THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 8, January 14, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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AMERICA GOES INSANE OVER THE WEATHER
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, THE WEATHER, & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY: THE CLAIM OF POLITICAL
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS, & OTHER ALARMISTS THAT CHANGES IN THE WEATHER ARE
EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT CARBON DIOXIDE & OTHER GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PRODUCED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY
WILL BRING ABOUT CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING, UNLESS SOMETHING IS DONE TO LIMIT
DRASTICALLY THE USE OF ENERGY DERIVED FROM FOSSIL FUELS -- NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITIES IN THE U.S.
CONGRESS & THE DANGER OF THEIR PASSAGE OF LEGISLATION IMPOSING ON INDUSTRY SUCH SEVERE LIMITS ON ENERGY
USE & THEREBY RUINING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
FULL STORY:
It’s official. America is now totally insane over the weather.
Even the Weather Channel that used to simply provide reasonably accurate, shortterm information about the weather is now
telling everyone we’re doomed because global warming is going to destroy the Earth. Why not just rename it the AlGore
Channel?
The weather used to be the concern primarily of farmers and ranchers. It determines how well or not so well crops will grow
and herds will thrive. As America became more urbanized, the rest of the population wanted to know whether to bring an
umbrella or what to wear. Now it is a source of daily anxiety over the fate of the Earth.
To make matters worse, people are being told and actually believing that what they do or do not do can affect the weather in
ways to keep the seas and temperatures from rising. It is no longer the domain of the sun, the oceans, volcanoes, and clouds.
These puny things are nothing compared to what kind of car you drive or what you use to heat your home.
That is a definition of insanity. It is so far removed from reality that Hollywood has to conjure up films showing New York
under miles of snow or socalled documentaries demanding that industry must come to a stop in order to save the Earth.
I suggest we need to save the Earth from the legions of fear mongers who are seeking to control our lives for the crime of
having abundant food, longer life spans, technological and scientific advances, or that permits you to get on a jet and be
anywhere in the world within hours. We take for granted that trucks, the heart’s blood of an economy, will deliver anything
you purchase on Monday by the following Wednesday. Try to imagine our nation without cars?
Let me provide an example of how far we have come since I was a child nearly seventy years ago. We had an icebox, not a
refrigerator. A man would come and provide a big block of ice to keep food cool for a day or so. Air conditioning meant
opening the window and turning on a fan. Washing clothes involved using a washboard and then hanging them out to dry
in the sun. There was no television, no computers, no iPods, and no cell phones. Milk was delivered by a horse-drawn
wagon during World War II because gas was scarce. Polio crippled thousands of people, including then-President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.
Do you really want to return to those “good old days”? In essence, that is exactly what the Global Warming Gestapo wants
to inflict on every American these days.
The single most insipid phrase that any environmentalist or politician says is “climate change,” because they actually
believe humans are responsible for the change and ignore the fact that climate is always in a state of change.
None of us can read a newspaper or a magazine, or turn on the radio or television, without being told that we are just years,
if not months, from the horror of global warming. A few weeks ago, Colorado was digging out from three horrendous
blizzards, the likes of which have not been seen in a lifetime, while the East Coast had temperatures in the 70s.
The definition of weather and climate is “chaos.”
Mother Nature has a message for you: Get out of the way! Here comes a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a tsunami, a hurricane,
a wildfire, or an earthquake. Get out of the way!
The wisest climatologists who study weather trends over hundreds of years have no idea why mini-Ice ages or warming
spells occur and meteorologists with access to the most sophisticated computer models cannot tell you with any certainty
what the weather in your area will be a week from now!
In Congress, the newly empowered Democrats are getting ready to impose an insane program of “caps and credits” on
socalled greenhouse gas emissions that is straight out of the UN’s Kyoto Protocol, which totally exempts China and India,
home to more than two billion of the six billion people on Earth.
Meanwhile, those same greenhouse gases are being emitted globally by millions of livestock that are responsible for 9%
of anthropogenic CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions, 37% of methane emissions, 64% of ammonia emissions, and 65% of
global nitrous oxide.
When you add in the methane and other emissions of the world’s swamps and forests, and all the chemicals emitted by the
world’s active volcanoes, plus the fact that every human on Earth exhales two pounds of CO2 every day, the notion of
crippling every element of the nation’s economy to “control” such things is, well, insane.
Carbon dioxide is not a “pollutant,” no matter how many times U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Senator Barbara
Boxer, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger, and a legion of global warming alarmists say it is. CO2 exists in the
Earth’s atmosphere and, other than the oxygen that keeps us alive, is the single most important part of our environment,
because all vegetation, forests, and crops depend on it.
Is there more of it around? Yes, since 1850, the Earth’s population has increased 600%! Is it a bad thing? No. The Earth
has had periods of far higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and life thrived.
Right now, that eminent body of scientists, the Supreme Court of the United States, is deciding whether CO2 is a pollutant.
That is insane.
Finally, during the last 100 years, the average global temperature has increased less than one degree centigrade. Some
places like the poles remain encased in ice and snow all year. Other places like the deserts remain arid all year.
What we do not lack is a legion of “scientists” who cannot wait to run out in the streets and announce that their research
conclusively proves we are doomed. We have others who run around saying that our weather is unusual or getting worse.
It’s the weather! The weather is always in a state of change.
Are we supposed to return to the days when virgins were thrown into volcanoes or hearts were cut from living bodies in
order to appease the gods that “control” the weather? Or are we all going to fall victim to those in Congress and elsewhere
who insist we ruin our lives in order to achieve “control” over the weather?
It’s the weather! Get over it!
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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