Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:02:49 PM
Some people are beginning to catch on to the Global Warming fraud, although I don't see this fact reflected in the actions of our self-fancied rulers in Washington. However, I still don't see the pro-truth side (aka the "sceptics") pointing out the basic, glaring absurdities in the "man-made climate change" arguments. Actually, I learned all I need to know to blow up their arguments in elementary school. Of course, I am 50 years old, and went to a good suburban school, so I have perhaps an unfair advantage over the young people of today, so I'll explain.
When I went to West Ridge Elementary School in Greece, NY (a suburb of Rochester), I learned that the Earth was warmed by the Sun. Imagine that! The Sun!! Therefore, leaning on my education, I reasoned that when the sun gets hotter, the earth gets hotter, and of course the reverse as well. As it happens, during the last 11 years of global cooling, solar activity has been on the decline. Elementary (school), my dear Watson.
Does anyone besides my wife and I remember those cute drawings with the informal of Richard (this nannyish website won't let me type out Jane's brother's name) and Jane on one side, plants and trees on the other, and two arrows, one pointing in each direction? The caption usually said something like "The Cycle of Life". It taught us that when we breathe air, we expel carbon dioxide (not carbon, as the propagandists and the softhead on our side keep saying), which the plants need to live. That's why Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a "greenhouse gas". Not because it causes global or any other kind of warming (there is no evidence that it does), but because it helps plants survive and thrive, and thus is a good thing to have in your greenhouse! The plants "breathe" air, and expel oxygen, which animal life (including humanity) need to live. We were taught that this is a fine system, and has worked for a very long time. Still does, if we don't do idiotic things like liquify CO2 and bury it, which some insane people are actually promoting.
Do you ever get the idea that God is looking down at us from Heaven and thinking "Should have given them bigger brains..."
By the way, if the Democrats actually manage to get a scheme like "cap and trade" in place, whereby they tax businesses (which are nothing more than people working together or separately) for expelling CO2 (an integral component of air) into the air, they will at last have obtained one of their Holy Grails -- taxing the air we breathe.