Senator James Inhofe is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He gave a speech on Monday September 25, 2006 on Gobal Warming. He started by talking about how the media had blown everything out of proportion. He noted that since 1895 the media had been trading off between global cooling and warming. He said that they happened during four different time periods. Also, he stated that some of those could have been overlapping. Recently, they were talking about global warming though. Then he started to talk about the "hockey stick". It is a graph made by Michael Mann and his colleagues. He said that the media had been using this as proof of global warming. It showed that over 900 years the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere stayed the same. Then it showed that in the 20th century it shot up apparently because of human activity. After looking at it again, The National Academy of Sciences report confirmed the existence of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. They happened from approximatly 900 AD to 1300 AD, and about 1500 to 1850. The funny thing is that these both happened before anyhuman activity could have done anything.
Senator James Inhofe also pointed out the fact that after the Little Ice Age temperatures started to rise which was way before CO2s could have made a difference. Another fact is that when CO2 emissions started to rise sharply the temperature when down, yes down. Later on in his speech he talked about how Time Magazine wrote an article in April 2006 with the title of, "Be Worried, Be Very Worried". He thinks that people are going to look back and ask why did we spend so much time on this. Senator James Inhofe found that the sun has caused 50% of the warming in the 20th century. From the over all look of things, people just overeacted and look at it from the scientific way, which proves it's not us.
I thought it was a good article. I thought that we caused global warming, but now that I read this I realize it's not. I also think that the media blew it out of proportion and that people just heard it and believed it without finding the facts.
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