That global warming really has changed things since I was a young whipper-snapper. ;^)
Posted on 04/26/2008 7:02:37 AM PDT by 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 But with one difference: The flag has been replaced by a tree.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.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
In their 1975 book The Age of Napoleon, Will and Ariel Durant argue that the Reign of Terror during the French revolution was sparked, in part, by price controls.
The economy itself was a battlefield. The price controls established on May 4 and September 29 [1793] were being defeated by the ingenuity of greed. The urban poor approved the maxima; the peasants and the merchants opposed them, and increasingly refused to grow or distribute the price-limited foods; the city stores, receiving less and less produce from market or field, could satisfy only the foremost few in the queues that daily formed at their doors. Fear of famine ran through Paris and the towns....
On August 30 a deputy pronounced the magic word: Let Terror be the order of the day. On September 5 a crowd from the sections, calling for “war on tyrants, hoarders, and aristocrats,” marched on the headquarters of the Commune in the Hotel de Ville. The mayor, Jean-Guillaume Pache, and the city procurator, Pierre Chaumette, went with their delegation to the Convention and voiced their demand for a revolutionary army to tour France with a portable guillotine, arrest every Girondin, and compel every peasant to surrender his hoarded produce or be executed on the spot [pp. 62-63].
To put things in perspective, think back to how things were 200 years ago.
Ice ages seem to be brought on more by changes to the solar output than by continental drift (which happens over periods of 10's of millions of years).
I was thinking more of our having the ability to put up lots of orbiting mirrors, so as to be able to shade or increase illumination of desired spots at will
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Algor and the left: “Burn food, not oil.”
There’s no greater way to control people than to control their food supply. Global warming is about socialization of society.
Unfortunately, you have a point. :(
And the environuts, even at their best(?), are prime examples of the "I've got mine -- screw you!" philosophy.
Steyn at his best. And Steyn at his best is as good as it gets, and usually better than we deserve.
Really, no one turns a phrase quite like Steyn.
And directly and indirectly to congressmen and senators to vote against drilling, against nuke power, against coal...
Buying much of Congress would cost the Saudis less than the price of a squadron of F-15s
Changes in solar activity cannot bring on an Ice Age. They occur from the continents shifting to the point of disrupting the flow of warm ocean currents.
But look, human should not be meddling with natural systems, be it the free market or global climate. There is nothing humans can do better than nature. Sticking a bunch of mirrors up in orbit would be a massive initiative, and who exactly would control these mirrors? Would you trust the Russians or Chinese to do it? Would they trust us?
Are you proposing a World Government run by scientists and technocrats?
Your whole train of thought here is really quite dangerous and misguided, and honestly, I hate to have to FReep you out and all, but yes... quite anti-conservative, too.
There’s no greater way to control people than to control their food supply. Global warming is about socialization of society.Global Warming™ is about re-establishing an elite ruling class. Make fuel too expensive for the common man will once again no longer have the ability to travel. Control the food supply so they can control populations, create famines for those who are less desirable.
Is that your own? It’s excellent — I’m tempted to memorize it and spout it whenever applicable. (Of course, I’m in MA — maybe I’d better just tape it!)
Mark Steyn is one of very few that is willing to tell the truth about so many PC/Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/Marxist ideas of what is right and what is wrong with the world.
After all they are just pure hearted altruists who just want what is “best†for Mother Nature. Plus they have massive amounts of cash given them by unknown "donors" to lobby for their cause. Since the end result of their political lobby is Govt action to prevent any development of domestic energy resource and thus maintain OPEC's near monopoly on new Oil production, the Greens are the Arabs best friends.
The "environmentalists"; would not even need to know where the money was coming from since the success of the Enviormentalist political cause has the unintended consequence of keeping the West depended on ME Oil.
That global warming really has changed things since I was a young whipper-snapper. ;^)
(Bump!) ;-)
The figures I get on speed of continental drift has it being 1 to 10 cm/year, depending on the plate. Even at 10 cm/year, that's just 10 km per 100K years. Recent ice ages have been following a 100K-150K year period. Continental drift cannot be a significant factor on that time scale
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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