David

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December 21, 2007

Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore about Global Warming

“It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.”  -- Abraham Lincoln

“The Earth has a fever!”  --  Al Gore

With each passing day, those who believe in man-made global warming are demonstrated to be more and more pathological in their obsession with a non-existent problem. So megalomaniacal have they become that no amount of evidence will get them to put their egos aside and, if nothing else, approach the issue with some semblance of humility. Of course, when one's goal is totalitarianism, one cannot be humble – the two are fundamentally incompatible mindsets.

A simple bit of logic would be enough to defuse this silly fraud once and for all, were the true believers not so impervious to reason. Earth was once warm enough to support dinosaurs, and once cold enough that only heavily furred mammals like mastodons could survive. In neither era was humanity even in existence. So how did those changes in planetary climate occur? Obviously, the Earth is perfectly capable of warming and cooling all by itself.

We also know that smaller scale changes have occurred just within the last few centuries. Why do you think the Vikings named a far northern island to which they sailed “Greenland”? Hint: It wasn't because the land was covered with white polar icecap. How did Greenland get green in the absence of modern human industry?  This was then followed by the “Little Ice Age,” running from roughly the mid-16^th to the mid-19^th centuries.

The year of 1816 was known as “The Year Without A Summer,” when snowstorms hit northeastern North America in June and frost killed crops in Europe. The commonly accepted explanation for this is the eruption of the Mt. Tambora volcano in what is now Indonesia.  The vast quantities of ash and dust thrown into the atmosphere helped to block out the sun's warmth, resulting in an unusually cold year until it finally settled out.

There are many more examples beyond these few, but the point is clear: The Earth has been changing climatologically on its own for many millennia, well before humans existed and continuing to the present. Our ability to do anything significant to this process is miniscule at best. All of human activity combined hasn't done to the climate what one volcano – be it Tambora, Krakatoa or Pinatubo – has in the past or could in the future.

But don't tell that to Al Gore and his fellow green Kool-Aid drinkers. In fact, the more you try to present them with, shall we say, inconvenient truths, the less they listen. They simply label you as a “denier” and treat you as some kind of heretic. Heck, even cooling is evidence of warming to them. 

A trek to the North Pole last spring by Liv Arnesen and Anne Bancroft had to be aborted after temperatures of minus-100 degrees Fahrenheit gave them frostbite and killed some of their electronic equipment. But that's not going to cause them to consider the possibility that they're mistaken. To quote trip organizer Ann Atwood: "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming. But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

So in other words, if it's hot it's warming and if it's frigid it's warming. No matter what the weather is, it proves you right. Talk about being drunk on the green Kool-Aid.

This is because their true goal is not climate control, but totalitarian control of you and your life, in every aspect. Nothing, no matter how minute, is exempt. From incandescent light bulbs (which Congress banned just this week), to the internal combustion engine (of which Congress also banned the production for any that cannot achieve 27.5 miles per gallon), there is nothing they won't outlaw or seize in their attempt to forcibly create their vision of a climatological utopia. “Global warming” is just the latest phony “crisis” used as an excuse to stomp on freedom and liberty.

Moreover, their extremism has real-world consequences. And we cannot ignore this, no matter how much amusement we derive from their ever-nuttier contortions to avoid the obvious. America's energy supplies, from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the Gulf Coast, are being locked up and held hostage by these folks and the mostly Democrat politicians they have bought and paid for. Instead of tapping our own oil and natural gas, and building new nuclear power plants for electricity, we remain dependent on hostile nations for the former and coal for the latter.

Instead of having cleaner methods of energy production and being as independent for it as possible, we remain in a tenuous situation, all because a bunch of tree-huggers who simply hate energy in all its forms (and the modern human civilization it enables to exist) have gone off the deep end, and no one has the courage to call them on it and defeat them.

At what point will we finally stop the inmates from running the asylum? And if we won't, then stock up on old light bulbs and cars while you still can.

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