Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Global Warming

I am one of those heretics that does not believe that we caused global warming. There is just not enough evidence to support it. There is, however, plenty of evidence supporting cyclical changes in global temperature caused by factors outside of human control. It just seems to be all too typical liberal thinking to believe we can control things that are beyond our control.

The global warming movement is more an anti-capitalism movement than a true environmental movement. After the fall of communism, there were many displaced people who found refuge in the environmental movement, and they have succeeded in hijacking an entire agenda. If environmentalism was not an anti capitalism movement, way more pressure would be put on countries, like China, who pollute way more than the USA to curb emissions. That is not how it works though. All they talk about is how bad the United States is, and how evil we are to pollute so much.

There is nothing wrong with wanting clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, and wanting to lessen and eventually eliminate our dependence of foreign oil, but the "green" movement is completely out of control. We have Al Gore running around like Chicken Little screaming "the sky is falling," while at the same time accusing Dubya of playing on our fears. Seems like the pot and the kettle to me. We do not control the weather, and we probably never will. We should want to go green for the right reasons, we do not need to do it based on lies. We should do it when the technology makes it cost effective to do so.

Another horrible thing that has come out of green technology is ethanol. Ethanol is a terrible idea. Who thought it would be a good idea to use a food source as fuel? Now, on top of the rising cost of everything else, we have rising food costs to contend with. I know, i have heard the argument too that the corn used for ethanol is not human food grade, but it is feed grade. Now it is more expensive to feed livestock, which leads to higher food prices. Now that there are ethanol subsidies, less of other crops are being grown, like hops, which led to an increase in the price of beer last year. Now you are mad, right? They will not tell you that the reason you are paying more for a case of Pabst (or your beer of choice) is because of ethanol. They think we are stupid. When you look at most people, they are right.

So, I will now probably be forced to drink hemlock by Obama, even though I am right. If humans do contribute to global warming, it is in a minuscule way. Compared to mother nature, we humans are weak and insignificant. We should not be assigning more importance to ourselves than we are capable of achieving. I suspect the dumb masses will continue to blindly follow false prophets such as Al Gore and the rest. Here is a funny article about the subject and about over anxiousness to proclaim travesty:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml

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