he devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a “severe tornado…(which can result in) motor cars elevated, mobile homes airborne, sheds airborne for considerable seconds….” 2 1851 was not only a lonSnow in July. Sun in September. The climate has gone mad. The world has gone mad? Melting ice caps, extreme weather conditions and freezing temperatures in Russia. Send up the white flag. There has been a collective ‘jumping on the bandwagon’ phenomenon in relation to global warming over the past two or three decades.

Allow me to paint a brief picture. A “scientist” (please note the absence of important pre-fixes such as “well-known”, “respected” and “highly regarded” to this word) states that emissions of greenhouse gases from human sources are causing the climate to warm. The target audience (i.e. the general public) make the following rough associations – a) the scientists say the climate is warming due to human related greenhouse gas emissions, b) yes, it is a bit warmer, we can grow bananas now and c) radical environmentalists are making claims that humans are destroying the future of the earth. And before you can say carbon dioxide, normally reasonably minded people are demonstrating lemming-like qualities of fellowship and are making apocalyptic Nostradamus-esque predictions of doom.

Now call me Einstein, but it just occurred to me that the very nature of our climate is changeable. Haven’t we always experienced the devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a “severe tornado…(which can result in) motor cars elevated, mobile homes airborne, sheds airborne for considerable seconds….” 2 1851 was not only a long

ecades.

Allow me to paint a brief picture. A “scientist” (please note the absence of important pre-fixes such as “well-known”, “respected” and “highly regarded” to this word) states that emissions of greenhouse gases from human sources are causing the climate to warm. The target audience (i.e. the general public) make the following rough associations – a) the scientists say the climate is warming due to human related greenhouse gas emissions, b) yes, it is a bit warmer, we can grow bananas now and c) radical environmentalists are making claims that humans are destroying the future of the earth. And before you can say carbon dioxide, normally reasonably minded people are demonstrating lemming-like qualities of fellowship and are making apocalyptic Nostradamus-esque predictions of doom.

Now call me Einstein, but it just occurred to me that the very nature of our climate is changeable. Haven’t we always experienced the devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a “severe tornado…(which can result in) motor cars elevated, mobile homes airborne, sheds airborne for considerable seconds….” 2 1851 was not only a lon

public) make the following rough associations – a) the scientists say the climate is warming due to human related greenhouse gas emissions, b) yes, it is a bit warmer, we can grow bananas now and c) radical environmentalists are making claims that humans are destroying the future of the earth. And before you can say carbon dioxide, normally reasonably minded people are demonstrating lemming-like qualities of fellowship and are making apocalyptic Nostradamus-esque predictions of doom.

Now call me Einstein, but it just occurred to me that the very nature of our climate is changeable. Haven’t we always experienced the devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a “severe tornado…(which can result in) motor cars elevated, mobile homes airborne, sheds airborne for considerable seconds….” 2 1851 was not only a lon

say carbon dioxide, normally reasonably minded people are demonstrating lemming-like qualities of fellowship and are making apocalyptic Nostradamus-esque predictions of doom.

Now call me Einstein, but it just occurred to me that the very nature of our climate is changeable. Haven’t we always experienced the devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a “severe tornado…(which can result in) motor cars elevated, mobile homes airborne, sheds airborne for considerable seconds….” 2 1851 was not only a lon

he devastation of hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes? In October 1851, Limerick City experienced a T4 Tornado.1 For clarity sake, a T4 tornado is described as a “severe tornado…(which can result in) motor cars elevated, mobile homes airborne, sheds airborne for considerable seconds….” 2 1851 was not only a long time ago, it was a long time before the current global warming debate.

Reasonable doubt is a term familiar to all of us in a courtroom context. Is it possible that, if presented with facts and a convincing argument, one could have a reasonable doubt that global warming has been caused solely by human extravagance? Allow me to present these facts and an argument.

Now for the technical jargon. “… the earth was evidently coming out of a relatively cold period in the 1800’s so that warming in the past century may be part of this natural recovery.” This quote from Dr. John R. Christy, an atmospheric science expert from the University of Alabama in Huntsville3 sets the scene nicely. Is it possible that the earth is currently in a natural warm period due to climate cycles? Climate cycles are extremely complex and are caused for a number of reasons. These cycles include 11 and 206 year cycles due to solar variability, 21,000 year cycles due to a combination of the earth’s tilt and rotation around the sun, 41,000 year cycles due a 1.5% wobble variability in the earth’s rotation and 100,000 year cycles caused by variations by the earth’s elliptical orbit4. In addition to aforementioned cycles, there are a number of other factors