"Hey, Nee, want to go
for a swim?"
"Ander, are you crazy?
It's freezing outside. That's why they call this the Ice Age. Ask Thal. He's
also nuts. Maybe he'll go with you." [Ne-ander-thal, a joke. Cave humor. Ha ha. Get it?]
"No, bro'. Take a look
outside. The ice is melting. It's getting nice and...toasty."
***
About 15,000 years ago
much of North America, Northern Europe, and lots of other places were covered
with ice. And it wasn't just that crunchy stuff that all those folks in
Massachusetts and Vermont walk thru on the way to their Social Justice meetings.
This was real ICE, a mile or two thick and covering the continent from coast to
coast. And then, gradually, it all melted, except for a little that was left on
the poles, North and South.
But how could that be?
With no industry to burn 'fossil fuels' (most of the 'fossils' were actually
still walking around), where
did all that 'climate change' come from?
Well, Earth's climate
has been changing since it was formed 4.5 billion years ago due to what
scientists call, 'natural causes.' i.e., changes in earth's orbit, changes in
the way the earth's axis tilts, changes in the sun's output of heat, etc. It's
only been during the past 200 years or so, i.e. since the start of
the industrial revolution, that we've had a little extra warming (0.8 degree C.) from burning
fossil fuels and, during the last 17 years in fact, there's been no additional
surface warming at all. Go know!
And, as far as it being
a pollutant is concerned, global warming is no more a 'pollutant' than is global
cooling or global lukewarming. Pollutants are pollutants and warming is warming.
Calling a change in temperature a 'pollutant' just to get everyone's juices
going is dumb and dishonest and you shouldn't do it even if it gets people to
vote for you or to come and see your movie.
***
***
Summary of latest U.N.
IPCC Report on climate change:
1: We made a lot of mistakes
last time but we got better computers and we're smarter than
we used to be.
2. Things are much worse than we
thought.
3. Send money.
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