Are you familiar with the phrase ”Acid Rain?” Probably not, at least unless you’re as old as I am. (I’ll be 83 next month). Many years ago, the usual clique of white robbed, serious sounding, multiple degreed scientists, declared in no uncertain terms, that man (as usual) was destroying the earth with acid rain. The acid rain was ruining age old statues, spoiling wonderful buildings, and man must stop it. All sorts of ways to stop the acid rain were spouted forth, and as usual, most concerned citizens bought it, and were alarmed at the possible future of Mother Earth. Thank goodness for science! It was then found out that the acid rain had been going on for millenniums, and it was caused by (get this) evergreen trees. The earth was not in imminent danger. Whew!
Then, I am sure you must remember the ozone problem. There is this huge ozone cloud over the earth, which threatens to utterly destroy us. We have to stop it, and science said that we must get rid of Freon, because Freon fertilizes ozone formation or some such gobbledygook. At any rate, hundreds of billions were spent re-fitting extant refrigeration units everywhere, with a new type of Freon (F-135), which supposedly didn’t increase ozone. Air conditioners at home and in cars were suddenly evil, because they had this F-12 or F-22, and this was feeding that onerous ozone cloud hovering over earth. Commercial and domestic refrigerators had to be re-fitted, and new ones changed over before they could be sold. Billions were spent without a whimper. No one dared to doubt science. The billions were spent, the ozone cloud remains, and has been there for a million years probably. The damage was done, and we were all poorer. When I was a kid, I remember advertisements for amusement parks saying “smell the ozone,” which came from electrical sparking of rides. I love the smell of ozone. The rides were usually powered by D.C. current taken from trolley wires, because most amusement parks were served by streetcars running out in the country to serve the parks. Not meaning to bore you, but I grew up in Washington D.C., and it was great fun to take the streetcars to Glen Echo Park, running through woods and farms on private rights of way, at speed. After ozone, science had to find some new threat to earth, which would make them look ever so smart by, naturally, saving us on earth from a calamitous end.
Earth warming! That was it! Science, and of course Al Gore, discovered that not only was the earth warming, but carbon dioxide was increasing at alarming rates, and naturally we were all doomed. After a while, ‘earth warming’ was changed to ‘climate change,’ but protecting their profession, most white robbed, degreed, scientists around the earth, joined the fraud, and exclaimed that carbon dioxide increases must be stopped, and of course the climate change was all caused by burning fossil fuels such as nasty coal, especially. They forgot to mention that electricity produced by coal is the absolute cheapest electricity there is, and coal fired power plants long ago had scrubbers and other pollution control devices attached, and were no threat at all. The also forgot to mention that expensive solar only works when the sun is out, and expensive wind generators only work when the wind blows, with both requiring heavy government subsidies to make them even remotely acceptable.
The fact of the matter is that carbon dioxide is breathed in by all plants and trees, and they exhale oxygen. You know…oxygen, which we need to breathe. Obviously then, the more carbon dioxide we have, more green trees and plants can grow which will throw off more oxygen. No scientist has said we have too much oxygen. The carbon dioxide scare is a total fraud. As far as climate change (earth warming), the white robbed ones said that 2015 and 2016 were the ‘hottest years’ on record, and they only wanted a temperature increase of .02 per decade. 2015 and 2016 were both major El Nino years, which produce temperature spikes. Even the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration admits the El Nino effect on temperature. How ‘hot’ were 2015 and 2016? Just .04 degree celsius, which is not even close to a margin of error. The earth has increased its temperature since 1900, of less than 2 degrees, and most of it occurred between 1910 and 1945, when hundreds of thousands of coal burning steam locomotives, pulled thousands of trains daily, 99% of electricity was produced by coal, and most homes were heated by coal also.
One volcano eruption, releases more carbon dioxide than all the steam locomotives, power plants, and home furnaces that ever existed. For millions of years, earth has had periods of cooling and warming, without the influence or help of puny man. Heard of the ice age, when glaciers came down to the U.S.? Or when a huge volcano erupted in the South Pacific 170 years ago, which spewed trillions of tons of ash, causing earth to have no summer because the Sun’s rays could not penetrate? Imagine the carbon dioxide released then, and we’re still here.
Is there climate change? Earth warming? Possibly, but nothing man can do could possibly change it, or cause it, any more than man’s action could change acid rain or that damnable ozone cloud. Where I live, we have an average of 10 inches of snow per year, and already we have had 11, and it’s not even February yet. Whenever an Al Gore type or scientist proclaims inevitable death to earth or us inhabitants, stop, catch a breath, and realize that like the C.I.A., governments always make huge mistakes and those mistakes are always an excuse for more control over us. Forget it! Watch President Trump guys, it’s going to be a great show!
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