In the history of football, has there ever been an instance where two teams took to the field, then had the referee call the game ten seconds later and award the victory to one of the teams based on which quarterback looked stronger? NOT!
What kind of an idiot referee would call the game and award the victory like this? A crooked one who would be torn limb from limb by the other team and their fans, that's who. Politicians in the global warming controversy are just like that referee; in this case, they've tried to call the game on the climate change debate without taking other things into consideration.
President Bush recently surrendered his position on the global warming "science" (which totally ignores everything that happened more than 25,000 years ago) and joined other misinformed leaders that the "science" was "settled." Nonsense! The political interpretation may be settled, but the politicians are badly misinterpreting the data, which is incomplete.
Global warming is a naturally occurring phenomenon, first and foremost. Man has greatly accelerated this process and amplified it due to it's greenhouse gas emissions. That's the actual science right there.
The political "science" says that global warming is caused by man and we have only a few years left to "save the planet" and "avoid the worst of the consequences."
It sounds like the politicians spent a little too much time watching "Captain Planet" on TBS. Perhaps a little remedial Earth Science with a focus on Earth's weather patterns and the effect that sunspot activity has on Earth's temperature would be useful in getting this garbage out of their heads and refocused on the problem.
Global warming has happened many times over Earth's history. The global warming crowd's own research (as narrow in scope as it is) proves it. And the research that they want to ignore shows it even more.
So, reducing greenhouse gases is a good thing; but I don't buy the Captain Planet nonsense at all. The plain and simple truth is that the planet doesn't need saving; WE DO. The government and the global warming crowd need to quit wasting time and start planning for the future. Will we retreat from the coastlines? Or will we get our act together and build defenses to keep the oceans out of our coastal cities?
Every seaside nation on Earth will be affected by a rise in ocean levels, so millions of people will need to migrate inland. That definitely won't happen overnight.
Instead of saving the planet, which doesn't need our help, we should be focused on what we need to do to save people from the coastal flooding that is sure to come. The flooding will change our coastlines permanently. Levees need to be built; New York City will either need to be reinforced, modified, or evacuated. So will dozens of other U.S. cities and towns along the coast. Here's an adjustable flood map, showing the effect of an ocean rise from 0 to 14 meters above current levels (the hybrid maps give greater detail.)
It may be that we have many years to prepare--and we may not see any of this in our lifetimes--but in all likelihood, it will take more time than we have to relocate millions of people, move parts of our nation's capitol, move our financial institutions that will be affected in New York and elsewhere, reconfigure or move our seaports, and who knows what else.
Global warming is inevitable. It's utter human arrogance and folly that says we can stop global warming.
But we ARE in the process of kicking ourselves in our collective asses not once, but twice: the first kick is from our wasting time on how we "stop" global warming; the second kick is from our politicians and environmentalists not shifting gears and taking steps to combat the changes that are definitely on the way.
Get it in gear, folks.
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