The earth is warming! About 1/2 a degree over the last century, I think. Some say the Antarctic is re-freezing, and the Arctic is melting. Who knows? All I do know, is that humans have absolutely NOTHING to do with it. It’s all a first rate bunch of horse puckey. This guilt trip, that us humans are the cause, is pure and unadulterated nonsense. I’m sick of it. The greenies now are even blaming the cows! Rather than going vegetarian, let’s eat the greenies. Now remember a bit of history, say about 15 years ago. Remember? We were all going to freeze to death, and the ice age was coming back! Amazing how things change, isn’t it? Today, the media and greenies are having a blast with ’carbon footprints,’ and other assorted bits of garbage, trying to make everyone feel guilty about turning on the hot water faucet, or starting a car’s engine. Yuk.
Now think about 50 0r 60 years ago, when the earth wasn’t ’warming.’ Just remember, if you can, and if you can’t, believe me anyway, because I can. 50 or 60 years ago, there were no 92.5% efficient furnaces, and no un-leaded gasoline. Furnaces were 70% efficient or less. Few heavily insulated homes and no double pane windows existed. There were no cars with computers, catalytic converters, fuel injection and solid state ignition. Cars were, compared to today’s standards, filthy. They had carburetors, breaker points, and low compression. They were also simple to fix and had no computers. Gasoline was chock full of lead, which lubricated valves and made them run great. Railroads were still using steam locomotives which belched forth wonderful coal smoke, and their sounds and sights made little boys want to be engineers, not astronauts. Trucks were gas as well as diesel, and none were turbo-charged. Diesel trucks and locomotives belched tons of black smoke. Gas stations didn’t have those anti-fuel fume nozzles, and crank cases were vented to the air, and not sealed.
Power plants had no bags and filters to capture fly-ash. We used gobs of electricity, coal, and fuel oil in our inefficient homes, furnaces and engines. Our light bulbs were of the incandescent types, and used a lot of juice. Appliances weren’t rated as to their efficiency. TVs and radios used power hungry vacuum tubes, not super efficient transistors. In short, none of the nonsense we now suffer from, thanks to the EPA, and other worthless bureaucrats, existed then. We lived simple, happier lives then, and guess what? The earth wasn’t ’warming.’ Even though we were doing everything prohibited now, because of the so called ’earth warming,’ the earth wasn’t warming. Now, we pay through the nose for everything we buy and use, thanks to this earth warming BS. If it is warming, it isn’t my fault, and I’m tired of hearing about it. If the earth is warming, there’s nothing I can do bout it, and all the greenie’s claptrap, carbon footprints, and anti-earth warming instructions, is pure and simple lies and un-truths. If the earth is warming, nothing man can do will change it nor slow it down, and cycles of this type have been going on for billions of years.
Speaking of billions of years, how about that ozone hole, which of course has been there for maybe billions of years. Some moron with a white coat on, discovered it, and presto! All our refrigerators and air conditioning systems were faulty, and endless licenses and permits had to be issued to fix an air conditioner with this new 135 stuff, or even to repair a refrigeration system. Mechanics now have to ’capture’ all this old Freon. Nothing’s simple any more, like it used to be. All the Freon 12 and 22 went out the window, and naturally that hole in the ozone is still there, and always will be. I had a chain of ten ice cream parlors in Philly, and did all my own refrigeration work. I’d go to jail now if I did it without being ’licensed.’ The costs to us from all this ozone, earth warming, and carbon footprint crud is frightening. Can’t someone stop this nonsense?
One volcano eruption will nullify every damned thing the bureaucrats force upon us in an instant. If you want to save the earth, shut down 90% of earth’s governments, make America neutral, and bring the troops home. The heat created, fuel used, and natural resources depleted by the two current criminal wars and all of the rest of them since WW II, make an efficient furnace or catalytic converter car, the equivalent of a microbe on an elephant. Nancy Pelosi’s huge plane she requisitions, burns more fuel than a hundred trucks going from coast to coast, probably. The hot air created, and paper used by those gasbags in Congress makes me ill. Government waste and mandates wastes everything, including my patience. Damn them all.