Some high temperatures from Europe today:

• Moscow   -1 F

• Kiev      0 F

• Warsaw 0 F

• Budapest 1 F

• Prague  7 F  (a veritable heat wave)

 

In related news, it was announced today that former vice-president Al Gore will publish another book on global warming, entitled "An Inconvenient Truth," in April. The shivering residents of the aforementioned cities can only hope that such climate change is on the way, and soon. Unfortunately for them, the only warming going on is that from the hot air emanating from Gore's mouth. And as massive as that may initially sound, I don't think even it can raise the ambient outdoor temperature in central and eastern Europe.

 

I'm not sure which is a more frightening thought--that Gore and his fellow environmentalist liberals think they can control the weather, or that they think they should. Either way, it represents some enormous egos seriously run amok. This should temper the instinct to otherwise laugh off the fear mongering sequel to "Earth in the Balance," and take seriously the threat to liberty and freedom it really is. For the goal of those into radical environmentalism is nothing short of total control, and the truth is but an impediment to the movement.

 

Bluntly put, there is no hard science behind any of the warming claims. Even if there is undisputed data showing warmth over the last century or so, that is hardly a sufficient sample size to indicate anything meaningful--no different than extrapolating conclusions from temperatures taken only in January or July. Climate is like geology; the clock runs extremely slowly and the ability to show changes and trends takes far more data (of a far more reliable nature) over a far longer time period than humanity has had the technology to collect. As such, it is going to be quite some time before a truly scientific proof of warming can be produced.

 

And common sense ought to tell us that over such long climatological stretches, conditions are bound to change back and forth from time to time. After all, at times Earth has both been hot and humid enough to support dinosaurs and cold enough for an Ice Age with woolly mammoths. To mess with this natural process--especially without knowing a problem actually exists, the exact nature of it, and precisely what needed to be done to correct it--would be both arrogant and reckless, and could cause far more damage than if Earth were left alone to continue to do what it otherwise has been for millennia.

 

Gore and his near-hysterical environmentalist brethren are little more than flim-flam artists, con men playing on people's emotions so that they might get power and control over pretty much everyone and everything. In the 70's it was the coming New Ice Age; today, it's warming. (What the phony cause du jour will be in 2030 is anyone's guess.) Whatever it takes to get you scared enough to hand over power to them in order to "fix it." Once that power is had, nothing would be beyond their reach to prohibit--from entire industries down to your can of hairspray--if they can simply claim it causes "warming."  It's just another card in their little game of political three-card monte, except the stakes aren't a couple bucks for a street hustler--it's your freedom to choose how to live your life, from what vehicle you drive to where you live, right on down to that hairspray being an aerosol or pump (or forcibly replaced by gel).

 

Even if Gore and his friends were correct on the facts, their "solution" is nothing of the sort. What good can all sorts of government regulations possibly accomplish, other than to give him the massive power he seeks? Does Gore really think that, had he been around 25,000 years ago, legislation would've stopped the glaciers in their tracks and forced them to beat a hasty retreat? Do environmentalist types really think they have the ability, much less the expertise, to control the weather? And is someone with that utter lack of humility fit to have power on such a grand scale? Again, I'm not sure which is more frightening--that they think they can, or that they think they should. Either way, they should not be allowed to try.

 

"Global warming" is just another weapon used in the relentless assault on the liberty and freedom we enjoy. Make no mistake: at its heart, this has nothing to do with weather and everything to do with restricting your choices and controlling your behavior, simply because another group of people thinks they have the authority to judge and judges your choices wrong. We should be willing to sweat and to shiver for the sake of protecting this precious inalienable endowment from the Creator. In accepting the responsibility that comes with it, we should make good individual choices so that we don't give the warming con game any more credibility than it may already have. And we need to stay vigilant against the real foe--government control that has already proven far more dangerous to humanity than climate change ever could.

 

In the meantime, give me some SPF 10,000 sunblock (just in case), and some sturdy thermal long-johns for the good people of Moscow...