Proof that Global Warming is not caused by automobiles.

This was written before 1885 by Samuel Butler in his book The Way of All Flesh

"In those days the snow lay longer and drifted deeper in the lanes than it does now, and the milk was sometimes brought in frozen in winter, and we were taken down into the back kitchen to see it. I suppose there are rectories up and down the country now where the milk comes in frozen sometimes in winter, and the children go down to wonder at it, but I never see any frozen milk in London, so I suppose the winters are warmer than they used to be."

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, published 1903, written between 1870 and 1885. Chapter three.(page number not available in e-version)

I suppose the winters are warmer than they used to be.

The planetary warming trend was observable as early as 1885, before automobiles were available.

I am sick of the whackos claiming that lower emissions will stop global warming. Imagine how they would have sounded when the problem was first noticed, when "emissions" came from four legged horses' @sses.

Methane gas has increased 150% in the atmosphere since the mid 1700’s. (During the same time period, carbon dioxide has increased only 30 %.) A gram of methane gas has more than 25 times as much greenhouse gas impact as a gram carbon dioxide. As many know, flatulence, “farts,” are composed almost entirely of methane gas.

Therefore, Al Gore has developed a new program to combat this obviously increasing peril to our planet, and make a little money for himself at the same time.

It is called Fat Al’s Recycle Technology.

Everyone will be required to wear a “F.A.R.T. meter,” (Cost $75, available only from Al Gore) which will record and automatically transmit to a new government agency (the Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department) the occasion of each fart and the volume thereof.

For an additional fee of $4,500, interested parties can purchase a fart capture device (available only from Al Gore). This 25 pound device can be conveniently worn under the special clothing available also from Al Gore in attractive shades of brown.

When full, the interested consumer can present his fart capture device to Al Gore’s recycling center, where for a fee of $0.10 per fart, the captured farts will be recycled into the US natural gas distribution system. Al Gore also will receive a modest fee of only $0.015 per fart for the energy content of the gas.

The interested consumer will also receive “fart credits” for the number of farts he recycles. These “fart credits” can be traded to other consumers, who elected not to purchase a fart capture device, through Al Gore’s Fart Trading Exchange. Al Gore will extract only a small commission of $0.01 per fart for each trade.

All Consumers will be required to be “fart neutral” by a “Cap and Trade” regulation, administered by the new Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department.

Legislation is being developed as we speak, by the concerned Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and her erstwhile compatriot in the Senate, Harry Reid.

Get ahead of the mandated stampede to control this growing threat to our planet. Get you fart capture device now.

Simply contact Al Gore and follow his instructions.

You are obviously more well versed in the problem than I. I ran across this in my recreational reading and it rang a bell, because everybody has been belittling Gov. Palin's contention that man did not cause global warming.

Surely, the existence of, and emergence from, a little ice age prior to the age of the automobile indicate that there are many other factors at work besides carbon emissions from fossil fuel.

I will dedicate some more time to research, but I can't promise my next scientific finding won't be from Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

Surely, the existence of, and emergence from, a little ice age prior to the age of the automobile indicate that there are many other factors at work besides carbon emissions from fossil fuel.

I'm absolutely with you on this point.

I can't promise my next scientific finding won't be from Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

Hey, Chrichton has more credibility as a scientific source than Algore does. :-)

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