Saturday, March 24, 2007

Why Global Warming Is a Good Idea

I love the global warming debate. I love the way the media portrays this as a new phenomenon. When did Al Gore write Earth In the Balance? Back in 1992 when he was running for Vice President. He said that the automobile was going to destroy man. Forget the fact that the industry of the automobile might be the single most important technological in the history of the world. The automobile shrunk the world and made trips that would take days, instead take mere moments. Here's a question for you greenies: You're having a stroke, do you me to drive you to the hospital or get the horse and buggy?
Here are some questions about global warming that bounce around my brain:
How can scientists say that the earth will get warmer in the future when they can't tell me if it is going to rain tomorrow, with any degree of accuracy? These same scientists predicted global cooling in the mid-1970's.
Why are scientists who dispute global warming likened to Holocaust deniers and silenced at all costs?
Why is global warming a political issue instead of a scientific debate?
My problem with global warming is that scientists who dispute it are labeled as stooges for capitalism, instead of being debated intellectually. They are threatened or cajoled, denied research grants and generally abused for holding a position that is politically incorrect. The Earth is pretty old(4,570,000,000 years, give or take), and to think that the it is warming because of humans, that's ridiculous. But the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change(IPCC) says it is so. The media jumps on the bandwagon and away we go. In the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report(by the way, that's four assessment reports in 19 years, the IPCC was formed in 1988, guess these guys get paid by the hour) they say there is a 90% certainty of heavy rainfall and a 66% certainty of increases in droughts over the next century. Well, which is it? My college logic professor(Dr. Nishimura) would not be impressed by their simultaneously taking both sides of the one position.
The reaction to global warming will have a disastrous effect on third world countries, particularly in Africa. Maybe this is the whole point. I have become convinced that certain portion of the American population wants to see a return to primitive living. They want to see it without losing their frappucinos and digital satellite dishes, though. So they decide to inflict their vision on other people. They label Africa a pristine environment that cannot be touched. Most of the countries in Africa are run by tribes who spend more time killing each other than hiking and camping. The progress that is attempting to save this continent will never happen if global warming activists get their way.
Who cares if the polar ice caps melt(although some Russian and American scientists reported in 2005 that the Greenland ice cap was getting thicker)? The artic ice cap is a floating piece of ice. If it melts it will not cause flooding. Imagine a glass of ice water. What happens when the ice melts? Does the water level go up, down or stay the same? It stays the same. Any rational thought sees right through this. The hysteria surrounding global warming is ridiculous.

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