America's Icy Chill

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

When referring to how cold America has become, of late, I am not referring to the political environment; although, one could logically recognize the correlation.

During this age of mass political hysteria and governmental positioning regarding the myth of man-made global warming (a.k.a. climate change), it is interesting when nature reminds us that, while there is such thing as Climate Change, the rise and fall in global temperatures are not due to humanity’s technological growth, ant-trails of scurrying fossil-fuel conveyances on the various highways and roadways, or any fluctuation of carbon dioxide in our air, but by natural cycles that existed long before mankind sparked his first campfire in some rocky valley, and then danced around the flickering flames because he realized he had finally figured out how to start a fire.

Temperatures, historically, rise and fall.  Throughout the History of Humanity we have experienced massive periods of above normal hot eras, and we have survived a myriad of ice ages.  The Earth, largely due to sunspot and solar flare activity, though there are sometimes a wide range of other influences (volcanic activity, storms cycles, the Earth’s position in relation to the sun, etc.), gets warmer, and it gets colder.  Science has shown us that these are natural cycles, that the rise and fall of carbon dioxide lags behind temperature changes, and man’s contribution to greenhouse gases (if they affect global temperatures at all) is negligible.