One would have to have had one’s head literally in the sand to have not read or heard about the massive media push this past week to convince the world that global warming is indeed here and that Man is solely responsible. Like the recent global warming in Chicago.
I’ll write up front: global warming may perhaps be occurring; I am not completely convinced. Weather patterns have been changing, yes. But the most important question has not been satisfactorily answered, as far as I am concerned, and that is this:
Is the possibility of “global warming” conclusively Man-Made, or is it a cycle that the earth experiences despite the presence of homo sapiens?
The recent issue with domestic weather reports clearly demonstrates an agenda that is motivated by “political correctness” and, more importantly, by money via the Global Warming Pimps. See my post here on this.
Furthermore, when the push for global warming oddly enough happens to correspond with perceived dissatisfactions of the United States by a number of nations with obvious agendas on any number of topics, then I am even more leery of this massive push for sanctions against the United States.
It should come as no shock that many nations overtly dislike President Bush. He is a man of faith, from Texas, simply spoken, who wears cowboy boots, has the love and support of his military. He is not a member of the Elite Left, has not historically excoriated the military, did not protest the Vietnam war, and has no problem with making a decision no matter the thoughts of those around him or other nations.
The Left, nations above and below the US, those of Europe and our clear enemies have looked and are looking for any hook, any crack, any flaw, in order to bring us down.
I have not yet even addressed the issue of Islam, a religion primarily consisting of those who would adore seeing the absolute dismantling of civilization, modernity and, more importantly, all of Western Civilization. Sharia Law? Yes. Convert or die? Absolutely. We are Islam, we are Borg. You shall be assimilated or killed. The mindlessness of Islamists.
With this in mind, the Kyoto Protocol was signed and ratified by 166 nations, and signed but not ratified by the United States or Australia.
One glaring omission is the mandate to make huge developing countries such as China, India and Brazil come into compliance with Kyoto. They are conspicuously exempt. Imagine that.
And though they have signed, both Canada and Japan have no idea how they’ll be able to comply with the mandate that greenhouse gases and emissions be reduced by 5.2% by the year 2012.
When some scientists lay the blame for the greatest threat of emissions squarely on methane gases from cow belches and farts, each cow allegedly emitting 200 to 400 quarts of methane per day, well, your veracity runs from 100 to 0 with me in nothing flat.
Allow me to make what I call the Logical Extension with regard to America and the Kyoto Protocol:
The Left, much of Europe and certainly our enemies are all about Socialism at best and the redistribution of wealth. Make no mistake: our wealth, as a nation. Your wealth. My wealth. And trust me: I am not a yearly 6-figure guy. But I know, beyond the faintest shadow of any doubt, who best has the proper idea on how to spend the money I make: ME. And no one else.
The Kyoto Protocol is one clear way to ensure the United States “gets its come-uppance.” I’ll dissolve it even further: Losers hate Winners. And the United States is a Winner by most all possible measures — engendering a global host of enemies for that fact alone — not to mention the self-loathing aspect of those nations whose most intimate butts have been saved by the United States.
France, are you getting this?
Apparently not, for the wondrous Jack Chirac has threatened the United States with a carbon tax on American products via the European Union:
But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.
“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”
Trade lawyers have been divided over the legality of a carbon tax, with some saying it would run counter to international trade rules. But Mr. Chirac said other European countries would back it. “I believe we will have all of the European Union,” he said.
Trust me when I write that this is all about the destruction of the United States as a World Power. US companies already have to compete with Third and Fourth World nations with regard to bare bones labor costs; couple this with the billions and billions of dollars required to comply with Kyoto and the entire changing of the American lifestyle — you’d best get used to embracing your Schwinn.
More than at any other time in my life, the United States is under fire from every angle, from most every nation.
And yet we spend-spend-spend your tax dollars on those nations who seek our complete and utter annihilation.
How much more can we take? How much longer can we continue to pay nations to take us down? How much longer can we continue to hit ourselves on the head with a large hammer?
Not much longer, I think.
And, oh yes, the Giveaway Party is now in power. Goody.
BZ
It would be extremely arrogant of us to assume that we are affecting the climate of an entire planet. While it is indeed possible, it STILL has not been proven. How many “experts” were around during the last warming period between ice ages? What kind of documentation did they leave behind for us to reference?
JJ: I’m with you on that, to think we have the temerity to believe we can kill this planet. This may seem incredibly presumptive of me, but I don’t believe we can. In addition, as you so rightly point out, overall, how much documentation do we really have? This warming phase, if it is, hasn’t been occurring over a mere pittance of a few centuries. I would more likely believe we’d need thousands of years to portray a trend. Where is the evidence? When did we actually begin keeping track of weather? A hundred years ago? Two hundred? One grain of sand in the documentation of this planet.
Earth will outlast us all. I was convinced of the strength and tenacity of life when, at my work site, we flooded a low spot with water and it became a small pond. Within a few months we had weeds, then rushes, then cat-tails. We had ducks, egrets, Canadian geese. We had frogs and snakes and then, you’d never guess, somehow we got small mosquito fish.
From what did this all emit? A low spot in the earth flooded with water. It became a miracle of engineering and Life.
BZ
02 04 07
Hey BZ:
Good post! Yeah, I think that the Earth has cycles of weather that are independent of human activity, and we can affect it a bit but I don’t think we can stop an ice age from occurring etc. Who knows? My husband has been building a miniature hovercraft in our garage. Perhaps his styrofoam model will come in handy when Modesto is covered in water:) hehehehehe
Have a great week BZ:)
Hey Mahndisa, good to hear from you! Nah, you should be fine in Modesto; in fact, it should raise your property values when you guys have an ocean view!
BZ
Earth will undoubtedly outlast us all, BZ… there’s no doubt about it, at least not in my mind.
Very good post, by the way. I just love the way the French repay us for saving their ungrateful hides, don’t you? But we never learn; if France needs their sorry butts saved again, America will probably go to their aid. I hope I’m wrong about that!
Like I said @ My Blog,”I’ve not entered the Global Warming debate because frankly, I am not a scientist, nor am I a meteorologist.”
That being said, it may or may not be happening, but the current crap is nothing but political manuervering. Period.
F.Y.I. I think we broke many records here in San Diego for record cold this winter, it’s been freezing. Literally.
The Kyoto Protocol is a socialist scam plain and simple. It was created by a guy named Maurice Strong, who is a Canadian socialist freak, and who was also involved in the Oil for food scam, and a few others. he is still involved in the UN and is still trying to ram this down everyones throat to fulfill an agenda. Global warming is a natural cycle controlled primarily by solar influences. Man only has a minimal effect on anything that happens. Control pollution, yes, but where warming is concerned, you can’t do squat..
Gayle: ah yes, our GOOD friends the French.
Jenn: and isn’t it interesting how global warming seems not, occasionally, to be so warm?
ABF: thanks for the info and yes, it’s about the agenda and the resulting cash — for more STUDIES perhaps?
BZ
By the way, BZ. Shoprat has a post up regarding a woman who decided to prove how brain dead the global warming enthusiasts are by going around asking them to sign a petition. She got hundreds of signatures on a petition to remove all water from the environment! ROTFALMAO! These people are nuts!
To all those of the Far Left: YOU are responsible for everything. YOU are responsible for all the pain, anguish, terror and deaths of ALL cute animals, plants, vegetables. Vegetables and plants are more human than human and they cry when you slice them. How many times do YOU eat vegetables, you pack of KILLERS??
If you ARE a member of the True Left you cannot live with the welling negative emotions within yourself, so you must kill yourself this moment and remove your presence from this planet. That will be one less person to foul Planet Earth with the plague of PEOPLE. Don’t delay! Do this NOW! Small fuzzy animals and houseplants are depending on you!
BZ
BZ, I think I agree with everything on your blog — and that’s unusual for me to agree with someone on so many points. Regarding so-called “climate change,” I would encourage you to visit my blog and check out my post on Chicago’s recent global warming trend. You can find it at http://bobmccarty.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/is-global-warming-a-reality-for-chicago/ . Keep up the good work!