What causes Earth’s weather? It is not the ocean currents and not CO2 – it is the sun.
Don’t take my word for it, though. Google “geologic climate change” and you will find that it comes in regular cycles over millions of years.
This entire discussion became a political football following Al Gore’s inaccurate depiction of climate change. The Earth has not warmed up over the last five years, as presented, but has instead cooled because the sun is entering a Grand Solar Minimum (i.e., almost zero sunspot activity).
The details are clearly written in the rock core samples taken from the mid-Atlantic trench. These cores along with ice cores taken from the Antarctic clearly show not only geo-magnetic pole shifts but also periods when the CO2 levels and global temperatures were higher than today – and it is all cyclic.
We are actually in a period of global cooling due to the inactivity of the sun and are on the verge of the next mini-ice age, which may last up to 50 years or more.
What does this mean for the peculiar weather patterns we are seeing in recent years?
As the geomagnetic North and South poles reverse, the bulging oceans around the equator will disperse. All coastal cities around the world below approximately 400-foot elevation will be flooded and it will not be due to CO2 and there is nothing that man can do about it – natural cycles.
Gary L. Boyd
Durango
