Global Warming

Throwing Baby out with the Bathwater or Fear as a Tool for Social Engineering, Fun and Profit:

Let me state to begin that I believe the world may indeed be warmer today than it was a few decades ago, I just can’t figure out why and am becoming increasingly confident no one else knows either. I listen to proponents of man-made global warming causes tell me that we humans are to blame, while a growing chorus of others say that we are insignificant in the mix of things.

Current estimates, using the rather rudimentary records and measuring techniques of 100 years ago as a baseline, show a .06 Celsius or 1.08 degrees Fahrenheit increase in temperature over that time period. Ok I get that, but what I don’t get is the premise that the temperature of the earth does not vacillate naturally. If you YouTube, take a look at a show broadcast by the BBC called “The Great Global Warming Swindle” and get even more confused.

When I see an issue so politicized with the leaders of the cause spending their time telling others how they should live while not doing it themselves I am skeptical. When I see academics writing ridiculous numbers of grants and looking for new funding I am extremely skeptical. When I read the much heralded Kyoto Treaty and see exemptions made for compliance for countries such as China, India and much of the developing world I understand the motivation. Then further read the draconian measures that are put in place for the US and much of the Western World and that this was mainly authored by the UN I become horribly skeptical. China which is more polluted than the US and well on track to outpace the US on CO2 emissions, has no target other than to try, yet the US is chartered with reducing CO2 by 66% of the worldwide Kyoto target.

“Greenhouse Gases” or those gases in the atmosphere that help hold heat in the atmosphere are comprised of 95% water vapor. The largest other contributor is CO2, that is 3.6% of the total, of which 96.8% is natural in occurrence. So the debate, regulations and controversy we are dealing with represents .117% or 2 /10ths of one percent of all Greenhouse Gases.

Now rather than using fear as a motivator to push Chicken Little agendas, why could we not have just succumbed to common sense? If someone said: “We are not sure of the effect but does it not make sense to preserve natural resources, create less waste and develop renewable energy”, I would say yes. So I say “Save the Drama for your Mama”, I am going to support those things that make sense, walk more, drive less and spend more time thinking about the difference between things I want and things I need. Regardless of what Hollywood and its minions preach from its private jet, everyone knows that the real danger is from nocturnal robots that move my keys after I go to bed.