The newspapers have also been filled with many accounts of weather extremes that do not appear to support the global warming hypothesis, but rather satisfy the predictions of those claiming a new ice age is about to begin. A small sample:
A cold wave swept northern Europe in late 1995, bringing the coldest readings in a […]

With all the debate about rising average temperatures and their possible link to CO emissions it has been noted that much of the observed warming has been coming from rising minimum temperatures rather than any change in average high temperatures. In fact, in some areas, summer maximum temperatures are declining but winter minimum temperatures are […]

One possible indicator of a warming planet is the finding that forests and grasslands in the Northern Hemisphere are greening a full week earlier in spring than they did in the mid 1970s. This has been determined by very careful monitoring of planetary car bon dioxide levels. The normal spring decline in CO is indicative […]

Over the last few years, the press has been filled with stories purported to “prove” that human intervention with the greenhouse mechanism is producing the global warming that the computer models (which are far from perfect tools) suggest might hap pen. Some are listed below. But it should be remembered that climate varies naturally all […]

The activities of both termites and coal miners result in substantial inputs of methane gas into the atmosphere. Methane is expected to contribute up to 20 percent of any global warming that may occur. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the physical act of mining coal (without having burned it) may contribute up to […]

Contrary to popular belief, the most potent greenhouse agent in the atmosphere is not carbon dioxide, but water vapor. Water vapor, along with clouds, accounts for over 90 percent of the natural greenhouse impact of the Earth’s atmosphere.

The Earth’s atmosphere weighs 5.1 million billion tons. The burning of fossil fuels adds an additional 10 tons of CO per year to the atmosphere—for each person in the developed countries. But how much carbon dioxide gas was in the Earth’s atmosphere before the start of the industrial revolution and the widespread burning of fossil […]

There are five major greenhouse gases: water vapor, carbon dioxide, oxides of nitro gen, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The last four have been significantly increased by human activities.
It’s more than just the rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that have been implicated in any possible global warming due to the greenhouse effect. While CO lev els […]

Some computer models of global warming estimate it is conceivable that the world wide average temperature could rise by up to 9 to 11°F within a century or two. This change is of the same magnitude, but in the opposite direction, as the cooling that, over thousands of years, produced the ice ages. Carbon dioxide […]

The idea of global warming from a runaway greenhouse effect due to the mass burning of fossil fuels is not a new one. It may have been first proposed at the end of the last century by Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist. He estimated that global tem peratures could possibly rise as much as 10°F. […]