Religion of Global Warming

All to often we present information in a one sided indoctrinational manner excluding other thoughts or perspectives on an issue, and we call it education. This paper is intended to offer a view other than the religion of global warming, and the we are destroying the planet crowd. The planet would be a perfect place if there just weren't any people around.

In the words of the late comedian George Carlin here are some points to ponder.

"The country is full of them, people walking around worried about everything. They are worried about the air, water, soil, worried about insecticide, pesticides, food additives, radon gas, carcinogens', worried about asbestos, worried about saving endangered species. Saving endangered species is one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. Way over 90% of the species who ever lived on this planet are gone, disappeared. They"re extinct, we didn't kill them all." "We are so self important. Every body's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whale, save the snail. The greatest arrogance of them all is save the planet. I'm tired of earth day and these self righteous environmentalist, these white bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there are not enough bike paths. People trying to make the world a safe place for their Volvo's." "The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We have been here what, 100,000 maybe 200,000 years. We have been engaged in heavy industry for what a little over 200 years. Two-hundred years verses four and a half billion. We have the conceit to think that somehow we are a threat. We are going to destroy this little blue green ball that is floating around the sun. The planet has been through all kinds of things much worse than us. It's been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, world wide floods, tidal waves, world wide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think that some plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference. The planet isn't going anywhere, the planet is fine. The planet will one day shake us off like a bad case of the fleas. If you want to know how the planet is doing ask those people in Pompeii who are frozen into position from volcanic ash if they feel like a threat to the planet this week."

All of us should be good stewards of the earth and conserve when possible and definitely not trash the place with plastic bags and aluminium cans. We also have a duty to act in reasonable and intelligent ways and not to glob onto the next slogan or bumper sticker that comes down the road. Science by consensus is not science, but instead junk science and we are bombarded by it on a daily basis.

A. C. Smithson