Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Arctic melt accelerating

Arctic melt accelerating! Glaciers breaking up! Polar bears are losing ground! Although there are some reports about the Southern Hemisphere, they are sketchy at best. What about the Antarctic? Polar bears have lived on land before, they will again. Glaciers flow out into the open ocean. They have nothing under them for support. They will break up. Sometimes they will break up in mass floes. It's natural.

 Have you ever read "Chicken Little?" The little chicken runs around telling everyone "The sky is falling!" after being hit on the head with an acorn. There is a recognized psychological malady known as "Chicken Little Syndrome" where a person is convinced of an impending catastrophe based upon faulty information. Conversely, there is also a personality quirk known as the "Foxy Loxy Effect" where someone will build the popular fear of the impending catastrophe, then take advantage of the popular fear for his own gain. Al Gore (Chicken Little) ran around telling everyone "The World is warming!" after noticing a few natural changes. He took the natural warming of the weather in some places, and called it Global Warming, which is simply a redefinition of something else, then he made an industry out of it. He then used the Foxy Loxy effect for his own gain. The fear opened the door for an entire industry of fearmongers to capitalize on Global Warming. If he is so worried about global warming why does he own four mansions that each have a carbon footprint of a small town?

Weather changes. Big deal. The magnetic poles shift, ice ages warm, solar storms rage, atmospheric consistencies change, the earth itself changes, polar glaciers flow out over the ocean and without support will eventually break off, and these all take time to make an effect. When they are felt, no one knows just which one, or which combination was the cause. None of these things point to a specific cause, but why let a good crisis go to waste. Blame it all on man and make a political agenda out of it to control people.

Fresh water freezes below 32°f and salt water freezes below 28.6°f. There is little evidence that temps will rise to anything like that any time soon.

Permafrost is melting? Take a look at what the permafrost layer is made of. It's rotten vegetation. Vegetation doesn't rot when it's frozen. If it's rotten vegetation, or a form of peat, it means that it has melted and refrozen time and again through time. Most of it melts to a certain degree every year.

There are 14.6 million aircraft in the air in any given year over America. They put out more hydro-carbon emmissions than all the cars combined. Should we stop flying?

The best carbon scrubbers are old-growth forests, but the same government that wants to control people and industry to halt global warming is the same government that encourages the stripping of these old-growth stands of trees. They'd be better off using new, fast-growing trees, but they can't see that. Better yet, use stone for buildings that would last a hundred years as opposed to a wood structure that would last 20.
This inefficient government is made of the very people who demanded green power during the 1970's, but they did nothing about it through the past 40 years. Now that they are in power, they want to force someone else to do what they failed to do, and they want to profit from it. Who says capitalism is dead?

The cleanest renewable electricity is hydro-electric power. There are more than 150,000 power-capable dams in America alone, but less than 10% are built for water power. Nuclear power is clean, safe, renewable power as long as it is used in a responsible manner. Don't be so stupid as to build a plant near a techtonic fault. Hydrogen power is not a thing of the future. It is here, now. There are so many ways of making hydrogen, all one has to do it to pick one. There are whole species of algae that release hydrogen as a natural by-product. They can be grown in silo-sized greenhouses where they release hydrogen by the ton. Landfills are being turned into methane generators. They can power large industries or small towns. We just need more. The landfills are there, they just need to be converted.

Plant trees everywhere they will grow. Stop polluting the oceans with chemicals and waste. Develop more efficient air scrubbers to break down carbon dioxide for industries so that no more industrial exhaust is released.

The bottom line is that global warming is an agenda to control people and industry. Otherwise, the focus would be on allowing free invention and development of ways to resolve the issue rather than on blame. The government has no business mandating what is to work. Let people develop their best ways to make things work and leave that alone. Government and politicians should just stay out of it.

We can solve the energy problem, the welfare state, and the unemployment problems all at the same time, and the government won't have to control it all. Planting trees, converting landfills, cleaning up the oceans and the land, developing new efficient technologies opens jobs. There are jobs for all levels, from pushing a broom to designing, manufacturing, and building.

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