The fact that the debate keeps renaming itself from global warming to climate change
underscores the fact that the concept itself is ambiguous.
Ice caps and glaciers have been melting since the end of the last ice age
about 10,000 years ago. What caused that ice to stop and the massive ice sheet
created, to melt and recede? I expect the naturally occuring cycles in the
planet's geology and meteorology.
Never in the angst and handwringing about this misunderstood thing, does
anyone really address the affect of the sun. A several thousand degree thermonuclear reaction in space itself capable of cycles and fluctuations with solar flares, sun spots and other variations in that star's weather.
And we're about a half degree rise in tempurature ?
Indeed Mars's ice caps melt and freeze with some regularity.
So, what is the crisis ?
I expect man's inability to adapt to his surroundings is the real crisis.
That thousands of people, living in a city between a lake and river, seven feet
below see level, in a hurricane zone, with four days warnings of a severe hurricane
and did nothing but wait, proves this.
Perhaps nature was only trying to cull the human herd ?
If there is a sane solution, it will come from the market place and not a
bunch of politicians bent on spending billions of dollars not their own
to make people feel bad becasue they live a comfortable lifestyle. This
is the crisis as the ne'er-do-wells who run the government, being lobbied
by the equally wealthy "environmental" lobby see taxpayers as a rich source
of money and this contrivance of a crisis as way to influence, or coerce,the
way people behave and act.
We have been in a war with the muslim/Arab culture for decades. Probably a lot longer than most people on this board have been alive. Recall it was in 1978 (28 years ago) the radical islamic Iranians seized the U.S.'s embassy and took U.S. citizens hostage. Shortly thereafter Ayatollah Khomeini returned returned from exile from our allie (not our friend) France. The patriot act is nothing more than a reaction to others using our laws against us.
We are having to fight these poeple now because we have done for so long what many now advocate, do nothing.
Sadly, history's lessons have been ignored. Pearl Harbor established that an ocean is no longer a barrier to outside aggression. We have learned our liberties are being abused by outsiders to attack us from within.
"Those that appease the crocodile will simply be eaten last" -Winston Churchill
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The fact that the debate keeps renaming itself from global warming to climate change underscores the fact that the concept itself is ambiguous. Ice caps and glaciers have been melting since the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. What caused that ice to stop and the massive ice sheet created, to melt and recede? I expect the naturally occuring cycles in the planet's geology and meteorology. Never in the angst and handwringing about this misunderstood thing, does anyone really address the affect of the sun. A several thousand degree thermonuclear reaction in space itself capable of cycles and fluctuations with solar flares, sun spots and other variations in that star's weather. And we're about a half degree rise in tempurature ? Indeed Mars's ice caps melt and freeze with some regularity. So, what is the crisis ? I expect man's inability to adapt to his surroundings is the real crisis. That thousands of people, living in a city between a lake and river, seven feet below see level, in a hurricane zone, with four days warnings of a severe hurricane and did nothing but wait, proves this. Perhaps nature was only trying to cull the human herd ? If there is a sane solution, it will come from the market place and not a bunch of politicians bent on spending billions of dollars not their own to make people feel bad becasue they live a comfortable lifestyle. This is the crisis as the ne'er-do-wells who run the government, being lobbied by the equally wealthy "environmental" lobby see taxpayers as a rich source of money and this contrivance of a crisis as way to influence, or coerce,the way people behave and act.
We have been in a war with the muslim/Arab culture for decades. Probably a lot longer than most people on this board have been alive. Recall it was in 1978 (28 years ago) the radical islamic Iranians seized the U.S.'s embassy and took U.S. citizens hostage. Shortly thereafter Ayatollah Khomeini returned returned from exile from our allie (not our friend) France. The patriot act is nothing more than a reaction to others using our laws against us. We are having to fight these poeple now because we have done for so long what many now advocate, do nothing. Sadly, history's lessons have been ignored. Pearl Harbor established that an ocean is no longer a barrier to outside aggression. We have learned our liberties are being abused by outsiders to attack us from within. "Those that appease the crocodile will simply be eaten last" -Winston Churchill