Who are alarmists kidding?
Rather than dealing with manageable, non-fiction environmental issues that have gone unaddressed, the Obama regime intends to pilfer another trillion or two in taxpayer money to feed the gaping maw of an unnecessary "climate change" bureaucracy as well as enrich the alarmist sucker fish who perpetuate the fantasy.
Whilst eliminating the usual dreck und abfall that accumulate daily in my email, I ran across this item sent to me by Gator John on Friday. It contains no Earth-shattering theorem deduced by proper scientific methodology.
The message does not contain a magical elixir to eliminate the disingenuous claims of Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmists. Nor is there a transcendental talisman to disarm professional scare-mongering ghouls such as alGore who have amassed obscene wealth and power by pressing calculated lies and manipulated data.
It does, however, present a few common-sensical points to ponder as a gaggle of arrogant know-alls continue the myth that they can actually affect or control an entire planet's climate system. Read the following anonymous email that is currently making the rounds:
To Think That We Can Change the Earth
For all of you out there in America and across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus God you worship named "Climate Change" or "Global Warming," there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway.
Are you sitting down?
Okay, here's the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash a week or so ago, has, to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can possibly be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.
I know, I know (have a group hug), it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up til midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of Yosemite, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs; well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the drain in just the past week.
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the past week has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses, you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating American jobs, well, that must seem really worthwhile now.
I'm so sorry. And I do wish there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western USA will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.
So, grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and try to have a nice day!
As journalist David Warren has mused: "And then there was acid rain, and then there was the ozone hole and ..." It would be interesting to see some attempt to estimate the total direct cost to the world's taxpayers of all the scare-mongering since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring first started appearing in the New Yorker magazine in June 1962.
Each scare, in turn, is packaged and marketed with more skill than the previous; each enjoys its run in the world's headlines. Each in turn is gradually forgotten as more facts come to light, as the apocalyptic predictions fail, as the story line bores through repetition.
And then a new scare needs to be invented.
Hype and Chains for 162 more days.