Mark Steyn: Feed your Prius, starve a peasant

OC Register ^ | 4.26.08 | The one and only Mark Steyn

[knews_hound]

Last week, Time magazine featured on its cover the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. But with one difference: The flag has been replaced by a tree. The managing editor of Time, Rick Stengel, was very pleased with the lads in graphics for cooking up this cute image and was all over the TV sofas, talking up this ingenious visual shorthand for what he regards as the greatest challenge facing mankind: "How To Win The War On Global Warming."

Where to begin? For the past 10 years, we all have, in fact, been not warming but slightly cooling, which is why the ecowarriors have adopted the all-purpose bogeyman of "climate change." But let's take it that the editors of Time are referring not to the century we live in but the previous one, when there was a measurable rise of temperature of approximately 1 degree. That's the "war": 1 degree.

If the tree-raising is Iwo Jima, a 1-degree increase isn't exactly Pearl Harbor. But Gen. Stengel wants us to engage in pre-emptive war. The editors of Time would be the first to deplore such saber-rattling applied to, say, Iran's nuclear program, but it has become the habit of progressive opinion to appropriate the language of war for everything but actual war.

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[RichInOC]

“How To Win The War On Global Warming.”

Massive nuclear retaliation, of course.

Imagine Nuclear Winter.

[coloradan]

That’s a great poster!

[counterpunch]

Humankind needs to enjoy the break between Ice Ages while it lasts. Civilisation has existed for 10,000 years thanks to the end of the last Ice Age, and it has maybe 15,000 more years left before the next one destroys it.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[uncbob]

Civilisation has existed for 10,000 years thanks to the end of the last Ice Age, and it has maybe 15,000 more years left before the next one destroys it.

You really think things can keep up at the rate we are going for 10-20 years without some human catastrophe --plague--famine--war etc etc

[counterpunch]

No, but it won’t end human civilisation.
The next Ice Age will.
We have 15,000 years left to figure out how to get off the planet, though.

[Niuhuru]

Sometimes I think the world is about to explode. Something good had better happen or civilization is going to have one big nervous breakdown.

[Sherman Logan]

it has maybe 15,000 more years left before the next one destroys it.

Or possibly 50.

[twntaipan]

In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

That needs to be made into a bumper sticker.

[SauronOfMordor]

Civilisation has existed for 10,000 years thanks to the end of the last Ice Age, and it has maybe 15,000 more years left before the next one destroys it.

If in 15K years the future civilization don't have the ability to regulate the Earth's temperature to whatever suits us, then maybe it deserves to be destroyed

[Leisler]

The left didn't care about 10 million dead in the Ukraine under Stalin, another 10 in Soviet Russia, 60 million under Mao, one out of three dead in Cambodia under French educated Pol Pot, Racial Carlson with the DDT ban and 20 million dead in third world, exalted love of drug use and 10’s of millions ruined and ditto homosexuals. What's a few million dead for Global Warming/Climate Change/whatever? Small potatoes for their Gods.

[SamAdams76]

During the last Ice Age, much of North America was covered in sheets of ice over a mile thick. Most of the hills in my New England town were caused by receding glaciers about 15,000 years ago - just an eye blink in the history of earth.

There were many ice ages before that and as history is a guide to predicting the future, there will be many ice ages in our future.

Which makes all the prattling about "global warming" so amusing to me. Just tilting at windmills.

In fact, due to recent sunspot activity, our short term climate outlook actually looks to be cooler over the next decade or so. It is snowing today (April 26) over the upper Midwest. Snow in April and May may be something many North Americans have to get more used to as time goes on which makes this "global warming" scare so much globaloney.

[counterpunch]

Human kind will not achieve the ability to stop plate tectonics, and besides, stopping the flow of the Earth’s magma layer would destroy life on Earth much faster and more thoroughly than the Ice Ages brought on by continental drift.

[Leisler]

SUPORT GLOBAL STARVATION.
BUY ONLY ETHANOL.

[austinaero]

“That needs to be made into a bumper sticker.”
That would be an SUV-sized bumper sticker, eh?
Sweet!!!

[uncbob]

Sometimes I think the world is about to explode. Something good had better happen or civilization is going to have one big nervous breakdown.

No way it can keep up at the present rate --technologically or demographically --something has to blow

[uncbob]

Human kind will not achieve the ability to stop plate tectonics, and besides, stopping the flow of the Earth’s magma layer would destroy life on Earth much faster and more thoroughly than the Ice Ages brought on by continental drift.

And if all those Super Volcanoes in Yellowstone let loose --kiss people goodbye

[PzLdr]

These are the same assclowns who condemn millions of Africans to death by malaria so some cousin of the yellow bellied sapsucker won’t have to worry about DDT. With them, it’s NEVER about people. They think there’s too many of’em anyway. You think they give a rat’s a*s about diverting food to biofuel? Kumbay -flippin’ -ya!