"Global Warming"

Sorry for the delay in posts.

“Please God, let this be the last time I have to seriously think about Global Warming.”

My brother, sister and I took my Mom out for a belated Mothers Day today as she was out of town last Sunday. We went to the park, had a picnic. We let her take some goofy family pictures. While this was going on, every once and a while someone would mention the fact that it’s pretty cool for this time of the year. It’s May, just in case you don’t know what month it is. May is notorious, at least in Oklahoma, for being hot. Not 120 degrees, but we should at least be hitting the 90’s on a regular basis by now. Today I would bet my left pinky it was less than 75 all day. In May. SUMMERTIME.

Why is this? Every day I turn on the news and see someone telling me that I personally am responsible for the cyclical weather changes the world goes through. Some have likened disbelief in “Global Warming” to holocaust deniers. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard “The debate is over, global warming is real.”

Nobody has a decent answer as to why the world got warmer when there were no SUV’s, thousands of years ago. A friend at work actually told me cavemen could’ve caused it with their campfires and other non-environmentally friendly activities (like flinging poo).

Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore are flying around in their private jets, taking caravans of bullet proof SUV’s to Greenie meetings and events. Practice what you preach, eh?

How bout this? Water vapor caused 95% of the greenhouse effect, or “global warming”. What’s the other 5% you ask? Methane (cow farts), carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and others. Carbon Dioxide, Co2, made up most of that 5% (3.6%)

Here’s the million dollar question:

How much of the total greenhouse effect are humans responsible for?

0.12%. If we’re killing the planet, we did it with a spitball in the library. Absurd? Exactly.

Here’s something else. An 18 year old in Canada was forced to watch Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, 4 times this year in HIGH SCHOOL. Just in case you didn’t notice, I capitalized that to show emphasis. Canada’s Public School system has bought God knows how many copies of this movie and are making their students watch it over and over again. This makes me wonder how many students in the US may have been forced to watch this trash.

Folks, lets grow a backbone here. Just because someone tells us something over and over and over, doesn’t make it true. I mean seriously. The guy who played in Titanic tells you Global Warming is real, so you think “He’s been in movies, he’s got to be right.” Al Gore gets a few scientists to say they believe in Global Warming, and all of the sudden that means it’s fact. Even though the scientists knew nothing about weather or climate as they were anthropologists, or physicists, we’re still supposed to give credence to their poorly reached opinions.

You know what’s happening all along the way as we argue and fight for the truth to be heard? Millions of dollars are being made. Web sites are selling “carbon credits” to make people feel better about making up part of the .12% of the man-made greenhouse gasses. How much time has Al Gore spent on global warming that could’ve been spent fighting poverty and disease and famine around the world. Darfur is real and people are dying there in droves. Man-mad global warming can’t kill thousands of people. Sure, it might get hot some day and we might have a tornado, or earthquake or even a tsunami. That doesn’t mean that we could’ve prevented it by driving less. .12%, people. Come on.

Doesn‘t anyone think it‘s time to move on from global warming to something that‘s a real problem, like whether or not Santa lost any of his reindeer with the recent pet food recalls from Chinese manufacturers.