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Here is an article I just came across which seeded my brain into yielding some profound thoughts on the matter:

Why Don’t More Americans Believe Climate Change Is Real?

Since you have been inundated with an uncontrollable influx of Global Warming rhetoric, which succeeded the ink-wasting debacle of The Ozone Hole Forthcoming Calamity, I will toss you something you probably have not thought of.

Let us replace the Global Warming slogan with (not “climate control” which is taking over, due to the fact that the globe is measurably cooling) GLOBAL HEAT EXCHANGE.

Lava of several thousand degrees is pouring into the oceans from volcanoes all over the earth.  Periodically scientists discover new, massive volcanoes far beneath the ocean’s surface.  These volcanoes significant.  They release massive amounts of heat from beneath the earth’s crust into the water, and subsequently into the atmosphere.

This process is a convective and conductive process, much like the household oven, or a home’s air circulation.  Heat is transferring around the earth, but this does not mean that new heat is being generated.  The majority of heat that is being generated comes from the sun.  All other heat on earth is existing, or is being converted via a natural or man-made process.
Man converts fossil fuel into heat.  And the heat created by this process needs to be measured and compared with all of the other natural processes. Volcanic heat being released into the oceans and air needs to be measured just the same.   Imagine lava of several thousand degrees pouring into the ocean.  The natural currents carry that heat to the far reaches of the planet.  Some glaciers will melt as a result.  Some climates will see hotter air as a result.

The first step that needs to be taken to begin to understand global temperatures is that volcanic heat must be measured and compared to other heat sources.  Once measured, my theory is that the volcanic heat released on a daily basis far surpasses the heat that mankind creates over a much longer period of time, perhaps a month, six months, or several years.

With a proper investigation, we most likely will determine that man is not a significant factor in global temperature changes.  When basic sleuthing gives us an answer to this question, then we can focus more on a real, measurable  problem, and that is pollution.  Pollution generated by man, including solid waste and gaseous waste, should be continuously minimized through better manufacturing processes, better individual daily habits, and more recycling. Now that the first world has completed a long cycle of industrial evolution, we can use all of our lessons to lower the toxicity being created in China, India, and the rest of the third world, while at the same time allowing these areas to produce their way into a modern, clean, successful economy.

JBM