PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

I’m not a scientist. Most people aren’t scientists. And of those who are scientist there is a wide array of thought about things both scientific and otherwise. “Global warming” may not be a scam, but the one-sided hype that media and partisan politicos have been using in its honor surly is.

At some point a couple of decades or so ago, the usual crowd from socialist revolution inc. realized they finally had an issue they could push (down our throats) that no one would dare refute. They were right. Today environmental issues like “global warming” are topics that one dare not question, not because there are a lack of valid questions but that merely doing so brands one uncaring, ignorant, and -- the usual left-wing denouncement -- "selfish."

As it turns out, there are plenty of questions to be answered before choosing to freeze our economies and return to an era of stone-age subsistence.

Throughout Earth’s history, it has gone through cooling periods, then warming periods, then cooling periods, and to degrees far more excessive than what we’ve experienced in the last hundred years or so (a period which experienced both rises and falls in average global temperature). The global warming lobby, alarmist followers, and nutcases like Al Gore will simply tell us the issue is beyond argument. The media and a brigade of public school clones will tell us there is a “consensus” regarding “climate change” (a nice euphemism to escape the former “cooling” and “warming” threats) and all of them will tell us the solution is the usual demand from left-land; “sacrifice.” Give up prosperity and economic advancement, give up freedom and individuality to the great planners who know so much better how things should be “organized.” Of course the problem isn’t China or India as they emerge into full industrial capacity. No, it’s – guess – the evil citizens of the U.S. Take their money, take their success, and take their sovereignty and the world will then dance merrily in a new global Eden of Bureau authority and, who knows, the average mean global temperature in the next hundred years may deviate a half a degree. Also, no more Hurricanes, Tornadoes, or wayward asteroids -- god, don't great things happen when you shut down the free market and those pesky individualists.

There are plenty of sites and articles that have gone through the mythology, but you won’t see much of a two-sided argument being presented in the yellow stream media. Of course there’s always the evil Fox News to poison our minds with some rare alternative views:

…The notion that our atmosphere acts like a greenhouse – that is, so –called atmospheric ‘greenhouse gases,’ like water vapor and CO2, ‘trap’ incoming solar radiation to warm the atmosphere – is wrong. Not only doesn’t the atmosphere work that way, greenhouses don’t either…”

Okay, pollution is bad, alternate sources of energy should be developed, understanding human impact on global climate conditions is a sound policy…but, the scare tactics and deliberate distortion of what is occurring and what should or, even can, be done has become ridiculous.

Be afraid, be very afraid. But in the mean time, just don’t worry about things like an Islamic Theocracy or Communist dictatorship developing nuclear weapons. That would be over-reacting.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 12:51 AM