Global Warming is a Bunch of Crap, and Other Thoughts

I have never been a fan of Al Gore's. I think he is a pontificating moron who babbles pseudo science to try to sound important. I think that anyone who has to listen to him speak for more than three minutes should be paid bore reparations. That being said, I think one of the biggest frauds being perpetuated on the American public is the myth of Global Warming. Any one older than 21 might remember the dark days of Jimmy Carter and his prolonged ineptitude. It was that genius who helped to make the Environmental Protection Agency what it is today. Never mind blaming Nixon for Watergate, his hand in starting the EPA should have been his high crimes and misdemeanors. It was said that in time the EPA would become the most powerful agency of the government, and look how things have come to pass. It's crazy. And if I have to hear one more chicken little tell me that the sky is melting, I am going to lose it. The beauty of Global Warming is that it is an all purpose bugaboo. If there are too many tornadoes- it's not because things like that are cyclical-no sirree- it's Global Warming. If there are too many hurricanes to suit-it must be Global Warming. And if there is too cold a temperature, or too hot a temperature-you guessed it Global Warming. If you get a chance, read an excellent book by Ronald Bailey. Global warming and other Eco-myths. Mr. Bailey does a wonderful job of explaining all the hooey involved in the myths of Global warming. It's brilliant and should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to have a serious discussion about global warming. The only time I gave slack jawed Gore any credibility was when he spoke of urban sprawl. I do hate seeing housing projects spread from here to there in the otherwise pastoral country side. What Al forgot to mention in his Nobel Prize speech was that because of advancements in agricultural technology, we can grow more consumable food on less acreage. God bless high tech fertilizer. But I have noticed that some people truly have to have something to be afraid of, it seems to get them through their day, for some reason. One of my favorite excerpts from Mr. Bailey's book explains that the whole ice caps are melting hooey started when some genius went to the north pole, saw open water there and immediately went into liberal nut job panic over drive. If he had taken a breath and asked someone, they could have told him that the polar caps ebb and flow with parts of ice breaking off and moving all the time. Didn't he see the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a child? They had people floating all over the place on pieces of iceberg, yet no moron was screaming global warming then! If you have to be afraid of something- make it be something real-two years of liberal control in Washington. Don't be afraid of made up Bogey men-unless you want me to tell you the story of the Golden Armed Ghoul-now that was a scary story that my brother Mitchel used to tell me. Relax, and let me know if you want that scary story of my brother's. You'll thank me later.