Unintended Consequences

Despite their supposed reverence for Gaia, the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warmingists have no reverence for human beings

James Lovelock, one of the founders of the Gaian religion, tells us: “You could quite seriously look at climate change as a response of the system intended to get rid of an irritating species: us humans. Or, at least cut them back to size.”

This anti-human attitude has several unintended consequences. For example, the Congress of the United States is currently unwilling to allow exploration and drilling for petroleum in both the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge and off the east and west coasts of These United States. They blame the oil companies and their "windfall profits" for the rise in petroleum prices. Their hidden agenda, however, is that they want prices of petroleum products to go higher and remain higher. They fear that if petroleum prices return to their inflation-driven slow rise, Americans will continue to use their cars, trucks, and airplanes to improve their lifestyles and productivity, something the Congress is deathly afraid of. Most of Congress, if they had their way, would prefer to impose economically ruinous environmental taxation that would bring a European-like doubling ($8.00/gallon) of gasoline prices.

The Congress, as has been its constant purpose in the 20th and 21st centuries, wishes to reduce Americans' productivity and economic growth. Their excuse this time is that they're afraid of the possibility of a computer-predicted crisis called Catastrophic Anthropogenic (human-caused) Global Warming.

The Congress has been bullied into believing the myth of CAGW by a group of environmental terrorists, led mostly by Albert Gore and his lackey scientists at NCAR and NOAA who are bribed by the government of These United States to the tune of $5Billion each year. These Lysenkoist scientists want the Congress to attempt to reduce Americans' CO₂ emissions because they believe that those CO₂ emissions are the cause of the warming our globe is experiencing. It's odd that they believe this, because scientists around the globe are now finding that the global warming "crisis" 1. was based on a fraudulent piece of scientific propoganda called "the hockey stick", seen most prominently in Al Gore's mis-titled "an inconvenient truth" (mis-titled because it is actually polluted with at least 20 convenient lies) , and 2. is no longer happening.

Scientific and statistical evidence now points to deliberate malfesance on the part of those who created the "hockey stick" picture of temperature trends so revered by the Congress's favorite environmental terrorist, Albert Gore. 3000 people were killed in the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. How many hundreds of thousands of people have already starved to death because the price of food has risen by 75% now that we are fueling our cars with corn instead of fossil fuels?

Don't you think that you could "prove" just about anything, perhaps that the moon was made of green cheese, for example, if you had (conservative estimate of Bush Administration climate research spending) $29Billion to spend to "prove" that assertion?

Hockey Stick Debunked

From commentary on the above-linked debunked article: "I believe personally that here in the US in the Year 2008, government-owned global warming businesses have become an important manpower sink for scientific and engineering talent which in previous decades would have been otherwise employed in America's smoke-stack, industrial supply, and/or consumer goods manufacturing industries."

The temperature trends as measured by satellite are actually down over the 1998-2008 period. Many scientists believe that this is happening because of a delay in the Sun's sunspot cycle. Some are even predicting a global cooling that could produce a new Little Ice Age.

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, believes that his baby has lost its way and has gone round the bend on an unscientific crusade.

A scientist in South Africa is calling the IPCC a band of "environmental terrorists."

Believers in the Gaian religion like to call people like me "deniers" (as in "holocaust deniers") because they want to lump me (and those whose scientific sense prevents them from believing in the Gaian religion) in with people who deny that the Nazi holocaust against Jewish people ever happened.

I call them anti-humanists, because they have reprioritized life on Earth as being Gaia-centered rather than human-centered. They believe that humans are a cancer on the surface of the earth, and, like James Lovelock quoted above, need to be cut down to size (read: real human holocaust of millions of deaths) because of their pollution of Gaia.

Gaian religionists would call me a supporter of pollution. I am not. I favor the reduction of pollution through economic development. There has not yet been a society that, when made wealthy enough to stop pollution, has forgone the cleanup of their environment. England no longer tolerates the coal-driven smog of the 1950s. Los Angeles no longer tolerates the acidified smog of the 1970s (which I personally experienced).

And CO₂ emissions are not pollution. If they were, the best thing humans could do in the current situation would be to cap all the volcanoes in the world, and cover all the oceans with some sort of CO₂-impermeable membrane, thus preventing CO₂-outgassing from the Earth itself. Perhaps the best advice for a Gaian religionist would be to stop emitting CO₂ from his or her breathing.

Increasing CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere benefits all life on earth. Even the miniscule temperature increase that might be caused by rising CO₂ concentrations is good for places like Siberia and Alaska. All plant life depends on "eating" CO₂ for nourishment. And without plants, all animals and all humans would ultimately perish.

Humans have always adapted to environmental change. We can (and will, if the Congress of These United States will quit interfering with our attempts) adapt to changes in Earth's temperature no matter whether those changes are caused by the Sun or by human activity.

What we cannot dare risk is a real human holocaust caused by meddling politicians imposing economically disastrous curbs on human CO₂ production.

I can do no better than to quote the Right Honourable 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: “…as for the crooked pseudo-scientists who invented the hockey stick, supported it, and continue to parade it in the mendacious documents of the IPCC, no journalist would dare to ask any of them the questions that would expose their self-seeking corruption for what it is. These evil pseudo-scientists, through the falsity of their statistical manipulations, have already killed far more people through starvation than 'global warming' will ever kill. They should now be indicted and should stand trial alongside Radovan Karadzic for nothing less than high crimes against humanity: for, in their callous disregard for the fatal consequences of their corrupt falsification of science, they are no less guilty of genocide than he.”