CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE
The planet Earth has been racing
through space in the gravitational trail of its sun for
hundreds
of millions of years. It has endured shifting, emerging, and disappearing
land
masses, upheavals, earthquakes, monsoons, landslides, and floods. It
has been hammered
by meteors and pummeled by repeated volcanic eruptions
spewing tons of flaming debris,
ash, smoke, gasses, rocks, and lava from its
bowels out into the air and onto its surface.
It has dealt with magnetic
pole reversals, solar flares, sunspots, tsunamis, hurricanes,
tornados,
nuclear blasts, and ice ages. Forests have become deserts, deserts have
become forests, and both deserts and forests have become ocean floors. Ocean
floors rise to
become mountain ranges. Entire animal species and human
civilizations have come
and gone leaving hardly a trace of their existence
The only constant on earth is change.
It is the height of arrogance and
audacity to ignore all this and believe that the
activities
of some humans are killing the planet or changing its climate.
Doomsayers
have been
predicting doom since there's been a word for doom. More so today,
since doom-saying
has become such a profitable enterprise. (Wann'a buy a
carbon credit?) So far, not a single Doomsayer has been right. No doom
yet. That's a lousy track record. It seems clear
that
global warming (from the '90s) or global
cooling (from the '70's)
is obviously a political
issue, not a scientific one. "Climate Change" is the NATURAL condition
of the planet
and is certainly not a
man caused problem.
Almost all of human activities are
directed toward the singular goal of making our lives more comfortable and secure.
We just need to continue cleaning up our act, but not at the expense
of human comfort or freedom. The problems are simple and so are the
solutions. Get political environmentalist profiteers like Al Gore out of the
equation and let real people do the work.
So far, environmental activists have done as much, if not more, damage as good.
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