Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Sunday, December 06, 2009 1:43:00 PM
If I had known of global warming during my St. Louis childhood, I would have welcomed it in January and February, enjoyed it in April, May and June and thought it was rather overdone in July, August and September. I did wonder why some of the shorter days, as in August and early September were warmer than some of the longer days when we had more sunlight, but then I learned that the earth was tilted on its axis, so that we in the northern hemisphere were closer to the sun at certain times in the year than at other times. This, I, in my innocence, reasoned was why some shorter days were warmer than some longer days. But I was an ignorant child. I thought the sun had something to do with warming the earth.
Now I know better. Gorian Scientific Thought has made me realize that all the warmth is brought about by the human race. It is true that atmospheric scientist Al Gore has made millions of dollars and received a Nobel Prize for warning the world about the danger of the existence of the humans, but that is incidental to his desire to save the planet. And Mr. Gore has other scientists on his side, hundreds of them. I looked up one strong supporter. She is a professor of, I think, social work – although it may be a similar, related science such as sociology. With such backing, how can Gore be wrong about global warming?
But social science professors are not alone in their endorsement of Gorian Thought. There are numerous scientists directing and employed by organizations devoted to the study of global warming who warn of its existence and the disastrous effects it will have on the earth’s future. It is not the millions of dollars they receive, however, that inspires their continued concern. It is for the good of the planet.
Numerous suggestions have been made to reduce this warming. Most of them have to do with ordinary people reducing their “carbon footprints” in varied ways, mostly by purchasing things from companies from which Gore and other leading worriers expect to make a lot of money. None of these appear to be working well however and I have a different idea.
Consider the earth tilt problem. Could we be increasing it, and global warming, by all of the sky scrapers we are putting up? Perhaps as an experiment we should take a few cities with a lot of sky scrapers, perhaps New York and San Francisco, and reduce all buildings over two stories. The people there could live in grass huts as our millionaire politicians seem to believe we do in places such as Cumberland Furnace. I don’t really believe they will eliminate sky scrapers however, no matter how sensible my idea sounds.
Yet there is another problem. Our earth has not been warming recently, not for the last ten years. It may actually have been cooling.
If the earth has actually been cooling for the past ten years, think how much colder it would have been if we hadn’t had global warming. I have considered that possibility and discovered what I consider the absolute truth of the desire to reduce the ersatz global warming.
Remember that every time some Republican begins to attract national notice as an articulate and reasoned critic of our movement into socialism, the national news media begin to demonize him or her. The greatest of these attacks has been on Sarah Palin. They have not only attacked her, making up “facts” as suits their needs, they have also attacked her family. Naturally her oldest daughter deserved it. After all she is the only eighteen year old child/woman to become pregnant out of wedlock. No other parent of a teen-aged daughter has had such a problem, or fear of such a problem. However, I thought they went a bit far when one comedian suggested that Mrs. Palin’s fourteen year old daughter was at a baseball game in order to have sex with a ball player. All appears fair in attacks on Sarah Palin. Still, thoughtful people, called conservatives, continue to support her. This is the real concern. This is where global warming comes in.
Government (taxpayer) paid “scientists” are fully aware that the past ten years have been global cooling years. If, by attacking anything which contributes to global warming, they can increase global cooling, they may be able to create a new ice age. In such case, as Democratic leaders and scientists, such as ex-Vice President Gore, calculate, a glacier would cover Alaska and, hopefully, Sarah Palin as well. That would solve the Palin problem.