Extinction is the Only
Answer
By Alan Burkhart
Well, I suppose the Great Global Warming Debate is
over. That august scientific body known as the United States Supreme Court has
ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. That settles it, right? The SCOTUS is
after all the final arbiter of all human affairs.
So, since it's now obvious that we must
immediately and at all costs reduce or eliminate this deadly pollutant, what
should be our next move? Eliminate all coal-fired power plants? Cease the
production of gasoline and diesel fuel?
While these noble undertakings would surely be of
vast benefit to Mother Earth, we must instead consider the most constant source
of carbon dioxide: Animal life.
All animals, including humans, exhale carbon
dioxide. As I sit here exhaling CO2 (and smoking a Camel), I can feel the planet
heating up all around me. To make matters worse, I'm presently sitting in a
Georgia truck stop (in Madison, just in case you're curious) and I'm idling the
truck engine. Just think of all those pollutants spewing from the exhaust pipe
of this nasty old 18-wheeler.
Every time we turn on a light, drive our cars, or
run the air conditioner, we are spewing tons of pollutants into the fragile
ecosystem. Even by the simple act of breathing, we and other animals are
polluting the atmosphere and warming the planet with deadly carbon dioxide. The
only solution is the forced extinction of all animal life. Humans, dogs, cats,
spotted owls, everything must go.
Okay, I'll get sensible, although I was having fun
being an idiot.
Here's a jolt of reality for all you global
warming alarmists out there: Carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is
a vital link in the chain of life on Planet Earth.
The simple fact that increased ocean-produced
carbon dioxide follows, rather than precedes, increased water temperature
debunks the fraudulent assertion that carbon dioxide causes warming. It is a
result of warming, not a cause.
Consider this bit from scientist Gary Novak, who
has created a wonderful website dealing with politically tainted science and its
consequences:
“Laboratory measurements show that carbon dioxide
absorbs to extinction at its main peak in 10 meters under atmospheric
conditions. This means there is no radiation left at those frequencies after 10
meters. If then humans double their 3% input of CO2 into the atmosphere, the
distance of absorption reduces to 9.7m. A reduction in distance is not an
increase in temperature. Convectional currents stir the heat around removing any
relevance for distance.
Scientists who promote the global warming hype try
to work around this fact by claiming something different happens higher in the
atmosphere, which they claim involves unsaturation. The difference due to height
is that the absorption peaks get smaller and sharper, so they separate from each
other. Near the earth's surface, the absorption peaks for water vapor partially
overlap the absorption peaks for CO2. Supposedly, in some obfuscated way,
separating the peaks creates global warming. There is no real logic to that
claim. It is nothing but an attempt to salvage global warming propaganda through
obfuscation of complexities. “
Is the planet warming? Of course it is. Solar
radiation, Eccentricities in Earth's orbit, cosmic rays from far away super
novae and tectonic activity all contribute to changes in our climate. And these
items are much stronger climatic forces than puny
Man.
Credible scientific and historical evidence
clearly show that climate change is cyclical. We are still warming up from the
previous ice age, and we will eventually begin a cooling trend that will lead us
into the next ice age. History suggests that increased carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, caused by rising temperatures, is a precursor to a coming ice
age. It has happened before, and it’ll happen again regardless of how many
awards Al Gore receives for his next crockumentary.
Why, you ask, would our fearless leaders push this
unscientific claptrap on the citizenry? The answer is simple: Control.
By creating a false crisis, government provides
itself with multiple opportunities to exercise control over the people through
new laws to combat that crisis. The Kyoto Protocol, for example, would empower a
global bureaucracy to dictate the lifestyles of people all across the planet via
draconian energy-use restrictions. The rich and powerful would find ways to
exclude themselves from making the sacrifices they expect from the rest of us.
Al Gore’s energy-hogging Tennessee mansion is an excellent example of the
blatant hypocrisy of those who seek to tell the rest of us how we should
live.
Mister Gore’s former boss, Bill Clinton, seemed to
believe that the Kyoto Protocol was a great idea to “save” us from global
catastrophe. Here’s an excerpt from a 1998 report from the Department of Energy
regarding Kyoto:
...The introduction of such reduction (Kyoto)
would affect both consumers and businesses. Households would be faced with
higher prices for energy and the need to adjust spending patterns. Nominal
energy expenditures would rise, taking a larger share of the family budget for
goods and service consumption and leaving less for savings. Higher prices for
energy would cause consumers to try to reduce spending not only on energy, but
on other goods as well. Thus, changes in energy prices would tend to disrupt
both savings and spending streams. Energy services also represent a key input in
the production of goods and services. As energy prices increase, the costs of
production rise, placing upward pressure on the nominal prices of all
intermediate goods and final goods and services in the economy, with widespread
impacts on spending across many markets...
In other words, reducing our energy consumption
artificially - independent of natural market forces - would have a wildly
detrimental effect upon our way of life. Call me crazy, but I’m not ready to
give up my 140-mph car or my frosty-cool oversize central air conditioner just
yet. I’m an American. And we Americans like our lifestyle. We like having to
wear a long sleeve shirt in the living room in summer because the air
conditioner is set at 65 degrees Fahrenheit. We like our gas-guzzling SUVs and
performance cars. We like Big Macs and large fries and drag racing and flying in
jumbo jets. And we’re not likely to change anytime soon. If you doubt it, then
try telling Al Gore to trade his mansion for a house like President Bush’s
humble home in Texas.
Go ahead and stage another environmental protest.
I’ll ignore it. Go ahead and pass more bogus energy regulations. I’ll go out of
my way to violate them. I’ll be damned if a bunch of bureaucrats and
politicians, who are unqualified to manage a lemonade stand, will tell me how to
live my life.
Related Reading:
Split
Supreme Court Orders EPA to Act on Greenhouse Gases
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263641,00.html
There is no Valid
Mechanism for CO2 Creating Global Warming (Gary
Novak)
http://nov55.com/ntyg.html
Article regarding the D.O.E.’s Report on the Impact of
Kyoto
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/BG1229.cfm
