Global Hysteria

Us humans, we have a tendency to dramatise everything. A slight change in temperature, and the world is coming to an end.
Only we call that Global Warming nowadays. Its a new key word that sells newspapers and everyone can understand.

If you watch the weather report, its always the hottest, coldest, windiest or somethingest day in reported history. But what exactly does that mean? The earliest weather report goes back to the late 18th century. Its not exactly a representative time period to analise the planet.

When I talk to my grandmother, she tells me about her childhood, and there are always phrases like:
'It was an unseasonably hot (cold, rainy etc.) day', In her childhood, seasons obviously weren't identical every year, like they arent today. Thats normal. Its called nature.
400 years ago, they had summers, where it rained incessantly for weeks. Back then, that was not due to Global warming, it was God being angry with his people.

I used to believe in scientific weather reports on the media. When I was about 12 years old, in the mid 80s, we had a very rainy summer. The papers were full of reports about 'sun spots' causing the incessant rain, which we would have to expect for the next 10 years. As if nature was making fun of us humble humans trying to find an explanation for everything, the next summer was incredibly dry and hot (quite unusual for a German summer). By then we had forgotten about the sun spots. Global warming became the new thing. We got predictions of people in the beginning of the new Millenium (ca. 20 years from then) living on a desert planet totally wrapped up to protect themselves from the deathly sun rays.

The thing I cant quite understand is: We talk about polar ice caps melting and flooding the continents. Try an experiment. Fill up a glass with water and put a couple of ice cubes in it. Then mark the water level. Wait until the ice has melted and measure the water level again. Funnily enough it hasnt changed! Frozen water has a different density than liquid water. It expands, when its frozen. So, how does that work for the melting ice poles? They float on the water like in my glass example, half under water, half above the water. When they melt, the water level doesnt change.
Now you will argue, that its the ice on the actual land mass, that will increase the water volume. How much land mass is there on the north pole? None at all. There are only huge ice slabs floating on the ocean.
Granted, the south pole has a land mass of 14 mio km2.
But if that makes a difference on the water level, what about reclaimed land? We are still reclaiming land all over the world. A reasonable sized submarine displaces about 7 tons of water. There are hundreds or even thousands of submarines and ships out on the sea at any given time. Do they not make a difference?
Also, people read the age of a glacier by the layers that have been 'building up' over the years. Does that mean, the water that is tied up in a glacier dries out the ocean?

Lets assume for a moment, Global Warming does actually exist. Maybe it is perfectly normal. From the mid 12hundreds to about the mid 16hundreds (some scientist even say till the mid 19hundreds) there was what is referred to as the 'Little Ice Age'. Maybe our planet is still recovering from that and thats why we detect increase in temperature? Another example. What caused the Ice Age? Was that not perfectly normal in the development of the planet? Or was it the technology dinosaurs used, that cooled the air?

Fact is: We dont know anything at all about these things. We havent been analising this planet for long enough to understand what is happening. In a couple of hundred years people will look back on us and laugh hysterically about their dumb ancestors, who thought they were warming up the planet with their inferior technology. Just as we laugh now about the earth being flat.