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Posted on 03/10/2008 5:28:25 PM PDT by jdm
In Religion News today, we learn that there’s nothing we can do – except perhaps getting naked and dancing around an Oak tree worshipping Gaia – to save the planet from rapacious capitalists, gas hungry gear heads, electrical power gluttons, and lawnmower fanatics.
Basically, we’re toast:
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.
Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide.
Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.
This is fantastic news – for those who consider industrialized civilization just a crazy interlude in human evolution and that our true calling is to root around with the pigs digging up truffles while at the same time, breaking our backs plowing the back forty with a horse drawn prairie sodbuster.
No, really, 19th century farming can be fun. And for those of you in industries that would be hard hit by this return to yesteryear – which includes just about everybody – have no fear. There will be work enough for all once we get into the spirit of the adventure.
Are you pretty good with animals and don’t mind getting scorched every once and a while? Blacksmithing is your trade then, my man.
I’ve got just two words for you: Wheel Wright. The future is yours. Grab it.
Do you like working with your hands and can lift several hundred pounds all day long? I’m sure there will be plenty of calls for Wagoneers.
Attention pizza delivery drivers. Take a correspondence course in how to drive a stagecoach.
Parents, enroll your child immediately in the Steamfitters Guild.
With trains about ready to make a comeback, lineman and gandy dancers will be in tremendous demand. Maybe we can even bring back the Non Partisan Anti-Chinese League.
Chim-Chiminey, Chim-Chiminey, Chim-Chim-Cheroo - If you need a good job, cleaning chimney’s for you.
I wonder if burning whale oil gives off CO2? Probably a better alternative than burning wood. If I were a young, unattached man, I’d move to Nantucket a go a-whalin’. I’d even have a white whale to pursue.
Of course I’m being facetious. But what I was trying to do was show that there is indeed a sizable, vocal minority of climate change alarmists who are only using the issue of global warming to advance another agenda – political, economic, and social – that is inimical to the free market, injurious of human liberty, and desirous of controlling our lives in minute ways. And what they wish to accomplish is nothing less than the destruction of western industrialized civilization.
The study, which may or may not indicate that there is little we can do to stop from warming the planet, will be seized upon by those who wish to impose draconian “solutions” that would have the effect of severely curtailing industrial activity thus causing massive disruptions in our society. These are people who talk of “sustainable development” in a world with fewer people, fewer, opportunities, and fewer dreams.
They are not a majority of climate change advocates. But not acknowledging that they are present and working to achieve their goals is ignorant.
I don’t know the motives or the history of the scientists who completed the studies mentioned in the post article but I would think that, as with anything else, more study as well as careful peer review of these studies will be necessary before any action should be taken. That might be especially appropriate since one of the authors mentioned in the article – Andreas Schmittner – wrote a paper back in 1997 predicting rising CO2 levels would lead to global cooling in Europe.)
They won’t let you buy large animals. They release methane passing gas. Get used to hauling around your own cart.
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My advice is to quit giving money to preachers who preach more political opinion than Law and Gospel. Tell your eco-evangelist that you are saving your money for an electric car and solar panels on your house. Perhaps he can go into business with Algore and sell carbon credits.
They won’t let you buy large animals. They release methane passing gas
proof is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkohfdnU6Y&feature=related
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