currently or will do so next year, and is set to increase its production of global warming gases significantly, even as the US remains stable or slightly declines in its output.

If you were truly serious about global warming, you wouldn't simply ignore the largest emitter of greenhouse gases when you claim a global catastrophe is imminent. Further, I wont ignore the hypocrisy of Al Gore and the rest who fly around the world claiming the planet can't take any more greenhouse gases only to fly around even more but then claim that they've offset their emissions somehow. After all, if this is as dire a situation as you say, stop flying around the planet and stop with the nonsense about carbon trading schemes and just cut your emissions altogether.