The Rest of the Story on "Global Warming"

Warning: you have to think a minute when you read these numbers.

 

The total surface of the earth is 197,000,000 square miles.

 

The earth is 70% ocean covering 140,000,000 square miles.

 

The earth's land mass covers 57,000,000 square miles.

 

Cities, factories, airports, etc cover about 750,000 square miles, 4 tenths of 1 percent of the earth's surface

 

The world's population is estimated to be 6.8 billion.

 

The state of Texas covers 268,581 square miles. A square mile contains 27,878,400 square feet so Texas covers 7,487,608,550,499 square feet.

 

If you divide the square footage of Texas by the world population you find that every single person in the world can stand on their own 1,101 square foot piece of land in Texas.

 

Mankind occupies less than 4 tenths of 1 percent of the surface of the earth.

 

Considering that the earth's atmosphere extends 50 miles up from the surface, how can anyone with half a brain think that humans can do anything to change the atmosphere much less the earth's climate?

 

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Understanding the ocean's effect on climate took a quantum leap forward in 2003 when the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed, a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their measurements mostly at the ocean's surface.

The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the world's oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, and speed of ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing them to the surface as they take their readings at various depths.

Once on the surface, they transmit their readings to satellites that retransmit them to land-based computers. Thousands of other surface floating buoys also send information.

The Argos buoys have disappointed global warming alarmists in that they have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change. As Dr. Josh Willis noted in an interview with National Public Radio, "there has been a very slight cooling" over the buoy's five years of observation.

Actual observations trump computer models and as we learn more about the Earth we start to realize how puny and irrelevant man's contribution to climate change really is.

While irresponsible environmentalists panic over warming, the Earth cools and goes with the ocean flow.