For my next installment of why I hate the government, I'm going to change it up a bit. I'm done ranting about why being sex-a-phobic is stupid and counterproductive, but I'm returning to stubborn, righteous George and his cronies. I hate, hate, HATE YOU! Also, Justin, you are probably not goig to agree with a single word of that, but let's agree to disagree, shall we?
Since I'm a loser and have been more mature than your average 30 year old since I was about 8, I was watching Frontline on PBS the other night. Yeah, I know, mock as you like. It just so happened to be about global warming. Now before I go any further, I have to say that PBS is probably as good as it gets for reporting in the US since they have no ratings incentive for advertising dollars and all the crap that makes the rest of our news not so news-like. And well, wouldn't you guess that much like the government's own study suggested that abstinence is a big fat waste o' money but George and company only believe what they want to believe, the government's own global warming study was one big "the end of the world is nigh, we're all going to cook to death!" report. So what does the government do? Ignore it? Oh, if only! They paid lots and lots of attention, actually. But this was not good, proactive attention. Instead of admitting that yes, we're breaking our planet, the administration ordered all mention of the report removed from public records. The news report even showed Congressional briefings where mentions of climate change were blacked out.
That was in the spring of 2003. It took 4 years of fighting and one uber hurricane disaster to get Georgie to wake up... or at least admit that perhaps there is a small global climate change issue. Of course, its more convenient now to follow the opinions of a public that pretty much hates you to try to win back some support. Nevermind that while you were ignoring the global warming report in 2003, you were making up reasons to invade Iraq, leading us into Vietnam 2.0: bigger, badder and even more costly! But I regress, I'm not here to complain about Iraq. That's a big can o' worms that I do not need to open and I think the previous sentence adequately expresses how I feel (and I would like to point out, felt at the time... no stance switching here) about that situation.
So back to global warming. I just do not understand how scientists can ignore science. We often talk about global warming in genocide class since its likely a hidden factor in a lot of the crap that is now going on, and according to our professor, who I am certain knows what he's talking about, the first report that humans were adversely affecting our climate was published in 1937. It is not as though that came out and then 70 years passed before the government study came out. There are probably many, many less studies linking bad diet and heart disease since that hasn't been studied for nearly as long, but we all believe that now don't we?
So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go slather on some SPF 90 since its going to be getting very toasty pretty soon. Happy Earth Day!
jenniferlynn714
13 years ago
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How'd you know I'd disagree with the global warming post? Am I that predictable?
Global warming is merely a ploy by the enviro-nuts to get the rest of the world going green. Don't believe me? Quick quote from one of Clinton's top cronies, Tim Wirth. "We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." Hmmm... Well then. Now, I'm sure there's others out there that feel that way too, but you really can't smack down an ideal because of one idiot that supports it... Then we'd all be in trouble.
But really... There is of course evidence that things are getting warmer. You can't really argue that. My source says .45 K in the last 100 years. That's numbers. You look, and see what's bigger. Simple. Here's the tricky part: relating it to the real world. Too many people abuse statistics and it's sad. They're used to create arguements today, not defend them.
But I'm getting off course. I think I'll stay there. Did you know that the stork population in the UK has been declining over the past decade or so? Did you also know that their birthrate has also fallen at about the same rate over that time. Hmmm... Bet I know where babies come from!
Kinda sounds like the trend with global warming, though, doesn't it? You know, temperatures have gone up over the past couple years, and, oo, so has that dirty, dirty industry we don't like that much. Bet I know what caused it!
Must be fossil fuels, cause you know, temperatures dropped an average .5 K between 1940 and 1970, which just so happened to be when all this CO2 stuff started really pumping out. Oh, and that was also when the global cooling wackjobs starting complaining... See a trend?
Of course, I'm just going to say it's part of a global temperature cycle, but nobody want to hear that.
Instead, let's be negative. The whole planet just got 1 K hotter. Well... OK, maybe a little bit of ice melted. Certainly not enough to cover Al Gore's PowerPoint Flordia... I think maybe he's just holding a grudge. But hey! Some of that ice melted from Siberia... Maybe Russia can farm something now! Same with Greenland! And hey, that means longer growing seasons for the rest of us. Cool! And plants like CO2, right? Hey, they'll probably have a party. Some may say a field day... Ahaha... Punny. And spring break? It might actually be warm. That'd be neat.
As for me, I like to ski. You'd think I'd be the most worried. Hmmm... Maybe I should buy up all the carbon credits.
BTW, do I have any carbon credits? Cause if I do, I don't really use 'em all that much. Anybody wanna buy them? How much do these things go for?
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