“Climate Change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years.”

It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average (for example, greater or fewer extreme whether events). CLIMATE CHANGE may be limited to a specific region, or may occur across the whole EARTH. Our climate has been in constant change for at least 1 million years and very likely throughout the 5 billion-year history of the earth (Who have studied the GEOLOGY may know about this). During the last 200,000 years there have been four ice ages. This would imply that every 50,000 years later there should be one ice age.

The beginning of the current Global Warming era started at the zenith of the last ice age, some 13,000 years ago, which leads us to believe we are a little more than halfway through the earth’s current warming cycle of 25,000 years. We’re not sure when the cycle will end. It could be 10 years ago when the current cooling mini-cycle started. More likely it will be several thousand years hence and it could be 12,000 years from now. About 13,000 years ago, at the maximum extent of the ice in this ice age, there were some 2,000 feet of ice in Kansas (A river in northeastern Kansas; flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River). The ice has been mostly retreating ever since and sea levels have risen about 300 feet.

Sea levels may continue to rise, but cannot rise much more because most of the ice has already melted. Check it out yourself by examining your globe. The maximum extent of the ice was something like 38 degrees North and South latitude. Today all that’s left of the ice caps are Greenland (The largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark) and the Antarctic (The region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters). The current warming trend has not continued uninterrupted. There have been cooling and warming cycles within the overall warming trend. For example, the earth was much warmer 1,000 years ago when the Vikings (Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries) were colonizing Greenland, which at that time was really green. Those colonies lasted some 500 years before climate cooling known as the Little Ice Age, around 1750, global warming has resumed and the ice has again been retreating.

Geoscientists know that the reason for the cooling and warming has to do with cycles in the intensity of the sun and not variation in the amount of carbon dioxide in the greenhouse gases. Current research is focused on whether cycles in sun spot activity are an indication of the variation in the sun’s intensity and, therefore; an indication of the earth’s changing temperatures. Sun spot activity has been very low during the last 10 years, during which time the earth has been cooling, not warming. 98% of all energy comes from the sun. The other 2 percent is from the interior of the earth, i.e. volcanism. The trivial influence of all human activities is not significant by comparison. Can we do anything about climate change?? Thank GOD, no!! If we could, there’s no telling what horrendous unintended consequences might result.

Brock of Tulsa (A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river; once known as the oil capital of the world and still heavily involved in the oil and gas industries) holds a degree in geological engineering and has been studying and practicing geo-engineering for more than 60 years.