The Quiet Conservative June 22, 2007
Global Warming Deniers
Global Warming. The consensus is in. Every right thinking person has signed on. Scientists have
reached consensus. Former Vice President Gore has a movie. Democrats and right thinking liberals
have made saving our world a top priority. The UN has declared the true threat to the world is
global warming. The Secretary General has said that wars are being kicked off due to man made
global warming. Energy companies are putting up ads of clueless people on the street suggesting
windmills and other forms of energy. “What is your carbon footprint?” has now become the new
standard of morality. In this brave new world you can have sex with any one, and as many as you
want. You can take any drug you want, promote any lifestyle you want, as long as you recycle and
use a hybrid car. The Kyoto treaty is seen as the most important human endeavor in the history of
man. Green is in. Just ask anyone. If people dare to disagree with this earth centered religious
dogma they are “Global Warming Deniers!” The entire Democratic leadership on the national level is
clawing all over each other to be greener than the next.
But facts are stubborn things. Even if they have the potential to send you off to Earth Day
reeducation workshops. First it was the astronomers pointing out that the other planets in the solar
system were warming at the same rate and at the same time as Earth. Ignoring that is paramount if
you are pushing social policy. Next it was the atmospheric research people pointing out that carbon
wasn't the main green house gas, water vapor was. While there is no doubt human activity adds
particulate to the atmosphere, there is a doubt that it is enough to offset natural processes. The
number one emitter of the greenhouse gas methane? Cow flatulence. We haven't heard what the
Greens plan to do about cow flatulence.
But at least maybe we can agree that the planet is warming and if we don't take action in the next
ten years, it will be too late. Of course, they never really say too late for what. But wait, it seems
that not only have temperatures leveled off, they actually stopped increasing several years ago. Since
this once again is not fitting into the accepted religious nature of environmental faith, we must then
move to computer models. It is here, and only here, that true eco-faith can flourish, freed from the
constraints of doubt and fact based reality. Here we can ignore the role of weather, the oceans, the
sun, and cosmic rays and concentrate on the evils of capitalism. What about the lack of snow on
Kilimanjaro as featured on that movie? Turns out it has been receding long before man's
industrialized outputs made a difference. It appears to be more related to the lack of rain in the area
than temperature. That pattern has been set for over a hundred years. Or those ice sheets breaking
off the Antarctic continent? Seems those floating ice islands are havens of life. The minerals they
scrape off the land are released into the mineral poor waters creating a haven of life. But you were
told that was bad, weren't you? And what about Greenland, it might be turning green again. If the
natural climate shift continues, it might look like it did when the Vikings farmed the land.
For the climate shift is natural. It comes in a cycle. And that cycle depends not on man, but on the
sun. The same immense energy source that makes it warm in the summer and tilting away from it
makes it cold in the winter. Professor Patterson of the Carlton University wrote in the National Post
that it is global cooling, not warming, that we can expect in the twenty years. It is his contention that
solar winds put out a protective barrier to cosmic radiation. When the sun is active the solar winds
are strong and few rays get through, meaning less cloud formation. When the sun is less active more
cosmic rays get through and this triggers more cloud formation. Clouds reflect the sun and the earth
cools. By 2020 the sun will be in its weakest cycle in 200 years. In other words, global cooling is
the threat, not warming. The article was titled: "Read the Sunspots" and it was in the National Post
June 20, 2007. Go online and read it.
But this global warming hysteria isn't about the science, not really. Common sense tells you things
change. From hippo bones found in the depths of the Sahara Desert to sea shells in Kansas, the only
guarantee is that nothing is going to stay the same. This is about the pushing of social policy under
the guise of environmentalism. The same people wanting to raid the oil company bank accounts tell
you we must wean ourselves from foreign oil, and then prevent any domestic drilling. Under the
guise of environmental stewardship they prevent drilling off of Florida but say not a word when
Chinese oil companies begin drilling in cooperation with Cuba just miles away. They declared that
the first Gulf war was a war for oil and were right, just not in the way they intended. Saddam
Hussein attempted to grab the Kuwaiti Oil Fields and then potentially the Saudi Arabian Fields.
While the US gets 10% of its oil from the Middle East, Europe gets 35%. Allowing that thug to get
away with the snatching of the oil fields would have but a stranglehold on Europe’s economy. The
years after the first Gulf war were all about oil too. Oil money. The UN scandal of pay offs and
dirty deals with Hussein should have buried that monumentally corrupt body in the sands.
The burning of the oil fields, the dumping of oil in the sea, the environmental devastation of draining
the Southern marshlands, all met with silence by the environmental left. The Baathists, the political
party of Hussein after all, were socialists too. So, who are the bad guys always? The United States.
Our system is capitalist. That is what the left cannot stand. Individuals in charge of their own
destinies living without the direction and supervision of an elite. Guess who thinks of themselves as
the ‘elite’. We can tell you right now they do not think it is you. There is a saying about
environmentalist activists. They are like watermelons. Green on the outside, but pure red inside.