The Nile Is Just A River

I realize that I keep swearing off engaging the "global warming" debate, actually it is worse than you might think, as I have been making that statement for about twenty years now about various "end of the world" scenarios made by tree huggers. But I just cant help myself, its in my nature to throw the bullshit flag when I see flagrant fouls.

See Id consider myself an environmentalist, a conservationist, an all around outdoorsman if you will. My years living in New York City have diminished my time spent outside, but not my passion for it. I have become the proverbial weekend warrior, but that notwithstanding, the environment remains an issue dear to my heart and I remain active to this day in various organizations that I believe actually make a difference in a small way. As the hippie bumper sticker says, I try to act locally. I'm not trying to save the world, I just build and clean up trails.

I don't let political ideology get in the way, and some groups that I belong to are rife with your typical tree hugging granola munchers, which makes for some great debates. Well, not really as it seems that as soon as they exhaust themselves of their talking points about how man is evil, Exxon is evil, and how George Bush (or fill in the blank GOP) is evil... they don't have all that much too say. I'm used to the rhetoric, and it bores me, but it is more easily dismissed in person than online.

As I mentioned this is something that has been of interest to me since my teens. Like the old saying goes about how if you're not a liberal when you're young.... Well Ive never been a liberal, but like most young idealists, I wanted to save the world too. I just have always taken a more practical common sense approach to it. I walked the walk.

I have seen first hand how man can indeed harm the environment by witnessing Allied Chemical's illegal dumping in the Onondaga Lake or Love Canal (I actually used to throw some mean keggers in the empty houses) as just two examples and will readily admit that mankind needs to be a more responsible steward of our home.

But we are not killing the planet on a global scale, the end is not nigh, and we have not broken the thermostat in less than three hundred years since the Industrial Revolution. Al Gore and his cronies claim that thirteen of the hottest years have occurred in the past twenty years, fer fooks sake the planet is billions of years old, of which man has existed for just a few short ticks of the second hand, and to make that statement is nothing less than scaremongering.

It just doesn't add up, and that is why you only hear one side of the argument about the damage that man is causing and rarely hear from the alarmists about the certain contradictory facts such as the Little Ice Age, The Maunder Minimum, or....

.....Volcanic impact on the atmosphere

Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat photos by donkeyhue

...and the obvious yet ignored impact of Solar Irradiance

Aurora Borealis photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang

The alarmists do not want scientific debate or they would not be so adamant that the discussion is closed and label all those that disagree as deniers and skeptics. This is not how science works, this is how, yes, junk science works, and in a way religion. If you dont believe in man made global warming then you are going to hell.

They try to discredit those in opposition as monetary pawns of big oil without revealing their own vested financial stakes in the game. Granted, Big Oil has the most to lose, theoretically, but it is also true that the one world alarmists (yeah thats right one world alarmists, Ill get to that in another post) have the most to gain from doing the least.

If a man came knocking on my door telling me there was gold in my backyard, I might believe him, but if he was selling mining equipment as well, then Id slam the door with a quickness. That is in essence what the alarminsts are telling us, and the sheeple are buying it. Time to wake up and shut the door.

EE-Aw!!!