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Posted on 07/01/2007 5:11:42 AM PDT by rellimpank
There are some who, lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the Earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change which will see temperatures soar, the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels flood our coastal cities -- general devastation on the biblical model -- all because we insist on driving petroleum-fueled private automobiles and using electricity generated by burning coal.
Burning that stuff releases into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon dioxide, you see, a "greenhouse gas" that contributes to the ongoing warming of the planet.
Now, this is almost entirely fantastic nonsense. The planet is currently warming at a rate of perhaps
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But, all that said, let's pretend for a moment we agree that Earth is heating up, as punishment from the Goddess Gaia for our hubris in daring to tame the wilderness, putting in stand-alone houses and sewage lines and Wendy's drive-through windows.
If these Chicken Littles really believed this, what would they be doing? They'd be looking for proven ways to really cool things down, of course.
How about examining the historical record for the approximately 200 years for which we have reliable weather data? Look to see if there was a period when the weather cooled down, all of a sudden, and what caused it.
Google "Year Without a Summer." From April 5 to 15, 1815, Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) blew up, ejecting 40 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash (more than twice as much as the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa) into the upper atmosphere.
Other volcanoes -- La Soufrière on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean in 1812 and Mayon in the Philippines in 1814 -- had already built up a substantial amount of atmospheric dust.
That stuff stayed up there, in the jet stream, for more than a year. Sunlight was reflected off that orbiting cloud of crap and had trouble getting through. The "Year Without a Summer," known colloquially as "Eighteen hundred and froze to death," was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the American Northeast, eastern Canada and even China.
In May, frost killed off most of the crops that had been planted. In June, two large snowstorms in eastern Canada and New England resulted in many human deaths. In July and August, lake and river ice were observed as far south as Pennsylvania.
In Europe, food riots broke out and grain warehouses were looted. A recent BBC documentary tallied up 200,000 deaths.
Clearly, if anyone believes Earth is warming catastrophically and that we need to do something, the only proven solution is to start throwing as much crap into the atmosphere as we possibly can, right now.
Clean nuclear and natural-gas-fired power plants must be shut down and immediately replaced with coal plants burning the softest, dirtiest coal -- peat would be better -- that can be found. "Smog inspections" will take on a new meaning as our cars will be checked regularly to make sure each is pouring out the densest possible cloud of carbon particulates and lifesaving black soot.
Since every little bit counts, we may also have to make tobacco smoking mandatory for everyone above the age of 10.
Now is not a time to hesitate, to refuse to make the minor sacrifice of breathing some slightly less healthful air. Global warming is a crisis, baby! It's time we all set aside our selfish desire to keep our yard furniture free of drifting soot and share the sacrifice! Think globally; act locally. Do your part!
Pollution -- massive, smoky pollution -- is the only answer!
P.S. -- This is actually going to happen, whether we like it or not. The explosion of the Yellowstone caldera, already overdue, will make Tambora look like a kid's sparkler. The real ecological challenge of the coming age will be global cooling.
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We could mirror this volcanic dust effect by setting off a few above ground nuclear explosions. Maybe use the nukes to build a big ditch along the border as sort of a new Panama canal. This would send tons of dust into the atmosphere and help promote a nuclear winter.
At least the global warmists wouldn’t have anything to complain about once a nuclear winter set in.
Yes, nuclear winter! Now I see why Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons. They only want to save mankind from global warming.
Do they ever stop to think that maybe nature decided that the time is up for some of these species and that their interference is outside of the plan?
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Has anyone correlated the periodic returns to glaciation with those sort of massive eruptions? The glacial periods are much longer than the interglacial periods, it's just that we are nearing the end of the current interglacial period). It's hard to see what might drive the periodicity of the eruptions if they are correlated to the "great cool downs", but it might be interesting to determine if such a correlation exists.
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Posted on 07/01/2007 1:09:35 PM EDT by Kitten Festival
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I thought the real cure for global warming was to retire windbag politicians, especially Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
And Teddy.
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