When you peel back the onion, the boogieman of “global warming” is nothing more than a happy face. Actually, accurate temperature measurements from balloons, and satellites show planet earth has cooled significantly in the last three years, and enough to slowly chip away at the claimed warming, which occurred over the past 100 years.

The facts are, yes, planet earth is warming, but only by one degree Fahrenheit (half of one degree Celsius) over the past 100 years. Since the “Little Ice Age” 250 years ago, the global average temperatures have increased by about one degree per century.

High concentrations of man-made carbon dioxide (C02) in the atmosphere have increased over the past 250 years. Scientist claim the increase is the cause of global warming and comes from the burning of fossil fuels.

The Oregon Petition, a petition of 18,000 signatures from scientist around the world says there is no evidence for “man-made” global warming. Regardless, the increased C02 concentrations in the atmosphere over the past 250 years has gone from 280 parts per million in 1750 to about 380 parts per million today, which is a mere trace. Without C02 in the atmosphere, planet earth would be covered with ice.

There is no argument in my opinion, the consensus among the scientific community and mainstream media has intentionally misled the public by promoting a threat to mankind that in fact does not exist. Our children are being terrorized into believing their world, as they know it is soon coming to an end.

In reality, the use of fossil fuels will be with us for decades to come. The Energy Information Agency (EIA) forecast shows fossil fuels will supply about 85% of the world’s energy demand through 2030, which is approximately the same percentage as today. Whatever the alternative fuel of the future is going to be, it’s a long way from happening.

There is a lot of talk about wind and solar power as alternatives to fossil fuels. I like what Keith O. Rattie, CEO of Questar Corporation said in discussing wind and solar power as alternative energy sources, “A more honest description would be ‘supplements’. Taken together, wind and solar power today account for just one-sixth of 1% of America’s annual energy consumption per day. Let me repeat that statistic, one-sixth of one percent–.0016.” President Obama plans to double that in the next decade and spending hundred of millions in taxpayer dollars to do it…and accomplish what.

The footprint for wind energy is huge. To build a wind farm capable of generating the same electricity as a natural gas fired 1000 MW power plant would require 500 giant windmills occupying 40,000 acres of land. To put that in perspective, 40,000 acres covers 60 square miles. To build a 1000 MW natural gas plant would require approximately 10-15 acres. A solar electric 1,000 MW power plant is somewhat better, only requiring 20,000 acres.

Keith O. Rattie said it better than I, in the closing of his speech at Utah Valley University three weeks ago; “Let me close by returning to the lessons my generation learned from the 1970s energy crisis (the oil embargo). We learned that energy choices favored by politicians but not confirmed by markets are destined to fail.”