Climate Panic Attack

 

 

"On no! What in the world is going to happened to that cute and cuddly bear?"

Well, it is starting. Every week now, we are getting yet another story on how screwed we all are. Today in our hometown version of Pravda, we found out ALL the fires out west are the direct result of selfish Americans driving huge, unneeded SUVs and trucks around the country side. Even Moonbeam was (again) on the tube Sunday telling the unwashed that the fires are affecting California are the direct result of global warming.

Now that our President has told us the debate on manmade global warming is over, I guess the cooperative media is only going to print or air the "gloom and doom" aspect of our future. According to the propagandists, if you driving a truck or an SUV, you are as guilty as the "old white guys" who illegally took this country from innocent natives, and then went on to oppress women and minorities. As our British friends would say, all this is nothing but "balderdash!"

When I was in high school, we learned about the "dust bowl days". Yes, I did go to school in the era where educators taught facts, and did not worry about "how we felt". The "dust bowl" lasted for a good part of the 1930's. It started in earnest in 1932 and went for six years until 1938. It was a historic drought complicated by the way farming was done in those days. I could only imagine if we had a complex weather event that that today. We would have government mandates to park all internal combustion vehicles and nobody would even be allowed to pass gas.

Were the "dust bowl" days the direct result of manmade global warming? I doubt it, as there were no SUV vehicles back then. However, the energy we used was much dirtier than what we are using today. Cars of today are much, much cleaner burning that the cars of yesteryear. Whereas many people used coal to heat houses or buildings (look at pictures of London from 100 years ago), today most heat with natural gas or fuel oil. Coal that is used in our power plants today, go through high tech "scrubbers" before the effluent is released into the air.

The French came out earlier this month warning we only have 500 more days to turn this beast around, or we are all doomed. Really? First off, many don't still believe the "science" of manmade climate change. There are scientists on both sides of the equation. And many enlightened people REALLY don't believe our President. He was talking about "Cap and Tax" even before he was elected. As a good Progressive, taxing our energy is an excellent way to get scads of additional money into the government coffers. Needless to say, enough on Capitol Hill smelled a rat so "Cap and Tax" died an early death.

As for me, I woke up this morning and saw the weather report for this week. Finally some seasonable warmth rather than more of the global cooling we have been having for the past 8 months. A bit of rain today, followed by severe clear going right up to Memorial Day. No panic attack here - just facts. Everything is green and growing - just as it should be this time of year.