Those of us who are on Facebook® have been dealing with well-meaning friends who send us invitations to join them in setting up our own (Lil) Green Patch of Earth to help rebuild the rain forests and Save the Earth from Global Warming. For a while I was getting several of these a day.
It’s Christmas time, so I thought it would be good to let the Grinch loose and stomp all over those little pointless, electronic gardens that are busy sucking up electricity in some computer server farm somewhere. I posted this note to all 171 of all my Facebook friends. I wonder how many of them will be left tomorrow?
For all my friends who send me heart warming (Lil) Patches of Earth, here is a 12 page summary of current, peer-reviewed, research on the climate.
The review accompanied a petition that was sent to American scientists to sign in support of sanity in Global Climate Research. 31, 072 have signed so far. All are credentialed and competent to make a judgment on the paper and the current state of climate research.
The upshot is that most of the CO2 released in the air in the past two centuries comes from the ocean. Man’s contribution to this is a pittance. Your (Lil) Patch of Earth, plus Bambi, Thumper, and any number of God’s creatures have been helped by increased CO2.
What about Global Warming? Look up, that orange bright thingy in the southern sky is the culprit. It has been more active, for longer, than at almost any comparable period in the past 11,400 years. This year, it became very, very quiet. Solar Scientists tell us to expect it to remain this way for thirty years. The climate is going to get colder.
I hope you are not disappointed, but your (Lil) Green Patch is not going to do very well in the cold.
Should anyone wish to send me a Facebook application that has a coal-fired electrical generation plant to hug, please do so.
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OMG! It’s global cooling! GAHHH!!!! I must start a grass roots movement. And make a film! And run for president!
In the fifties, when Global Cooling was the scare of the day, the prescription was the same — more taxes, increased regulation, and government control. The scare may change but the charlatans making the prescriptions remain the same.
I think that climate change is inevitable and also cyclical but that doesn’t mean we should abuse our resources and continue to pollute our environment.
That being said, I’m not an extremist. Moderation, and regulation that makes sense, works for me.
That’s enough “heavy” stuff. I’ve got to go drive my huge SUV that blows black smoke 1 mile down the road.
None of this changes my plans for World Domination, though it may have an effect on my strategy in certain places on the planet.
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is a nutrient. Carbon based life forms need water, sun, and CO2 to grow. In the paper linked, plants and animals have increased 40% since mid-20th century. CO2 is a good thing! Like Humor!
Many moons ago I did a post on this same subject. The media has everyone in a panic over global warming. The truth is that 2,000 scientists say there is evidence of global warming. What people do not realize is that there are 170,000 more who are not in agreement. What are the odds?
Two thousand scientists only approved a draft paper. After they approved the draft, the small group of actual writers then moved some decimals over four places and voila! Ocean rises two feet instead of one. Off to the printer we go, quickly now, no time to waste.
Two Thousand Scientists felt used! Used!
Papers disproving global warming are coming in so thickly now that a count of papers since 2003 shows that the so called “scientific consensus” is now against warming.
Since the earth cycles climate roughly every thirty years, we should all save our “Global Warming” t-shirts. Like skinny ties and stiletto heels, they’ll come back in fashion someday.
You have 171 friends? Wow, that’s 171 more than me…
well, V.E. do like some of the other humor bloggers and send me a friend request. Not like my name is secret or anything!
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