Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Baby, it's hot outside. If it wasn't for the refreshing
cold front pushing through parts of the U.S. right now, one might be tempted to
think there is something to all that global warming nonsense that conveniently
breaks out every time it is warm enough for a climate change alarmist to break
out in a sweat.
To be fair, climate change is real. It occurs four times
a year when winter turns into spring turns into summer turns into fall.
Alarmists don't see it that way, so they squawk "The sky is falling"
every time conditions vary outside their interpretation of what they think is
normal.
If there was ever a case to be made for global warming,
it would have been in 1936 - back in the days when no one worried about how cow
flatulence or greenhouse gas affected the atmosphere.
Unlike anything we've experience since; the three-month
long 1936 North American heat wave wiped out crops and snuffed out lives during
the Great Depression's "Dust Bowl" days. The heat wave that began in
June largely ended in September, leaving in its wake over 5000 deaths, drought,
and widespread destruction. Even as hot as it's been, many of the record-high
temperatures experienced then are unmatched today.
To make matters worse, the 1936 heat wave was preceded by
one of the most severe cold waves of the 1930s. The 1936 North American cold
wave included recorded wind chills of minus-100 degrees Fahrenheit in the
Midwest, ending with March floods. People concentrated on how to put the next
meal on the table rather than obsessing over things like air temperature
fluctuations.
It's good they didn't obsess, because temperatures
returned to normal that fall, just like the cold front making its way across
the country is doing today as I write.
The planet spins, the seasons change, temperatures
fluctuate - and mere mortals are foolish enough to think they can control the
forces of nature on a global scale and believe they can turn back the tides by the
sound of their voice. Four years ago, then-Senator Barack Obama proclaimed his
policies would lead to future generations acclaiming "this was the moment
when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,"
attributing zero credit to the planet's creator in whom Obama professes to
believe.
It's funny how nature has a way of rebounding all by
itself. The BP Gulf Oil Spill illustrates this "God Factor" in
contradiction to everything alarmists believe. A most informative January 10,
2011 Time Magazine article, "After the Great Spill: How the Gulf Cleaned
Itself" explains how it did just that when "microscopic
bacteria" digested "much of the hydrocarbons while they were still
deep under the surface." Texas A&M University chemical oceanographer
John Kessler said the spill "helped us understand the capacity of a
natural system to handle this kind of event by itself." Wow.
Kessler's study also found formally "significant
amounts of methane" scientists thought might impact global warming and
assumed "would be around for years" had "largely
disappeared" when "methanotrophs (bacteria that feed off
methane)" mopped up most of the mess.
Reasonable stewardship of the planet is a non-partisan
no-brainer, but there is a line to be drawn at the point where choices inflict
indelible injury on mankind -- making man subservient to the very things
created to serve him.
According to The New Yorker, Obama has said "the
most important policy he could address in his second term is climate
change." Unemployment numbers are abysmal, and the economy is in tatters,
so the Alarmist-In-Chief elevates his pay grade to do something a little more
vexing like healing the planet. Amazing.
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