Mountains and Molehills
Not to beat the Global Warming thing to death, but to beat the Global Warming thing to death, there was more global warming in the news today. Will congress stick it to Bush over this one?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16886008/?GT1=8921
This is the biggest scandal yet. You should really be excited over this one. Apparently the Bush administration has . . . been trying to use political pressure to get scientists to play down the whole global warming thing. Representative Henry Waxman of California, a Democrat just so you know, according to the Associated Press and MSNBC, has leveled two accusations as noted in the article I have linked above.
1. Waxman “knows” that the Bush administration has documents that show “senior” administration officials have been trying to make the public doubt global warming.
(Wait, my statement is misleading here.
The
- science
of global warming.)
2. The papers they handed over added “nothing” to the information they already had.
These are pretty serious accusations you know. These weren’t just interns trying to make the public doubt global warming. These were senior officials. Also, I am incredibly surprised to find out that a branch of the government has asked for information and gotten . . . nothing. That is so surprising when it comes to government. You would at least expect something.
All right, my apologies. I’m being more than a little facetious here. As I also looked through that particular article, I noticed that the senate is getting really serious on this global warming thing. They’re introducing bills—one by Barbara Boxer if signed into law would be expected to reduce greenhouse gases by an incredible 80 percent! And as you know, congressional bills always produce results.
With all this talk, I’m all for doing things that are helpful to the environment. If global warming were more existent and harmful than my invisible friend Fred, I would be all for doing something about it.
Here’s some news for those who are so worried about a warming environment. When the dinosaurs were around, the entire world, including the continent of Antarctica had lush, tropical climates. The greenhouse gases, water vapor and carbon dioxide: you know what’s really bad about them? Plants use them. Carbon dioxide is used as a part of photosynthesis, and water, well, it ends up raining down on us, and providing us with water to drink and plants the moisture they need to grow.
Does not the Bush administration have a right to conscientiously question global warming—especially if all these issues are going to have serious implications for the economy—just as the media and others use it as a hotbutton issue? Should we maybe be a little worried that congress will be trying to rush through bills about global warming, especially if it’s wrong, especially if it’s—uh—junk science? In all honesty the earth is incredibly resilient. For those who have faith in evolution (I don’t believe in evolution, but faith is what those who believe evolution have in it), if they were truly consistent with evolutionary assumptions, don’t they believe that something else will evolve to take our place? I don’t believe anything will, but I also don’t believe in global warming.
I do believe that sometimes we can make a real mess of the environment, but think of the achievements of mankind in the last few thousand years, including the garbage heaps of great empires. Where are they? Buried under feet and feet of dust or dirt. Covered up by plants. The environment is resilient too.
In all honesty, I wouldn’t mind fewer cars on the road, and more efficient cars, but for different reasons. Less traffic, cheaper gas, less dependence on foreign energy sources. All good reasons. I would not at all mind the eyesore of less trash on our roads or blowing through our neighborhoods. I would not mind at all less pesticides in our water supplies. I would love to see good stewardship of our trees—our sources of wood not only for how they beautify our countryside, but for how they provide us with the timber for homes, and beautify those homes when we are able to make fine furniture out of them. They are just one of the many gifts of God. We really should take care of them. Solving our nation's real problems—such as the threats of rogue regimes, keeping our economy humming, getting people to get rid of their debt and start taking better care of their financial futures, and doing these things with less government, those are worthwhile mountains to climb. It just seems to me that global warming is a molehill. Yes, enough already about global warming. –Cal Samuel August
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