Don't believe the hype: global warming is a myth. You've surely heard some of the glowing praise that Al Gore's filmed slideshow An Inconvenient Truth has been receiving from the media. It seems that the media will never cease in its efforts to brainwash everyone into believing that the planet is heating up, and that mankind (especially Americans) are to blame for it.

I will never understand how people fall for this. What makes people think that we/they have any control over Earth's climate? And, really, what makes them think that the planet is in the process of overheating? Every time winter comes around, especially when we experience record low temperatures on certain days, I wonder how people can go on believing in global warming. I have haunting memories of some Philadelphia winters. In 1994, my area was plagued with a long cold winter of icy roads and heavy snowfall. My area experienced full-blown blizzards in 1996 and in 2003. In the winter of 2004, the temperatures were so cold that I caught a mild case of pneumonia just by taking a walk around my neighborhood. Throughout all of the years that these things have taken place, Al Gore and his ilk have continued to preach about the impending horrors of global warming.

Now, some scientists are claiming that temperatures are higher now than they have been in 2,000 years! They say it's hotter now than it ever has been since the time of Jesus Christ. Here's an article about that:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/22/D8IDK16G0.html

I believe the left is truly going off the deep end with this theory. How in the world can a claim like this be proven? The "proxy" evidence described in the article doesn't prove a thing to me, but the media seems to be reporting this wild theory as if it is a proven fact.

A new National Academy of Sciences report titled "Surface Temperature Reconstructions For The Last 2000 Years" refutes this theory. Here is an article.

Of course, Al Gore is slamming scientists who disagree with his global warming theories. Here is what he said to Charlie Rose last Monday:

"The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.”

"The debate's over"? I think not, Al. Many credible scientists have issues with the "international consensus". Here is an article with quotes by some of them:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/20/134405.shtml?s=et

Here is what famed Oxford professor David Bellamy has to say:

"It has been estimated that the cost of cutting fossil fuel emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol would be [$1.3 trillion]. Little wonder, then, that world leaders are worried. So should we all be. If we signed up to these scaremongers, we could be about to waste a gargantuan amount of money on a problem that doesn't exist – money that could be used in umpteen better ways: Fighting world hunger, providing clean water, developing alternative energy sources, improving our environment, creating jobs. The link between the burning of fossil fuels and global warming is a myth. It is time the world's leaders, their scientific advisers and many environmental pressure groups woke up to the fact."