I posted a response to comments on the Global Warming International Business Venture we’ve heard so much about. That was several days ago–actually it was a day or two before the CEO was awarded the already discredited Alf Nobel prize.
Now that that’s all out in the open and company values are certain to soar in the privately held Algore Rhythms “The Buck Stops Here First” International, Inc., I thought posting it here might draw reasoned response as well.
What follows is my comment posted not much more than a few days or so ago at http://lordcrimson.wordpress.com. It starts a little way into the comment because … well, because. I didn’t want to include many names when they’re not part of this discussion.
I left “Joe” as “Joe” because it’s generic and we each know one anyway.
- On level ground ["X"] can be quite reasonable and conversational about his beliefs, although it took some coaxing to get him there when I pointed out a few things about my beliefs on the global warming hoax. He did point me to some brief and interesting preliminary reading on the subject, purely from his point of view, and that is to his credit. But it still leaves issues begging for answers.
Joe, on the other hand, apparently is in pre-law and still enjoys embarrassing himself.
Opinion reached through observation: Misrepresentation is at the heart of environmentalism’s theology.
One might ask Joe (should his rote beliefs have an occasional brush with thought) just exactly who and what triggered the ending of each and every Ice Age across the ensuing eons, and what forces or events caused the ice to form in the first place–each time? What factories and vehicles and charcoal briquettes were belching the “greenhouse gasses” that caused so much chaos?
Until those answers are clearly and abundantly answered there is no room for discussion, in my view.
I will be most happy to kick start his reasoning by suggesting he eliminate mankind and industrialization from the mix.
Hadn’t happened yet, Joe.
What you’ll see them present is a lot of charts and tables supposedly documenting catastrophically rapid advances in temperatures over several recent decades, CO2 levels in ice core samples used in an attempt to extrapolate conditions from way back yonder into today’s stab at more-of-the-same cycles for tomorrow, and so on.
Another opinion reached through observation: EcoTerror primarily works on ecophobes. Or, in the words of Vincent Gambini, “I’m a-scared.”
Is the earth warming? Oh, you betcha.
But here’s the bad news: So is Mars. Yup. It is. Jupiter? Uh-huh. And our solar system?
Well, I’ve only been to Mars and Jupiter, but my guess is “yes.”
Will this freeze-thaw cycle likely continue into whatever “eternity” there may be? Again, I’d have to say so. And I’m an authority. I was a mechanic once. I know how things work.
And until you get your head stuck in the engine room of a 1964 Volkswagen Beetle and in your struggles to get free your shoulder pushes the throttle back and that thing hits about 7500 RPM and is a nanosecond away from throwing a rod and you can hear parts getting ready to change places and your hearing is fading and you can feel the fanbelt nipping at your shirt when you finally manage to pull the R’s down … well … the equilibrium of the universal scheme doesn’t offer much on excitement compared to that, I’m here to tell you.
Still, it’s enormously humbling to confront the magnitude of our seemingly indelible influence on universal balance. Of course it is we who are melting ice caps on Mars and Jupiter, and don’t you try to deny it … but before the enviro’s intended guilt trip sets in, think about something else:
- When it serves their purpose, environmentalists would have us believe that the entire and unbelievably intimate universe is plain vanilla. It’s not.
It has nuts and cherries and sprinkles and anchovies and brussels sprouts beyond our remotest imaginings. It has radiation belts, untold balls of sustained fusion (stars), fascinating comets, and all kinds of nebulae and other jaw-dropping things.
It even has black holes, the gravitational fields of which are so strong that not even light can escape. So the speed of light not only is inconstant, light can be slowed, turned, stopped, and even made to go backward. Amazing stuff.
OK, you can stop thinking now. Just imagine, instead.
- Who’s to say our solar system doesn’t periodically pass through or just graze some spectacular cosmic force that we’ll never comprehend that alters temperatures or otherwise affects changes on our climate (a small feat, cosmically speaking)?
And what about that obnoxious nuisance of a light that keeps rising in the east every day? Doesn’t it also rise on us all for another 12 hours of
cyclical, periodic global “warming?” Put this simple phenomenon on a scale that allows for systemic encounters with any of countless variations in this wildly diverse universe of ours. Is this something to be afraid of? Why is this so hard to understand?Shouldn’t we just have squadrons of Air Force fighters lurk in the east to shoot it down and fix everything?
Yes, the sun. Our great cosmic heater, that medium-sized, violent, dangerous, and only moderately predictable ball of fusion. How ’bout that old booger, anyway?
And when are the enviros going to get serious and send a colony to Mercury for first-hand observations?They could get an Alf prize, too.
So, there it is again. I’ve suggested it a time or two before right here on A Rational Aversion. I’ve invited rational comment and had no rational answers: What caused all the other cycles–and “that’s what happened with Atlantis” isn’t going to wash.
Before Algore and the lefties push this one through their bank accounts they’d darned well better be able to define why this has happened so cosmically often before.
How ’bout it?
Regards,
ara
