Climate Change or Climate Scheme

After getting through the 5^th day of rain in southern California (and wondering if there are 35 days left until we see Noah), watching most of the country in a deep freeze (even Florida), one’s thoughts turn to – Global Warming?  

Blessings to Al Gore for pulling off what may be the biggest boondoggle of the decade –no make that the century.   How things would have been different had he won the razor thin election in 2000 and not George W.?  That would have been a nightmare on its own but now I’m not sure what would have been worse—“President” Gore for eight years or subjecting us to his “Inconvenient Truth” religion and creating a legion of “lemmings to the sea” – if we have any “seas” left (according to Gore) 

Forgive me if my skepticism shows but I can not let myself to get all worked up over an issue that has been scientifically invented and millions of people being proselytized to become converts.  Is it really an environmental crisis that global surface temperatures have increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) between the start and the end of the 20th century?  Is this an issue to get worked up about?  One degree in 50 years… and for this Mr. Gore banks millions. 

Just a reminder: we have over 12% unemployment in California, a state bordering on bankruptcy; two wars in progress; terrorists in the Islamic world who want us dead; a lack of leadership by our current administration in Washington and politicians running scared everywhere.  Hello!! 

 If you are paying attention, you must know that the entire theory has been debunked by the recent discoveries of confidential e-mails that smack of a huge cover-up and aptly titled by the pundits as “Climategate”.  

These e-mails show, among many other things, private admissions of doubt or scientific weakness in the global warming theory. In acknowledging that global temperatures have actually declined for the past decade, one scientist asks, "Where the heck is global warming? The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." 

Of course that didn’t stop actor Danny Glover for his bizarre explanation of blaming the Haiti Earthquake on global warming.  Glover told GRITtv that it could have happened to any of the Caribbean island nations: "They are all in peril because of global warming." Really??  Maybe we now know the real cause of the Northridge quake in 1994. Then, he lamented the failure of the climate summit in Copenhagen. As a result of that failure, he says, "this is what happened." A cause like this makes some strange bedfellows indeed. 

For good measure, let’s visit a man named James Hansen who may be the Father of the Global Warming/Climate Change debacle because he supposedly raised the issue before Congress in the 80’s. Did you check that—the 80’s. He just published a book called “Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”.  A very provocative title, I must admit.  The end of the world always draws people in.  I always though it might be from nuclear weapons and/or the Anti Christ… but carbon emissions?  

I have four grandchildren and I sleep very soundly at night knowing that they are safe in their beds, warm, fed and loved daily.  What I do worry about is how much they will have to pay in taxes with the huge debt being built up by our President and lawmakers in Congress (federal and state) over their goofy environmental Cap & Trade policy. 

Isn’t it telling that Hansen has been evangelizing for over 25 years with tiny morsels of results generating masses of propaganda and no grandchildren lost to global warming yet? And here is a news flash; God will take care of his creation. 

It’s peculiar that so many people will not trust what they see but will declare absolute truth to an ill-defined philosophy based on a futuristic event.  If you want to talk about conserving energy and finding alternate sources – rather than our basic oil and gas, I’m all ears… and eyes.  I can actually SEE the sun and feel its warmth so I know solar cells will work.  I can look into the LA skyline and actually see a greatly diminished smog cloud from 40 years of effort to curb air pollutants by legislating vehicle emissions in this car- crazy culture we live in.  

What I also see is the disgraceful waste of taxpayers money by our very own Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi,  who commandeered three military airplanes to fly 20 house members ( 14 Democrats, six Republicans), their families and support staff (63 total) to the Copenhagen Climate summit in December. It was estimated there were 101 congress related attendees that booked 321 hotel nights at the five –star Marriott.  Don’t forget meals-- you can bet that they didn’t dine at McDonalds.  I visited Copenhagen this past summer and can tell you it may be the most expensive city in Europe to dine out.  

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)  who attended the summit on his own for just a few hours, and is an ardent detractor of man-made climate change offered  his own assessment of the unholy entourage, "They're going because it's the biggest party of the year. The worst thing that happened there is they ran out of caviar."

Of course, nothing of even minor significance was accomplished. They should have invited Danny Glover. As for Madame Speaker – I’ll quote lawyer Joseph Welch responding to Senator Joe McCarthy during the contentious communists witch-hunts of the 1950’s; “Have you no sense of decency?" Overnight, McCarthy's immense national popularity evaporated. He was ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press.  Wouldn’t it be justice to see “Déjà Vu all over again” (apologies to Yogi Berra) applied to speaker Pelosi.  We won’t hold our breath… but hope these doomsayers will hold theirs. “Hot” air needs to be extinguished before it’s too late for all of us.