As in the song "Lawyers In Love" we have a land, a nation with too many in high places willing to do anything for money neglecting people, honor and principle but a change is coming. No more falling for the lie of living only individualistic and independent lives leaving us divided and conquerable by powerful special interests but a people, a nation collaborating for the greater common good in various groups all across the nation. A land of people working together to help one another with a vision moreover as Jesus would have us be. Love, Mercy, Forgiveness, Kindness....something about another Land. The change is coming

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Nahhhh! There's No Global Warming

We've got slowly but consistently rising global temperatures since soon after the beginning of the industrial revolution. We've got, from the early 70's to the 80's, a quickening of rising temperatures and in the 90's a clear break from the gradual rise of the last 50 years setting record temperatures across the board. And now in the last 3 years we have set record temperatures well above average and even at an alarming rate. We've got record breaking back to back hurricanes and 100 degree days in some parts of the country in early April and record breaking temperatures the world over, so, global warming? Nahhhh! There's no global warming. The overseers of monied interests in Congress would have you believe that, that global warming is just a bad dream or a faulty interpretation of prophecy, anything but the truth and the Bush adminstration does all it can to silence or suppress the voice of it's own scientists, one of their facist tactics we are already quite aquainted with.

Regardless of alternative events in play we have an already well established pattern of consistent global warming hand in hand with increasing emissions of man-made greenhouse gases. A debate continued, for a time, over the interim warming periods between little ice ages but there is little evidence to explain where we are now other than the accumulation of man made carbon dioxide and methane gases in the atmosphere. Scientists have done their homework and the debate is over but like the need to hold on to a drug, Congress, the administration and record setting profit corporate businesses cannot deal with letting some money go to deal with the environment. They will have to decide between passing the buck in costs, decimating our economy, or dealing with a little less money themselves. Cold turkey's a drag but left to make the decision themselves it will be as it would be with the drugie ...Naahhhh! There's No Global Warming!

1 comment :

David Wilson said...

good story on environmental lobbies in the Globe today, tho' for some reason they did not put it up on their website - ??? - anyway, i contacted the author and he posted it himself: http://www.charlesmontgomery.ca/mrcool.html

obvious comparisons to the tobacco lobbies denying any connection with cancer, and the asbestos miners denying asbestosis

the difference is that this time it is (don't wanna be melodramatic but) the fate of the planet rather than some individual outcome

i remember something from my youth ... education was going to solve the problems because people would be capable of educated debate, never came true, and they graduate from university now with no idea of anything, can't spell, can't think, inarticulate

there are a host of websites with names like 'environmental truth' and 'friends of science' telling us that everything is ok, i'm no einstein but i can see through it, but so what?

don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

gets me down though

be well.