Global Warming: The Fear Factor of the Democratic Party

I'm starting to think that Global Warming is sort of like the Democratic version of The War on Terra. It's the Fear Factor aspect of political rhetoric.

It's the oldest ruse in human history. "Something terrible is about to happen, but I can protect you from it." This is a line used by every religion and political party or demagogue.

I have long stated my observation that there is not ten cents worth of difference between the major political parties in this country. They are like Ford and GM or Lowe's and Home Depot. To get elected to office, politicians of every color have to sell influence, and they have to sell it for money because it takes a lot of advertising to sell any product be it toothpaste, laxatives, movies, or candidates. It takes money to make money and it takes money to make votes. And nothing but sex sells like fear.

Enter Chicken Little. I don't know if he looks more like George Bush or Al Gore. "The sky is falling!" "The terrorists are coming!" "The polar bears are losing their turf." It all sounds like a refrain from the same song to me. It's a song called Fear.

Some pundit may be able to convince you that if you recycle your beer cans or if you drive a Prius, that somehow you can eliminate or at least retard global warming. Fergittaboutit. Use all the coal fueled electricity that you want and drive a Hummer and burn leaves in your yard. The Earth is large, much larger than you. You can't do anything to harm the Earth no matter how many pictures of melting ice that you see on TV. The Earth will adjust to whatever excesses that you can concoct. The question is whether WE can adjust.

Oh yes, humans may go the way of the wooly mammoth and the sabre toothed tiger the great sloth and the dinosaur, but the planet will survive, at least until the sun goes out.