Is Man-Made Global Warming Causing This Blistering Summer?
Remember the winter of 2010-11? It was one of the coldest winters on record. It had the global warming deniers all saying “Global Warming my ass!! If we are in a global warming pattern, then why are we having one of the coldest winters in history?” To which the environmentalists responded, “We are in a pattern of climate change. You cannot take a few isolated cold months and say that our climate change warnings have been disproved.”
Well here we are in the middle of one of the hottest driest summers in 50 years. Now look who’s taking an isolated weather incident by wagging its’ collective finger at the deniers, and saying “See!! See!! We told you this would happen. This hotter than average summer PROVES that man made global warming is true.”
Now the reinvigorated radical environmentalist movement hopes to leverage this summer’s heatwave and drought into legislative action on global warming...er, climate change...er, global climate disruption. Now the more liberal government officials and their friends in the media and the entertainment industry, folks such as Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Rosie O’Donnell, Chris Matthews, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and many others in fact, can now again get to make the inherent assumption that man has the power to control the earth’s climate.
The Washington Post has highlighted two of many “geoengineering” schemes” that these environmental Nazi’s have dreamed-up that is designed to control the earth’s climate by building artificial volcanoes and growing plankton in the ocean…. Huh?
Before we allow them to tinker around with such expensive “pie in the sky” experiments (of course using our tax dollars) maybe we should first have them tell us WHAT they consider to be an appropriate global average temperature. Regardless of what the experts decide, they then have to tell us what atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (co2) is necessary to achieve their temperature goal. The disgraced, data tampering, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wants to keep the atmospheric concentration of co2 under 550 parts per million and various literature cites 450 ppm as necessary to “stabilize” the climate.
Why is it that the more liberal a person is more likely they are to believe in this man-made Global Warming theory, and the more conservative a person is, the more skeptical they are of the theory? Of course the liberals believe that they are much more intelligent than the mouth-breathing, knuckle dragging, Neanderthal conservative who is controlled by some huge self-serving corporate big wig.
Many conservatives and libertarians, such as myself, look upon environmentalism as a fanatic religion dedicated to Mother Earth, whose’ believers take the “scientific” data being reported to them on sheer faith that what they hear, and what they read is the truth. Ninty nine percent of those that profess to be an environmentalist do not have the access or knowledge in the operation of the scientific instruments needed to gather the facts for themselves to prove that the global warming theory is true or bogus. They are as dependent upon receiving information on what they perceive to be the truth must come from their “scientist/priest”, just as any other religious denomination is dependent upon what their clerics tell them is the truth. Extremism in any religion, including environmentalism, can be counterproductive, and downright coo-coo.
Fifteen years ago, the Islamic Taliban of Afghanistan, upon strong religious beliefs, blasted apart and destroyed centuries old statues that Buddhists had carved out of a cliff side, because the Taliban determined that these statues represented a pagan religion with non Islamic ideas. The rest of the civilized world stood by in disbelief as the deed was done. Today it is reported that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt seeks to destroy and level the Sphinx and the Pyramids as pagan symbols of a long ago ancient religion. If it comes to this, again the world will stand by and watch in disbelief as the deed is done. The point is that fundamentalist religious fanatics will charge ahead, no matter how self destructive and impracticable their ideas may be.
Today’s American environmentalist movement is not only willing, but fully wishes to sacrifice our standard of living to the altar of their true religion, Mother Earth. During the early Twentieth Century, eastern Oregon’s terrene was as arid as that of Utah or Nevada. Then great dams were built to trap the waters of Oregon’s rivers thus creating the great aquatic reservoirs that allowed for the irrigation of the parched land.. This transformed the land of eastern Oregon allowing for the alteration of arid land into lush productive agricultural land. But to the environmentalist, this transformation was against the laws of their religion of Mother Earth. The natural pattern of Mother Earth’s design had been violated by man, and must be reversed to restore the natural order of things. During the latter years of the twentieth century, the environmentalist religion had gained such political strength, that it demanded that the “unnatural” manmade dams that created the artificial lakes and reservoirs must be removed. In the liberal court systems of Oregon, these dams were easily judged to be an impediment to the salmon that by nature was compelled to return to their natural ancient breeding ground. The dams were dismantled and the rivers once again run unimpeded to the sea. Thus hundreds of thousands of farms and countless towns and cities were allowed to die out for the sake of the natural life span of the salmon. In this environmentalist religion, mankind is considered a cancer on this earth, and anything that is considered as progress, and a benefit to human develop, is under attack from this environmental religion.
This election year of 2012, the environmental religion has grown strong enough to challenge the very existence of the city of San Francisco. On this year’s California ballot there is a referendum to have a dam removed to allow a river to empty into the sea. Eighty five percent of the San Francisco Bay area’s water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Valley reservoir. In 1913 construction started on the 350 foot high O’Shaughnessy Dam that holds back an eight mile long 300 foot deep section of the Tuolumne River. The dam also has a pollution free hydroelectric power system that supplies San Francisco with twenty five percent of its electric power. The dam is unfortunately perched in the sacred Sierra near the fabled Yosemite Valley.
The environmentalist religion wants to turn back the clock on this decision that was made nearly a century ago to flood a granite-walled valley for the benefit of San Francisco and three other Bay Area counties. By demolishing the dam and restoring the valley's meadows and its majestic rock faces, environmentalists yearning to restore the submerged valley will once again be responsible for rolling back progress and creating economic hardships for millions of people, all for the sake that some environmentalist may feast their eyes on something that may provide visual beauty.
Of course there is no one alive today that could attest to the lost visual beauty of Hetch Hetchy Valley, but there are plenty of people around today that can attest to the benefits that the reservoir provides. I would imagine that the very uber-liberal City of San Francisco would be horrified at the prospect of losing their access to a plentiful water source, and they may break ranks with their political brethren. Of course we are talking about left of center San Francisco, and the vote will take place in the fruit ‘n nut land of California, so anything is possible.
Bankrupt California is dead broke from all its touchy, feely progressive programs,and this woodsy vision of restoring The Hetch Hetchy Valley will be enormously expensive. One study estimated that the bill would run between $3 billion and $10 billion and there's no source of money that has been lined up to pay for the demolition and restoration work. Even if San Francisco is wasting Tuolumne River water by not tapping local sources such as rain runoff, wells and recycled water, the Bay area will have to expand recycling efforts as it tools up a brand new multibillion-dollar update of their water supply system.
Watch out Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, Hoover Dam will soon be on their list.
