Al Gore has produced a documentary, titled, An Inconvenient Truth, in which he attempts to convince us that the Earth’s atmosphere is warming and that, unless we drastically reduce CO2 emissions by cutting back on fossil fuel combustion, etc., etc., we will do permanent damage to our planet.

Yes, Gore’s name will be forever linked to the words “Inconvenient Truth,” but not in the way that members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences might think. No, the “inconvenient truth” is that Gore’s hypothesis of global warming is exactly wrong… upside down. The Earth’s atmosphere is not warming, it is getting colder and is on an irreversible course toward another Ice Age.

I, for one, want to be on the beach at Malibu to see Gore, Al Franken, and all their liberal buddies standing there in swim trunks – surf boards, tanning lotion, and cold beers in hand – when the first icebergs start floating by.

In the January 15 edition of NewsMax, writer Phil Brennan provides an excellent primer on global cooling that almost anyone – with the possible exception of liberals, Democrats, and radical environmentalists – can understand. I’ll try to condense Brennan’s work into as few words as possible. Here are the facts:

It is not the impact of industrialization and fossil fuel combustion that is causing the seas and oceans to warm. To the contrary, it is the existence of a growing number of underwater volcanic eruptions and extremely high temperature magma seepages on the ocean floor.

The increasingly active underwater volcanoes and magma seepages cause the oceans and seas to grow warmer, sending increased amounts of moisture into the atmosphere. Increased moisture in the upper atmosphere causes increased amounts of rain and snow at ground level. Some areas of the United States have experienced record-breaking rainfalls in recent years, some as heavy as 20 inches of rain in a day.

So far as Gore’s dreaded CO2 emissions are concerned, atmospheric levels of which now exceed 400 parts per million (ppm), paleological records show that each time CO2 levels have exceeded 300 ppm there has been an Ice Age. Every time; no exceptions. The same paleological evidence shows that there has been a series of naturally occurring ice ages every 100,000 years for the past 5 million years. The last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago.

Recent international scientific expeditions have also found the following:

· A new type of volcano may be heating up the floor of the western Pacific. A group of small volcanoes (petit spot volcanoes) has been discovered far from the tectonic plate boundaries (mid-oceanic ridges) that often spawn volcanoes, earthquakes, and other geologic activity.

· Scientists working in the southern Atlantic have found a 407 degree C. hydrothermal vent, just south of the Equator, the hottest yet known on an ocean floor.

· German and American researchers discovered more hydrothermal activity at the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean than ever imagined. The Gakkel ridge is a 1,800 km volcanic mountain chain stretching beneath the Arctic Ocean from Greenland to Siberia. The scientists found surprisingly strong magmatic activity west and east of the ridge and some of the strongest hydrothermal activity ever seen at mid-ocean ridges.

The mechanics are simple. The earth is getting warmer in some areas thanks to the heat being given off by the seas. The melting ice in part of the arctic regions is probably the result of hydrothermal activity in the Gakkel Ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean.

When warm air moving north meets cold air going south, it creates violent weather. And the warmer the air from the south and the colder the air from the north, the more violent the weather will be. And as the amount of atmospheric moisture increases, more precipitation is sent toward the poles, resulting in more snowfall to build heavier and heavier polar ice packs.

As the glaciation process continues, winters will get longer and longer as colder air reaches farther and farther south. Summers will get shorter and shorter, and growing seasons will slowly diminish. Areas previously blessed with temperate climates will be transformed into subarctic regions, and the subtropics will turn colder and colder.

All of this can happen in a matter of years. So few, that the world may very well learn that the interglacial period has been replaced by the glaciation process before the end of the next decade. What mankind faces now is not the burying of cities under miles of ice – that's tens of thousands of years away. In our immediate future, Brennan believes, is the beginning of the glaciation process. The effects will be more or less immediate and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

“If I'm correct in all of this,” Brennan warns, “we'll know it over the next couple of years.” Stay tuned for a really “inconvenient” truth.