I’m Offended by Global Warming

Alright, already. I’m officially offended!

I figure that’s what it will take to get peoples’ attention.

After all, it only takes one crumudgeon with a grudge to take offense and holiday displays immediately come down. Religion can’t even be hinted at in schools without some small group taking offense and, bam!,Easter egg decorations decorations are gone. The most tennuous allusion to someone’s nationality or heritage needs but to offend some small group and it becomes racism.

So, I am offended by all these politicians jumping on the man-made global warming bandwagon and I expect someone to do something about it until I am no longer offended by the deliberate ignoring of facts that makes everyone involved look like a bunch of flat-earthers.

Point in case — carbon dioxide causes global warming.

This is Al Gore’s main fulcrum that he uses to leverage his Nobel Prize nuttiness. So let’s look at an inconvenient fact or two:

Carbon dioxide constitutes approximately 4 hundredths of one percent of out planet’s atmosphere. Double that amount and it still isn’t one percent. How does this dread gas cause global warming in such small amounts?

None the less, Al Gore says it does. His primary data was derived from ice core samples and found that CO2 historically increased as global warming increased. He concluded that CO2 caused global warming. Could he not as easily concluded that global warming caused increased CO2? It turns out that the figures Gore conveniently used to prove his inconvenient truth were old measurements taken from 1985-2000. They were low resolution measurements. Samples taken for 2000-2003 were high resolution and showed conclusively that the warming periods preceeded the rise of CO2by 800 years! Why? Because during cold periods the oceans absorb CO2 and during warming periods they release it. The 800 years reflect the time the warming trend takes to warm the oceans sufficiently to release CO2.


So why are the politicians all over man-made global warming. Here’s my favorite H.L. Mencken quote:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with a serices of hoblgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

So why CO2? It’s the only gas humankind contributes to the atmosphere.

Is global warming real? Certainly. The main culprit is the sun and its cycles. It’s been happening through history. The Vikings once farmed in Greenland. And guess what? The current cycle of warming has been mild and has already started to abate. That hissing sound you hear is the air escaping from that particular political football. For the next man-made catastrophe watch this space for global cooling.

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12 Responses to I’m Offended by Global Warming

  1. Anonymous says:

    So now along with being a liar about taking a reasoned and fact based stance,you’ve admitted to suffering that neuro-logical disorder that produces that delusion called religion. You know, the mis-firing synapses between the amygdala and the temporal lobes. The more you talk the less qualified you become. Religion,conservative views,what’s next? Closet homosexuality? I guess a homophobic post of confirmation is coming. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.Lol. Don’t worry,liberals aka americans, don’t kill the mentally ill.

  2. Jack Sine says:

    Wow, anomally, how could you read my post on global warming and figure it was about religion? More than 80 percent of the population believes in a Christian God. Are they crazy, too? I don’t belong to an organized or disorganized religion, so stop making assumptions. My mention of religion was to show what the reaction is when anyone declares they are offended by anything. I also mentioned racism. Am I, therefore by your reasoning, a racist? If you have some constructive input on global warming, feel free. But try to stick to the subject.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Gotcha,”More than 80% of our population believes in a christian god” is a ludicrously false statement,and yes religious belief is a mental deficiency. Being offended at holiday decorations does not result in them being taken down. Religious holiday decorations are what’s illegal. Where is your evidence that global warming is abating? Are you offended by scientific study or the neccessity of using hyperbole to get attention to unknown effects of using fossil fuels? Don’t you have any other readers? You’d think someone would come out of the woodwork. I’ll keep pushing buttons for you,but not forever. You pegged yourself as a bigot,but not as yet rascist. I don’t think you should resort to that,the IP will pull you. Any preference in presidential nominees? They all google themselves,might catch a fish or two.

  4. Jack Sine says:

    Dearest Anomoly (Roget: aberrance, abnormally, deviance)Don’t do me any favors. I would prefer it if you ignored my blog, or at least waited till your were back on your meds. If you persist in posting your incomprehensible screeds, I will ignore them. Shoo!

  5. Anonymous says:

    Now now,it seems you’ve missed your dosage. You’re the one putting yourself out as the sacrificial lamb. You have no posters and probably won’t ever. “Running a blog” is a little generous for someone who has no one to “run” and little to say.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Romniac or Huckaboo,not enough reasoning or intelligence to be a Rudy supporter. He’s a lefty to you.

  7. Anonymous says:

    Poor Jack didn’t know that declaring yourself a “concervative” (his spelling) was just like hanging a sign on yourself that states “kick me I’m stupid”. And to think the paper is trying to find another ignoramus willing to commit social suicide! The Journal might as well hire a neo-nazi,they’re about as popular!

  8. Anonymous says:

    What the hell is a “crumudgeon”??

  9. Anonymous says:

    Jack – you say “Why CO2? It’s the only gas humankind contributes to the atmosphere.” Actually, this isn’t quite accurate. Methane, for instance, is a product of agribusiness and landfills, both of which are man-made. And methane is 21 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2. And there are many other gasses put into the atmosphere by human activity which contribute to global warming and which otherwise impact our environment. In particular, many compounds of sulfur are put into the air from activities such as burning coal, and that results in a wide spectrum of pollutants put into the air. For us here in NY, the sulfuric acid which results from burning coal is the key factor in the acid rain which is killing the lakes in the Adirondacks and Catskills, and elsewhere throughout the Northeast.Anyway, it might be a good idea to separate Al Gore from the global warming debate since Gore is such a polarizing character that he detracts from the worthwhile discussion.

  10. Anonymous says:

    Methane is an excellent source of fuel and we should all support it’s capture and use in lieu of natural gas. Jack will undoubtedly refuse the capture of his oral flatulence on the grounds that “tree-huggers” support it. Any attempt to save the enviroment is offensive to him. None-the-less, new septic treatment systems even for residences are coming our way. The current models available are waterless and not very desirable. Our best way of reducing coal use is by reducing electric use. I’ve already replaced fifty filament power suckers with compact flourescents and switched the bulk of my heating and hot water to wood fired. (And Jack,wood burning equals the co2 output of letting the logs rot in the fields.)The next largest appliances are refrigerator and clothes dryers that could possibly run on methane. A gas refrigerator is expensive($3000) but dryers are not.

  11. Anonymous says:

    Huckabee??? HA HA! How embarrassing for you! I think you better change your description to something less demeaning. The right-wing conservative flat-earth view-point isn’t socially acceptable anymore. Reasoned? HA HA!

  12. Anonymous says:

    Hey it’s saturday! No new post about the death of reason in republican politics? I guess Ron Paul is too far left for you and Fox news.

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