[BaseballMan]

Global warming is just as much natural as man-made. There is a steady source of media beating to the drum that man has caused all global warming. Al Gore especially gets it going in, The InConvenient Truth.

There are still outlandish statements being made: “A well-known environmental spokesperson warns that future sea-level rise will drown much of creation.” It is reported that one woman even aborted her baby to reduce her "carbon footprint".

To examine closer, we can look at natural solar irradiance, el nino, and volcanic eruptions that spread sulfur aerosols. We know El Nino warmed the Pacific waters near the equator and is responsible for the unusually warm year of 1998. Sulfur aerosols actually help in cooling the earth as they reflect sunlight back into space, and have been observed to cool the earth 1 degree Fahrenheit.

According to many scientists, TSI or total solar irradiance, is the most significant and long-lasting process however. It has been taught in the college level science courses that sunlight is never changing, however since the invention of satellites that measure solar radiation, we now know better. It changes in small amounts due to sunspots (dark, cool spots) and faculae (bright, hot spots). The effect of these is when there are more sunspots the faculae more than make up for the cooler spots and thus more radiation is released. These sunspots run in cycles, the 11-year cycle, the 22-year cycle, and the more chaotic cycle that runs several hundred years. In effect, this could cause a 1 or 2 degree variation according to the amount of sunspots at a given time.

What this means is that manmade global warming has attributed and the sun has attributed. Man's contribution is small and shouldn't be panicked over. There is a good chance that man can do nothing or only very little to change the manmade portion, even if he spent what alarmist suggest to “fight” global warming (although we should always have been and should continue to be good stewards of the resources God has provided us). Spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year to “fight” global warming just doesn’t make sense, and is more likely to ruin the economies of first-world nations than make any significant impact.

I believe that if we put our faith in the God of the Bible and trust His words as being true, then we need not worry. He promised, by the rainbow, that He would never again destroy the earth with water. He has promised He will take care of all those who love Him and seek Him. God has given us dominion over the earth and we should take better care of it, but the most important thing is that we believe and trust in Him.