Global Warming Theory
Essay title: Global Warming Theory
In recent years, advocates of the global warming theory have convinced many Americans that virtually any weather-related calamity is evidence that human-induced global warming is underway.
One has only to look at the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the United Nations body tasked with coordinating a world response to the threat of global warming – to understand why global warming theory advocates have been so successful. Among the many gems in the report is this one: “Warmer temperatures will lead to prospects for more severe droughts and/or floods in some places and less severe droughts and/or floods in others.”
The University of Virginias Dr. Patrick Michaels has taken the time to translate this sentence for us. It means that global warming will be characterized by “more intense wet periods, more intense dry periods, more intense wet and dry periods, less intense wet periods, less intense dry periods, and less intense wet and dry periods.” i Precisely how this is different than a world without human-enhanced global warming is unclear. From year to year, some areas of the world have always experienced more severe droughts and floods than others. Likewise, some areas of the world have always experienced less severe droughts and floods than others. With or without global warming, this process will continue in the future.
But because the symptoms of global warming as identified