The Truth on Global Warming

The simple, basic facts which contradict the arguments for anthropogenic global warming:"
"Since 1940, Greenland and Iceland have gone on a cooling trend. Glaciers lost mass in the 30's, but since 1970 they have made up more than half of the lost mass."
"1,100 years ago vikings farmed on the shores of Greenland."
"Temperature naturally varies, and in the United States it is currently only a third of 1 degree celsius higher than 120 years ago. The temperature is also on its way back down in what many scientists are calling the next Little Ice Age."
"The main cause for any temperature change is the sun, and as it flares, the earth warms. This actual cause of global warming has been proven by observing heating in the atmosphere of the other planets in the solar system. Some advocates of the theory of anthropogenic global warming claim that the sun has had little extra activity in recent decades, yet there are many reliable reports by leading scientists showing that the sun is indeed more active than it has been for decades. However, at the moment, the sun's activity is dying down, so we can expect colder temperatures in the near future."
"Puntas Arenas, Chile, is the closest city to Antarctica in the world, and the average temperature has gone down 6.65 degrees celsius in the last 120 years, and it is steadily getting colder."
"The Antarctic Peninsula makes up only about 2% of Antarctica, and it has been melting and calving huge icebergs for the past 6,000 years, while the rest of Antarctica has decreased .7 degrees celsius per year for the past decade. Ice shelves are retreating along the coast, but sea ice has increased at an equal pace. Ice core samples from all across the vast continent show that 420000 years ago, long before significant human pollution, the earth was much, much warmer than it is today."
"The winter of 2007 has broken many records, worldwide, as the coldest in long stretches of time. While we should never look at a single winter as evidence, it is helpful to realize that this was not a freak occurence, and for several years before this it has been cooling down to this point, which indicates the beginning of the planet's next cooling trend."
"The majority of evidence that "proves" man-made global warming can be attributed to the Urban Island Effect, not global warming. The Urban Island Effect is the cause for cities being warmer than the surrounding countryside, on accounts of the vast amount of concrete, which is warmed by the sun during the day, and slowly cools overnight, keeping the area warmer than it would otherwise be."
"Areas in Nevada, Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri, South Carolina, Mississippi, Australia, New Zealand, Siberia, France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden have been proven to be significantly colder than they have been for decades."
"The most famous desert in the world, Africa's Sahara Desert, is in retreat, and more land is available for agriculture in that area than ever before."
"Lake Chad, an incredibly useful source of water in Africa, is indeed drying up. However, since it is extremely shallow, and so many people use it, and it has dried up repeatedly throughout history, we can conclude that this has little or nothing to do with temperature."
"Long-term prediction of climate is simply impossible, since humanity knows too little, and the atmosphere is just too complex, to make any prediction with any level of surety."
"In January, Dr. Simon J. Holgate, a scientist with the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory in Liverpool, published a paper in an American Geophysical Union journal that concluded that 1) sea level rose slightly faster in the first half of the last century than the second half and 2) what initially appeared to scientists to be a faster rate of increase in sea level between 1993 and 2003 is actually average when compared to a century's worth of data."
"80-90% of the planet's heat is stored in the oceans, yet in the past five years there has been practically no change in the temperature of the water."
"Water vapor works much, much better at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, and there is much more water vapor in the atmosphere than there is carbon dioxide."
"The extinction rate of the world, which supporters of man-made global warming claims has risen dramatically on accounts of global warming, is in fact impossible to know, since humanity has not discovered and classified thousands, and some predict millions, of species."
"Hurricanes are known to help alleviate any excess heat in the atmosphere, yet, contrary to the theory of global warming, in the past 50 years, the number of massive hurricanes has decreased. From 1900-1909, there were 16 major hurricanes. From 1940-1949, there were 23. And from 1990-1999, there were only 14. And while 2006 had a tragically active hurricane season, 2007 was had an extremely mild season, despite dire predictions of death and destruction."
"Leading experts on hurricanes have repeatedly stated that increased CO2 in the atmosphere would have little to no effect on the occurence or intensity of hurricanes."
"The Kyoto Treaty, which has been celebrated by advocates of global warming as a triumph, was signed by many countries, but not the United States. This is not a crime by the United States; if the U.S. had signed it, the estimated reduction of global warming would be about .4 degrees celsius, if man-made global warming did exist."
"A year of volcanic activity sends more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all combined human activity, ever."
"Judging by El Nino, which is a repeating warming cycle in the atmosphere,global warming would be extremely beneficial to mankind. The longer growing season season during El Nino raises revenue an average of $19 billion dollars, with only $4 billion in losses to insects and disease."
"There have been claims that malaria will spread because of warmer climates, which is completely false. The spread of malaria is based on the wealth and hygiene of an area, not how warm it is."
"These are only a few of the many facts that demolish the arguments in favor of man-made global warming.