Global warming has literally become a global religion with Al Gore rising to the status of a new "savior" to help cleanse the world of its CO2 sins. The reality is that Gore is the biggest con artist of the century, enabled by a politically biased and uncritical media promoting this pseudoscience (Gore owns a major carbon offset company). Mandatory school viewings of Gore’s documentary have manipulated our youth into fearing that the Earth is going to burn up in a massive ball of fire.

So how did Gore become our "savior?" Well, if you present a catastrophic problem to the world, that problem must be fixed. Gore’s message of "cataclysmic proportion" and "moral obligation" has been quite successful in stirring up hysteria to an already "dumbed down" audience.

Why have I not bought into global warming? Simple: because I have researched it over the past two years and have found overwhelming data that shows man produces only three billion tons of CO2, compared to the 39,000 billion tons Advertisement

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Study for yourself activity from the sun and the correlating temperatures on Earth. Higher activity from sunspots resulted in the "medieval warm period," a warming period that was followed by the "little Ice Age" in which we had far less sunspot activity.

Scientific data shows us plenty of times when CO2 levels were much higher than today and Earth was much cooler. Brilliant research by Svensmark in Copenhagen discovered that cosmic particles from the sun enter our atmosphere, collide with nitrogen molecules and kick off ions that form the nuclei for water vapor to condense and form clouds, which cool the planet. When fewer particles enter, fewer clouds form, allowing Earth to heat up.

Claiming that manmade CO2 is the cause of global warming is ridiculous, trying to control it is laughable, but slowing down economic developments in parts of the world is criminal. Can you say "carbon tax?"

Chris Fuller