Global Warming and communism? Or just more tilting at climactic windmills?
By C. Martin
MTW contributing writer
Photo by T.R. Oglodad
Well, I think its official. The Sierra Club has now made Global Warming communist propaganda.
I dont mean Red as in Soviet Communists, by the way. Im talking honest-to-God, tree-hugging, sandal-wearing, incense-burning, free-love communists: the long-haired, dirty people that live in communes because they cant make it on their own.
See, the Sierra Club has proposed that to combat Global Warming, we should live in Communes, thereby preventing all the unnecessary vehicular travel our modern life requires of us. They call it cohousing, where you would live in what is essentially a commune, with shared areas like kitchens and so forth. And like a true commune, instead of driving to work, you would walk. Instead of buses taking your kids to school, they would walk. You get the ideajust one big eco-nut family of strangers living shoulder to shoulder to save the planet from all that evil vehicular exhaust.
My first thought when I read this wasnt of Stalin and Cheryl One-Square Crow holding hands. I thought about
See, theres this common misconception against the heathens that
In reality, evolution is a processa process of change from one generation to another, through mutation. It was proven by a Monk (Gregor Mendel), who himself was a Christian. Years later, a feller named Jean-Baptiste Lamarck came up with the idea that species passed traits from one generation to another, thereby changing over time.
And how does this relate to Global Warming? Well, both subjects (evolution and Global Warming) are really very closely related in their confusion of the facts. Algore Quixote and his Melting Cult keep trying to convince us that we are the reason for the current warming trend on Earth. Despite the fact that scientists have proven that over time the Earth routinely goes through warming and cooling periods because of the sun (that big ball of fire from which all our warmth comes).
Global Warming? True. Man-made global warming? False. Kind of like Evolution=process of change? True. Theory of Evolution=explanation for mans origins? False.
And seeing as how Algore and the Melting Cult are so dedicated to their false cause, I was reminded of an interesting parallel: Don Quixote. In the book whose title bears his name, Don Quixote is an insane landowner who believes himself to be a knight. Consequently, our hero jousts with windmills because he imagines they are great foes. Of course, he is neither correct in his assumption about the windmills, nor is he able to do anything about them.
Global Warming is the same way. Algore Quixote can tilt all he wants, but mankind is simply too tiny to affect our global environment.
We can only hope that one day, like Don Quixote, Algore will realize his error and return to sanity. The internet needs an upgrade, after all.
Comparing the work of Mendel, Lamarck and Darwin in the fashion you have chosen is misleading. It may seem to you, a quasi-modern man(since evolution has apparently no effect on you)that the connections between these men and their works are easy to see. However, if you did not have the advantage of time and modern technology, you may not think their inter-connectivity, was so clear.
Your conclusion about Global warming being a simple Earthly fluxuation would be valid accept for the fact that the climate changes which you refer to where the result of some natural phenomenon. Something like a massive volcanic eruption, a huge asteroid impact or gigantic Solar flares(you know, from that “big ball of fire”). The last little cold spell we had caused men from villages around Europe to thrash themselves in prosessions of self mutilation, to atone for mans sins against God. How presumptious we are, if Jesus was Gods son as you claim to believe, then how did these men think God was going to feel about them assuming that their pittiful show of atonement could equal the sacrifice Christ had already made. Apparently he was insulted because these men helped to spread the plague through out Europe killing millions.
But, since you are obdviously not one of the “Heathen Darwin Cult” and you therefore must be a strict adherent to the teachings of the bible; the Sun revolves around the Earth, the Earth doesn’t rotate, and Adam and Eve rode upon a terodactyl when going to Florida on vacation.
It’s strange but the smuggness of your references, almost has the scent of a Scientist. You had better run on down to the river and drown that out of yourself!
Dim.
Ohh, I thought that parting shot at Al Gore was really good. “The internet needs an upgrade”, hilarious.
What’s even more humorous, Dim, is when folks try to explain away Gore’s statement that he “took the initiative in creating the internet.” Talk about delusions of grandeur!
“Comparing the work of Mendel, Lamarck and Darwin in the fashion you have chosen is misleading. It may seem to you, a quasi-modern man(since evolution has apparently no effect on you)that the connections between these men and their works are easy to see. However, if you did not have the advantage of time and modern technology, you may not think their inter-connectivity, was so clear.”
How did I mislead? Darwin was not the proponent of monkeyhood so many proclaim him to be. It was folks AFTER Darwin, using his work, who proposed man evolved and was not created. True, due to personal tragedies, Darwin’s faith had dissolved by the time of his death, but I don’t believe he ever published anything proclaiming Adam and Eve a fallacy. What I have done is to show how the Darwinists (funny) have distorted facts to support their claims. Just like Algore and his melting cult.
“Your conclusion about Global warming being a simple Earthly fluctuation would be valid except for the fact that the climate changes which you refer to were the result of some natural phenomenon.”
Okay, you’ve confused me, now. What else could have changed the environment in the middle ages? The Vikings didn’t have factories or SUVs.
“The last little cold spell we had caused men from villages around Europe to thrash themselves in processions of self mutilation, to atone for man’s sins against God.”
How does that prove global warming to be manmade? All it proves is that man can be pretty darned evil.
“Apparently He was insulted because these men helped to spread the plague through out Europe killing millions.”
Free choice. Look it up. Post-Jesus, mankind is all “growed” up. We aren’t the book of Genesis’ rugrats anymore. Our destiny is our own, and God doesn’t “allow” or “disallow” anything. But that’s another subject.
“…you therefore must be a strict adherent to the teachings of the bible; the Sun revolves around the Earth, the Earth doesnt rotate, and Adam and Eve rode upon a pterodactyl when going to Florida on vacation.”
I am a strict adherent. However, the Bible does not say anywhere what rotates around what. You’d know that if you had ever read the Bible. Are you Catholic?
“Its strange but the smugness of your references, almost has the scent of a Scientist.”
Nope, I’m no scientist, but there’s absolutely no reason why I couldn’t be. God made the Universe to work on very specific rules. Science, the study of those rules, is nothing more than the study of His work.
Misleading is the ease, with which you jump from the characteristics of a string pea, to the complex organic chemistry of animal life. At the time of these men, the vast majority of the population couldn’t read and or write.
The sun(big ball of fire) emits what is known as solar flares on a regular basis. However, during the period from about 1400 to about 1800 the suns solar flare activity was significantly less. Therefore, less big fire ball radiation being cast our way. The average temperature around the globe dropped by only a few degree’s and that was sufficent to cause the “Viking Ice Age” which you are refering to. You eluded to this same phenomena yourself but you fail to see that there is no natural phenomena occuring now.
The fact that the current climate change is not due to such natural phenomena points directly at us “tiny humans”. Who according to you are “unable to change our global climate”. Ever heard of an MX missile? I’m sure there was a poster in your Republican voter registration.(I hope your Mom didn’t throw it out.)
The little ramble about Europeans and the Plague,I was hoping would shed a little light on the dangers of attributing everything that happens to a Religious cause and effect mentallity. If I missed the mark, Oh Darn.
Yes, I am a Catholic. Although, I fail to see why that is relevant? It’s your creation museum, I just laugh at it. It’s your Blasphemous Martin Luther, who in 1539 wrote, “…the Holy Scriptures show Joshua ordered the Sun and not the Earth, to halt!” Perhaps you should be more aware of your own religion, Protestant.
Have you read the Bible? I tried once but I couldn’t make it past Job. It nearly caused me to become an Atheiest.
I completely agree with your last statement, good show! The founders of todays big science were very religious people. Their piety may be questionable but they did have a deep devotion to their religions of choice.
Chad,
I know. I still giggle just thinking about what an ass he made of himself. I loved the parody he recieved from SNL.
“Yes, I am a Catholic. Although, I fail to see why that is relevant?”
That’s my dig on folks who profess great religiosity, yet have never read the bible. It’s like claiming you’re a whiz at Basketball, but you’ve never read the rules.
“Its your creation museum, I just laugh at it.”
I haven’t seen it yet, so I can’t pass judgment.
“Its your Blasphemous Martin Luther, who in 1539 wrote, …the Holy Scriptures show Joshua ordered the Sun and not the Earth, to halt! Perhaps you should be more aware of your own religion, Protestant.”
Luther? Heck, that’s just a spinoff of Catholicism. I’ve been through Lutheran, Episcopalian and Catholic services, and they all look the same to me. And I’m no “protestant”; I’m a Christian. It’s as simple as that. I’ll go to church with any other Christian and let them have their interpretations, and I’ll have mine. What’s the point of sitting with a bunch of robots who all have to think 100% the same? Christ died for everyone, whether they drink juice and eat crackers on Sundays, sprinkle or dunk, or dance.
DS,
So, you’re saying I should just dismiss your conclusions, then?
Luther is the fountain head from which all non-Catholic Christianity flows. Prior to the Protestant Reformation the Catholic Church was it, with the exception of the Greek Orthodox, who are Catholics with their own Pope. So, if you are not Catholic or Greek Orthodox, you are a Protestant.
I hope you can navigate through DOS, because I am certain, having never met you, that you claim to be a computer whiz. Sorta like being a basketball whiz and not being able to identify the court.
If you are a Republican, then you had better tone down that ‘robot’and ‘individual thought’ talk. If the wrong person hears you, you may find yourself near the equator with a duct-tape blindfold.
Dang Chad, I don’t know what conclusions you are aluding to? If it’s that Al Gore made a total ass of himself by claiming that he invented the internet, then do not dismiss it. It’s pretty much a conclusion held by the entire country, Red and Blue state alike.
Actually, Dim, you’re mistaken. “Non-Catholic” Christianity was thriving underground alongside the Catholic brand. This was prior to Luther and the reformation.
As far as the “dismissal” comment, I was merely asking you if you wanted me to use the same logic on you that you seemed to be using on Chuck with your little excursion into the past sins of the early church, one of them being their dogmatic assertion of Ptolemaic cosmology.
Your position seems to be that since the church has erred in the past, that those errors negate every conclusion they’ve ever come to. By extension, once you’ve done that, it’s not too hard to dismiss anyone who has even the remotest affiliation with church, Christianity, religion, etc.
But if that’s your position, then why not hold yourself to it? Why not hold any entity for which you have special deference (or not) to the same standard? Historians have erred; scientists in tandem with the scientific establishment have erred; our system of Law has erred. I have erred; you have erred: For example, I noticed some spelling and syntax errors in your posted comment number four. Should I dismiss your conclusions entirely because you made some spelling and syntax errors?
“Luther is the fountain head from which all non-Catholic Christianity flows. Prior to the Protestant Reformation the Catholic Church was it”
Um… the catholic church wasn’t even formed until 325 A.D. (Council of Nicea). 325-33=292 years of Christianity without politics. So no, I am not a Protestant, I’m a Christian, nondenominational. As a child I attended Baptist and Catholic services though, depending on which family member I went to church with.
“I am certain, having never met you, that you claim to be a computer whiz.”
Nope, I don’t claim to be a computer wiz, just an advanced user. I grew up with the TRS 80, Commodore 64, Timex Sinclair PCs. In the 90s I was a big Amiga user, although the bulk of my use was in amateur video and gaming. Not much of a programmer, and I don’t care for DOS nor entirely understand it.
“If you are a Republican…”
Only because the Bull Moose party has all but dried up and blown away.
If you want to argue the case for your non-denominational Christianity being around prior to the Catholic church, I can see that. If you think that what you practice today has any symblance to the Christianity of that period then, good for you. Saying that it was both ‘underground’ and ‘thriving’ is a hard sell but good luck. If you return to the original comment you should find that I simply remarked that man was presumptious to assume our meager atonements could equal that of Christ. I also pointed out what blind devotion can result in. For that matter look up, Jonestown Colony on Google, plenty of blind devotion for you to read about.
You guys brought personal religious belief into the debate. By the way TR, you are a protestant(Baptist, a belief system which can be traced back to the Reformation.) and if you are recieving communion from a Priest, in a Catholic Church, with out being Catholic you are commiting a sin.
I am going to hope that you both know how rediculous this post was and that your having a little sport with me here. We have wondered way off topic and I don’t see any reason to continue this debate. Having said that, have a good day.
PS. Calling yourself an Advanced user instead of a whiz is really lame. Just admit that without windows and its idiot proof icons you would be just as lost as the rest of us. If we could all surf through DOS then Bill Gates wouldn’t have a billion dollars.
“By the way you are a protestant(Baptist, a belief system which can be traced back to the Reformation.)”
No, I’m not. I don’t worship “Protesta.” I’m a Christian. And unlike most of the sheeple, I do not restrict myself to one group of people banded together based on their hard-headed interpretations. I’ll discuss any bible passage with any Christian, regardless of any denomination they group themselves in.
And Baptists predate Christianity. Or else Christ couldn’t have been baptized, now could he?
“and if you are receiving communion from a Priest, in a Catholic Church, with out being Catholic you are commiting a sin.”
The Catholics think I would be. And they can think all they want. But no, I don’t take their stinkin’ communion; precisely because they want to cast stones at others who don’t join their religious brotherhood. Communion is a creation of Christ, predating the Catholic church. ALL Christians should do it- He (Christ) said to.
“Calling yourself an Advanced user instead of a whiz is really lame.”
Well I think your use of the English language is lame. A “whiz” is someone who is unusually good at something. Like Tiger Woods is with golf. An “advanced user” on the other is someone of higher rank. Michael Jordan- Basketball Whiz. Nondescript professional ballplayer- advanced ballplayer. Steven Hawking- Whiz. Your college physics professor- advanced. Get it now?
I know a guy who is a whiz at computers. He can lose me with one sentence on the subject. On the other hand, the IT guy at work is very advanced, but I can almost follow what he’s talking about when he talks slowly and doesn’t use big words.
I agree that without Windows, all would be lost for PCs. But the Amiga graphic-based system was superior to Windows. Bill Gates has billions, not because his has the best system, but because he marketed it the best.