Imagine It's 2080 and the World Is Warm

Raleigh, NC (TLS). Imagine for a moment that it is the year 2080 and the entire world is enveloped in a warm climate, as predicted by the just-released U.N. report on climate change. The report warns of a possible 3.8 to 8 degree Fahrenheit rise in global temperatures, resulting in a melting of many of the ice shelves across the planet, a rising of sea levels, and a massive disruption of rain cycles, causing severe droughts in some areas and tropical showers and humidity in others.

If these predictions are realized, Greenland could lose all of it ice, becoming a paradise of green meadows instead. Nova Scotia's climate could warm up to the point that wine grapes could be grown there.

The ramifications of this warming have been so hyped up by certain voices in the scientific and governmental realms that most people fear that such a massive climate shift presents a doomsday scenario.

BUT WAIT! Time for a reality check.

Greenland was once such a land that the U.N. demagogues warn about. Yes, it was once very green. Nova Scotia was once so warm that wine grapes WERE grown there. Global temperatures once rose within the range the 'global warming' scientists warn about within the next 70 years. But those days were long-gone LONG before there was any burning of fossil fuels by humans.

Yet here we are. Mankind survived.

During the Middle Ages, between the years 800 and 1300, the earth warmed significantly in what is known in scientific and geological circles as 'The Medieval Warm Period.' During that period of history documents and other data show that Greenland was a warm-weather-lover's paradise and Nova Scotia was a rich, fertile land that produced grapes perfectly suited for wine-making. However, something happened that changed all of this around the year 1300-1350 or so. The earth went into what became known as 'The Little Ice Age,' which resulted in a cooling of temperatures around the globe. This 'Little Ice Age' is well documented in history, such as some of the founding documents of the United States show, which report unusually cold temperatures and heavy blizzards.

The Little Ice Age continued until roughly 1900. However, before the end of this period the earth began to experience a gradual warming of temperatures, resulting in the melting of glaciers and ice caps. The warming started roughly 300 years ago, and by the year 1900 most of the vestiges of the Little Ice Age were gone. Since that time the earth has been in a period of warming, and the phenomenon began long before humans began burning fossil fuels.

Realistically speaking, the human race has much more to lose now than it did then in terms of a gradually warming climate. With population increases, and with individuals flocking to tropical-type resort areas, usually within close proximity to shorelines and riverbanks, any rise in the earth's temperatures will extract a much more devastating effect on the global economy and human activity. We may have to give up our preference for coastal areas. Property values in flood-prone regions that are vulnerable to rising sea levels will plummet.

Thus, the human race most definitely will be forced to make adjustments in terms of habitation, farming, and water conservation. This can be done as private enterprise joins hands with government to come up with an acceptable strategy to deal with these potential problems. The Real Estate market, for example, will probably have to shift its focus away from warm areas near the coastline and place a premium on higher ground.

In short, these problems are much too complicated for governments to address alone. Private enterprise will be essential. In fact, government will most likely be forced to contract with private business to develop solutions to these problems in the fastest, and most efficient and economical way possible.

Thus, the dire warnings of 'the environmentalist movement' and its rabid extremist notions about private enterprise and capitalism are to be totally ignored. Their views are already discredited right from the starting gate. Global warming is cyclical, involving radiation levels from the sun which are always changing, particularly in 1500-year increments, according to the observable, hard science.

Mankind did NOT produce global warming.

The notion that mankind must shun capitalism and free enterprise in order to address climate change is nothing more than sheer demagoguery and political opportunism at its worst.

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