So, we had the warmest January EVER. Which means the warmest January in the 200 or so years they have been keeping records. Which is just a small percentage of the total number of time periods we have been labeling January since since the introduction of the Julian calendar in 46 BC. Which of course makes it an infinitesimally small fraction of the total history of the same celestial/lunar time frame in the Earth's history.

If we could plot back the month of January back to say the Mesozoic Era, and somehow determine the average temperature for every one of those 248 millions of 31 day periods, I would be surprised to find that this past January was the warmest ever.

Based on what can only be considered a very very small sample of historic global climate history, we are all being asked to believe that the activities of mankind are drastically altering the climate of the planet.

However, the planet has had climate changes before. It had climate changes long before mankind became the dominant species. Long after the age of man has passed, the climate probably change again.

We are now at the anniversary of the enacting of the global economic suicide pact - also known as The Kyoto Protocol. In the year since the treaty to reduce output of carbon into the atmosphere went into effect, output totals for many signatories are up. I guess that's working out well.

As an aside, if the U.S. had not demonstrated the wisdom to have nothing to with Kyoto and our output totals had not gone down (which they have) do you think the anniversary of Kyoto might actually have been a bigger story than the Cheney shooting accident?

The Kyoto Protocol has proven to be what many expected. A complete failure on a global scale. The only way Kyoto could have been a bigger disaster would be if it had succeeded in doing what it was created to do. Which was to cripple he economically advanced countries of the west - and the U.S. In particular.

The air in many parts of the world is much much worse than it is in the US and most of the developed nations. This doesn't come as much of a surprise. On our way to becoming the nation that we are today we displayed a much more cavalier attitude toward the environment. As our standard of living grew we decided it was time to clear the air. What good are all of our luxuries and wealth if we can't breath.

The developing world will continue to pour carbon and other pollutants into the atmosphere until they have the wealth to care about something other than developing. If we took all of the money that has been thrown away on Kyoto and the Global Warming religion and just bought cleaner burning technology for developing economies like China and India, we would probably all be breathing a little easier.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 11:00 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment