Global Warming

GLOBAL WARMING

The Earth's going to burn up. We'll all be eating animals, endangered or not, in order to save trees to reverse the greenhouse gas effect. We'll all be too stupid to realize that eating all the animals didn't work and so start in on eating bushes, shrubs and trees. Then we'll all die, cold and lonely on a barren, hot rock circling the sun. And our most precious resource, our children, will never be born. Makes ya kinda wanna crawl back into the womb, don't it?

I am a big fan of PBS. Lately however, they seem to be full of doom and gloom. Every episode begins the same : "It's not a matter of if, but rather, when." Please, give me a break. If the reversing of the Earth's magnetic poles doesn't kill you, it might be volcanoes or tsunamis or the death of the Spotted Snowy Owl or the over fishing of the Minsk whale or the dreaded disruption to the annual migration of the Monarch butterfly. But the big hitter is "Global Warming", a phrase sure to send shivers down your spine.

I have a great respect for Dr. David Suzuki, but I think he's playing Chicken Little here. We won't even mention Al Gore. He still has too much on his hands perfecting the Internet to give this subject much serious thought as witnessed by his recent film.

The global warming issue is based on junk science, pure and simple. Even those scientists who originally supported the idea are now distancing themselves from it. It seems there is evidence that the world has gone through warming and cooling periods since time immemorial. And as much as the doomsayers would have you believe that we are in the midst of an abnormal heating period, we actually seem to be in the midst of a normal fluctuation. Blame it all on those nasty SUV's if you want, but the argument just doesn't wash.