If serious climate change was really brought about by only two or three factors like burning fossil fuels or carbon dioxide emissions, we would have died out as a planet thousands of years ago. The hype is blown so out of proportion because if people are panicked about something, they’re more likely to fall behind the person spreading the hype without checking out the proper facts. What are the facts then?

First of all, climate change is the result of hundreds of thousands of individual factors. The oceans, seismic movements like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, minute solar changes, natural gases, and season all play roles in the direction that the global temperature trends. This has been going on for millions of years, long before humans even had a chance to breathe in oxygen and blow out carbon dioxide. Honestly, it’s a little egotistical to even think that we would be at the center of all this, although of course in years past we always believed we were at the center of everything. Galileo was even sentenced to death for his preposterous idea that the sun was at the center of the universe, not the earth.

Second of all, satellite readings, our most accurate source of temperature and weather data, have shown absolutely no warming trends since we began collecting data this way nearly 25 years ago. Data collected from weather balloons provide the exact same figures, with an average variation of .01 degrees Celsius. In fact, the only weather stations that show any warming changes are land based data collection centers near growing urban populations.

This data is hardly objective, and even if it was it provides only a localized reading, not global, and not above the surface. The troposphere, where warming trends would most likely occur that would cause global warming, has not experienced an increase in heat, but has actually cooled several times in the past few decades.

The whole concept of global warming has been completely blown out of proportion. A lot of people still quote Al Gore’s famous shockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” proving just how much misinformation has circulated and taken root in people’s ideals and beliefs. One of the shots in “Truth” was actually taken directly from the disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” and was used to illustrate how the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate.

The United States government spends more money researching global warming than all other countries in the world combined. Where do you think that money’s coming from? The real inconvenient truth is that the government is milking this hype as much as possible and taxpayers are happily trotting after the talking heads, believing every single word they say without trying to find the facts for themselves.