An April 18th article in The Australian newspaper says, “A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.”

What? How can that be? According to Al Gore all the Arctic and Antarctic ice is melting due to man-made global warming and will soon swamp a coastline near you. However, someone with better scientific credentials than Gore, a government major in college, has actually studied the Antarctic ice and found more than before. According to the article “Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head (Dr.) Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.” Yes, you read it right. Ice increases in one sector of East Antarctica are more than the decreases in West Antarctica….so we have MORE ICE in Antarctica NOT LESS. Tell me again how that means the climate is warming.

More Antarctic ice hints at cooling instead of warming. Man-made global warming is a hoax and it’s an expensive one. European countries are already collecting taxes related to gases supposedly related to global warming including bovine flatulence and BBQ’s on the weekend. Tell your government representatives that you are against taxes to defeat global warming. Do it now because the U.S. Congress is set to pass legislation to “combat climate change” and that’s going to mean you pay more for everything for no good reason.

Ok, I still don’t buy the idea of man-made global warming but many people do and those people are some of the biggest hypocrites alive. Many of these “Global Warming is Doomsday” types do things on a reguar basis that, according to their own “science”, contributes to CO2 emissions and global warming. Among the things these hypocrites do is install carpet in their offices, homes and apartments.

I know what you’re thinking…C’mon Ben…Carpet? Yes. Just think about it a minute. There are a few reasons that common household or office carpet contributes to global warming:

1. Modern carpet is made from synthetic fibers usually derived from petroleum (oil). The manufacturing process uses lots of electricity which is usually produced by CO2 producing electric plants.
2. Carpet is very heavy and must be transported great distances from the manufacturer to the distributor’s warehouse by CO2 producing, petroleum burning trucks and trains.
3. Carpet must come from the warehouse to the location it will be installed in by more trucks.
4. Carpet must be regularly cleaned by electric vacuum cleaners and electrically powered steam cleaners. Remember, electricity is produced by generators powered by coal or petroleum.

People don’t need carpet and the global warming crowd needs to recognize this and get carpet banned in all U.S. homes and offices starting with their own.

The media and the environmental zealots would call me a “global warming denier”. That’s not really what I am. If I deny anything about the so called global warming crisis it’s that it’s a man-made phenomenom. Can you really believe that we have enough information to make that determination? That we’ve accounted for Solar activity over the past million years? That we know enough about the orbital dynamics of the Earth? How about the global cooling effects of volcanic activity? The list of stuff we don’t know is quite long. The information that we do have indicates that the Earth goes through occasional periods of warming and cooling and we don’t have all the information about those periods.

Let me state it this way…the Earth has had several periods of extreme cold called “Ice Ages”. Guess what? EVERY ICE AGE ENDED DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING! Imagine that! There was actually global warming before mankind invented cars, factories, large cities, power plants, and all the other stuff that’s supposedly making the planet warmer.