This week in my English class, we had to watch Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, because we’re going to be debating on the issue of global warming.

This got me thinking to myself: Does global warming even exist?

When our winter temperatures can get down to 20 degrees below zero or lower, can we really believe that our planet is heating up to dangerous, ice-cap melting temperatures?

There is no way we can realistically believe that in our lifetime we will see polar bears swimming in the ocean searching for the last remaining chunk of ice.

How likely is it, really, that we will someday see Antarctica, the North polar ice cap, or Greenland melt into the ocean?

Our world runs in cycles, our earth tends to reset itself, because as my junior high school science teacher, and one of the smartest men I’ve ever met, Mr. Blindt used to say, “Mother Nature does not like imbalances.”

Sure, the statistics say the planet is heating up in recent decades, but since the world runs in cycles, how do we know that the pattern won’t simply reverse itself?

With Mother Nature disliking imbalances and all, it just seems natural that the earth’s warming up will reverse itself and cool back down.

Add in the fact that the earth’s distant past includes cycles of warming and cooling, the latter causing ice ages, each played out over millions of years, and this global warming theory all seems like nothing more than a big over reaction by some politicians looking for a theory to scare the public into voting for them.

Yes, that’s right; I just said that global warming was made up. I think that vote-desperate politicians like Al Gore needed something to scare the population. I think they needed something to rally their party’s campaign platform around, something they can fabricate so when they promise to fix it and it doesn’t happen, they can take credit for averting the apocalypse.

You may think that I’m crazy, or that my conspiracy theories are crazy, but you can’t look at the history and nature of our planet in the last few billion years and not see ups and downs.

When the planet was young, the earth was, in theory, full of thick gasses, similar to Venus, except the gasses thinned.

Then came ice ages, so cooling down is possible.

If the atmosphere was too thin and had a hole in the ozone layer, how is it that it is now too thick and is heating up the planet?

Just doesn’t add up, does it?

Brad Kupiec is a freshman journalism major. He can be reached at 581-7942 or

at [email protected].