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October 30, 2006

Climate Irony

The website for The Great Warming asks you join in their call to action because:

Our children's planet is at stake...

And it only gets smarmier from there. It's cloying emotional environmental indoctrination pure and simple.

Go to the Video Gallery and suffer through the 30 second promos featuring Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves. But be sure not to miss the extra-special self-contradictory 2 minute promo.

Morrissette narrates:

For millions of years the changes in Earth's climate have been driven by forces of nature. But for the last century and a half Earth's average temperature has been rising. faster than any time in the past ten thousand years. The consensus in science is that much of that change has been driven by us.

So for millions of years the climate of the Earth has been changing. These changes weren't caused by factories, power plants and SUVs, because there weren't any of those things millions of years ago. But forget about all those millions of years when climate change was a perfectly natural phenomenon. Let's only look at the last ten thousand years. And out of the last ten thousand, let's really look at only the last 150 years. Because in comparison to the history of the planet that goes back hundreds of millions of years, 150 years is significant time frame.

But let's assume that the narration as presented is correct. And the temperature of the planet has gone up faster in the last 150 years than at any time in the last ten thousand. What about the ten thousand before that? Or the 200 million before that? No let's not face the fact that we just don't know, lets just change the way of life of everyone on the planet - just in case.

Morrissette narrates:

You know there are people who still say global warming needn't concern us. if it's happening at all it's a natural trend and there's not much we can do about it.

Yes Alanis about a minute ago you said that for millions of years climate change was caused by forces of nature. In fact there are many people saying that and despite climate alarmist's claims of consensus to the contrary, there is still significant scientific debate on the issue.

The simple truth is that for everything the global warming activists assert as fact, there is counter evidence and ample room to doubt and question. Even one of the experts in the video presents contradictory statements:

We're on a track to 700 parts per million of carbon dioxide on the planet. We haven't seen that for 50 million years

This begs the question what caused those levels of carbon dioxide 50 million years ago? But we have the answer - Alanis told us. It was those forces of nature. And if the forces of nature could do that all by themselves 50 million years ago, what would they need our help for to do it again?

I know it's probably unfair of me to pick on Alanis Morrissette. She is just reading what some global warming propagandist put on the cue cards. But you get the sense that she does so with unquestioning faith.

The climate of the earth is not a static thing. It has changed and evolved over hundreds of millions of years, and it will continue to change and evolve long after humans have gone the way of all the previous dominant species. Isn't that ironic?

Hat Tip: Blogmeister USA
Non consensus science links via Greenie Watch

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:43 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment

1 Whenever they start talking about "the children" or "social justice" or "the war on", hold on to your wallets and your liberties.

I like what methane does for the environment. That's why I release as much of it as possible toward members of either political cult

Posted by: Wayne at October 30, 2006 04:00 PM (0FlPF)

2 I'd like to ask them (celebrities in general) if they would care to quit making movies, commercials and the like.

Tell them all to find real work, like the rest of us, making a real living instead of bloated paychecks and living in lavish, multi-million dollars homes in Beverly Hills.

Surely something more productive could be had from their time than to be wasting it making film.

Posted by: -B at October 31, 2006 12:13 PM (Y6iIc)

3 Global warming, as a subject for concern, seems to be a favorite topic for the thinking-impaired. Warming is caused by heat (Duh!). The single greatest heat-source on the surface of the planet is not the automobile, nor is it a product of powerplants. It is the air-conditioner! It is difficult to find accurate numbers, I suspect because no one really wants to know, but, a central AC unit for a moderate sized home puts out more BTUs than does a car. Most people also do not operate their auto 10-12 hours per day. Individual window units put out more heat (for their rating) than do central units. Commercial applications generally put out far more heat than home units (per person cooled) simply due to the nature of business. Since the number of countries "requiring" air-conditioning is constantly increasing, and because people find themselves "unable" to deal with environments wherein the temperature exceeds 68 degrees, this vast outpouring of heat into the atmosphere continuously increases. Quite obviously, the increased use of these energy-sucking devices also increases our dependence on fossil fuels, which also adds to the thermal overload on our planet.

Have those who gripe brainlessly about global warming considered also that each human body adds BTUs to the environment?

What about our tendancy to eat our food cooked, releasing countless more BTUs.

In truth, there will always be those who complain for the sake of complaining. When the "Global-Warming Doomsayers" begin coming up with workable solutions we should begin to pay attention to them. Until then, they will continue to be part of the price we pay for having an open society.

Posted by: Mike at November 04, 2006 05:28 AM (0Co69)

4 This is the first time I've actually heard of air conditioning being at fault for global warming. It is certainly a unique argument.

As for the annoying habit of cooking food - that's probably a losing battle. Unless you happen to like chicken sushi and the gastro-intestinal after effects!!!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at November 04, 2006 05:36 AM (DdRjH)

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