Short Term Thinking
I am beginning to think that I should have started a blog just to harpoon the gas bags of greenhouse gas hysteria. How arrogant can one group of people be to assume that man has such a big impact on the Earth. Sure we cause pollution. But so does Mother Nature. Every time we have a wild fire that burn out of control, destroying millions of acres of virgin, protected forest, we get smoke, ash, and the newly Supreme Court defined pollutant carbon dioxide. When a volcano erupts, destroying the pristine forested slopes beneath the spewing cone, you get, ash, smoke and oh yea, that newly Supreme Court defined pollutant, carbon dioxide.
The latest focus on the next minute in history comes from the world of oceanography. Our oceans “may” be losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Great headline. There is that implication that man has destroyed the oceans and that they can no longer perform the carbon dioxide to oxygen conversion that sustains life on our planet. We are doomed. The article states “… researchers reporting in the journal Science say at least one large ocean area — the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica — seems to be losing its ability to take up the gas. Their four-year study concluded that an increase in winds over the Southern Ocean is preventing it from absorbing more carbon and is causing the sea to release some of the gas that it had stored.” I would say that it appears that the article is supposition and largely without substance. See, I can talk that way too.
It is the same kind of logic that leads them to say that cow farts are contributing to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, cows fart. But before the white man came to rape and pillage the natural beauty of these United States, the plains were covered with millions of buffalo. Each of those animals was also a gas factory. For their insinuation to hold the slightest hint of validity there would have been a significant rise in temperature due to the immense buffalo herds. Oh wait. I forgot. That is what caused the end of the last ice age. Between the mammoths and the buffalo, any open flame would have meant disaster. Mystery solved.
Icool
Cobb
The latest focus on the next minute in history comes from the world of oceanography. Our oceans “may” be losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Great headline. There is that implication that man has destroyed the oceans and that they can no longer perform the carbon dioxide to oxygen conversion that sustains life on our planet. We are doomed. The article states “… researchers reporting in the journal Science say at least one large ocean area — the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica — seems to be losing its ability to take up the gas. Their four-year study concluded that an increase in winds over the Southern Ocean is preventing it from absorbing more carbon and is causing the sea to release some of the gas that it had stored.” I would say that it appears that the article is supposition and largely without substance. See, I can talk that way too.
It is the same kind of logic that leads them to say that cow farts are contributing to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, cows fart. But before the white man came to rape and pillage the natural beauty of these United States, the plains were covered with millions of buffalo. Each of those animals was also a gas factory. For their insinuation to hold the slightest hint of validity there would have been a significant rise in temperature due to the immense buffalo herds. Oh wait. I forgot. That is what caused the end of the last ice age. Between the mammoths and the buffalo, any open flame would have meant disaster. Mystery solved.
Icool
Cobb
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