“Get Yer Carbon Credits Here!”

by Kerry Thomas

January 10, 2008

Al Gore was right about one thing. The debate about global warming is over.

Global Warming has been exposed as a complete hoax. It’s just the latest Socialist scheme to control People’s lives.

Global mean temperatures have risen perhaps 0.6^o C over the past 100 years. But to attribute that insignificant rise in temperatures solely to Mankind is preposterous.

First, we have to assume that temperatures have always been measured accurately. How exact do you suppose the measuring devices were 100 years ago? 200 years ago? 500 years ago? What did we use to measure global temperatures 10,000 years ago?

Next, the use of modern instrumentation to measure temperatures cannot measure the temperature at every location on Earth. Where modern devices are used, many weather measuring locations which were previously rural in nature have become more urbanized (due to urban sprawl), resulting in higher temperatures in those locations. Many remote weather monitoring stations went off-line in the 1990’s, about the same time that hundreds of other weather monitoring stations in the former Soviet Union were also taken off-line.

There has actually been a decrease in mean global temperatures since 1998.

But, but, surely Man is responsible for changes in Earth’s environment, right?

Probably. But what has more of an effect on Earth, Man or the Sun?

The Sun is in the middle of intense changes. Measurements of the Sun’s output have had to be re-calculated, as the old “standard” measurements were inadequate to measure the increased output observed coming from the Sun in recent years. More intense solar storms, massive solar flares, and x-ray bursts with the potential to wipe out all life on earth have all been observed from the Sun in recent years.

The Sun is nearing the end of a 1500-year solar cycle, as well as a 12,000-year solar cycle. The activity now being observed on the Sun hasn’t been seen on Earth in 1500 years. Do you suppose all this increased solar activity might have some impact on Earth?

To make such statements as “Global warming threatens not only our environment, but also our future economy and public health” is preposterous, irresponsible and, frankly, wrong. If “Global Warming” is really such a threat to the environment, somehow I don’t think there will be much of a future economy or public health to worry about.

Yes, the Earth’s climate is changing. But the climate is always changing. To say the planet is warmer today than at any time in history is ridiculous. Warmer? Compared to when? How warm was Earth in the 1930’s? Or in 1000 A.D.? How warm was Earth when dinosaurs roamed the planet?

Meanwhile, the great and glorious United Nations has once and for all identified the cause of Global Warming. According to it’s landmark report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” (4.95 Mb pdf file), the official source of global warming is cows.

Utilization of the resources necessary to develop and maintain the world’s livestock accounts for 9% of the Earth’s emissions of carbon dioxide, 37% of all methane emissions (which has 23 times the effect of CO₂ on global warming) and 65% of the nitrogen dioxide emissions (which has 296 times the effect of CO₂ on global warming).

Blaming carbon dioxide for changes in Earth’s temperatures is another of the Environmentalists’ fallacies. But we can’t dare question such assertions. We’re supposed to take that one on faith, too. After all, there is a “consensus” that has said it is so. So, why, then, are all these “consensus” scientists still taking more than $5 billion in taxpayer money to study the subject?

The United States has not adopted the 1998 Kyoto Protocols for combating Global Warming. That’s good. If 100% of those recommendations were implemented, it would result in a decrease in global temperatures of 0.07^o C over 50 years, or 0.14 ^o C over 100 years. (Remember, all the Global Warming hysteria is over an increase in the Earth’s temperature of 0.6^o C.) But those same recommendations would cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars to implement.

Environmentalists would have you believe the United States is the lone holdout, the only country not to sign the Kyoto Protocols. But there are 155 other countries on Earth that have not signed onto this misguided fiasco.

Still, Environmental politicians and their socialist followers are attempting to by-pass the treaty process, and legislate policies to implement Kyoto’s ridiculous recommendations. Wisconsin’s Safe Climate Act (SB 81 and AB 157) is one of these innocuous-sounding proposals. Who wouldn’t want a safe climate? But, at what cost?

The authors of these proposals know the goals they’re setting (actually, they’re not setting the goals – that’s being left to the DNR to determine later) cannot be achieved with today’s technology. When industry fails to meet the goals, the business won’t get shut down (which would stop the “pollution” and save the world). The “pollution” that threatens Earth’s very survival will continue. Fines will be levied.

Of course, these “polluting” industries could opt to buy “carbon credits.” Those won’t actually reduce the “pollution” but at least they’ll get credit for doing something - that something being lining the pockets of the guys selling the credits.

Somehow, simply fining industry will achieve the same results as implementing all these Earth-saving changes in the way we live our lives.

Surprise, surprise. That’s the real goal of these Environmental proposals. They call it “economic justice.” Punishing big business. Controlling people’s lives. Chipping away at individual Liberty in the name of saving the world.

The whole “Global Warming” hysteria is but the latest in a long line of Socialist schemes designed to get you and me to graciously kneel, shackled, before the Socialist altar. It will only cost you a little piece of your Liberty. And just think of all the children you’ll be saving in the process, as you join this holy cause and help to save the world.

And if you’re gullible enough to buy that one, I have a bridge carbon credits I can sell you, cheap.