The Planet is Burning!
25/06/08 02:32 PM
Or, maybe not. But if it is, I am dead certain that
it is not my fault. The planet may be warming, I
happen to think that this is a good thing. I often
see a photo from the Glacial Highway in the Rockies
which shows a sign post which says that, (sic)”This
glacier was at this point in 1954” or some other
silly time frame. Of course the background shows the
current glacier location to be a couple of thousand
feet further up the valley. Proof positive, many say,
that the ice sheet is retreating and we are all going
to die.
I am tempted to put a sign on my front lawn which says, “The Glacier was at this point 17,000 years ago! Repent!” All of North America was under ice less then 17,000 years ago. A blink in geologic time frames. When I think of this fact, I feel good about warmer weather. I don’t feel responsible for it, but I feel happy that it is warmer today then it was “then”.
A knucklehead of the first order is appearing this week before the US Congress making grand statements about how we are all going to die from the heat unless we listen to him and floating the idea that any corporate oil types and/or political leaders who do not listen to him should be placed in jail.
Mr. James Hansen ( a NASA scientist, which is kind of scary) is appearing on or nearly on the 20th anniversary of his historic (in his mind) first appearance before Congress wherein he claims that he was the very first to blow the whistle of despair by telling us that the earth is getting warmer and (you guessed it) we were all going to die.
To help you put this pinhead’s credibility in perspective, I have cadged this nifty chart from the wonderful Small Dead Animals blog which shows just how much the planet has warmed up since Mr. Hansen’s first alarming statements.
I hope it is both self explanatory and that it has a calming effect on your anxiety quotient. Lord knows we could all use any respite from the caterwalling din that we hear on a daily basis.
So, the good news is that not only is this mythical warming not happening, it is not your fault either.
More on this in our next post.
I am tempted to put a sign on my front lawn which says, “The Glacier was at this point 17,000 years ago! Repent!” All of North America was under ice less then 17,000 years ago. A blink in geologic time frames. When I think of this fact, I feel good about warmer weather. I don’t feel responsible for it, but I feel happy that it is warmer today then it was “then”.
A knucklehead of the first order is appearing this week before the US Congress making grand statements about how we are all going to die from the heat unless we listen to him and floating the idea that any corporate oil types and/or political leaders who do not listen to him should be placed in jail.
Mr. James Hansen ( a NASA scientist, which is kind of scary) is appearing on or nearly on the 20th anniversary of his historic (in his mind) first appearance before Congress wherein he claims that he was the very first to blow the whistle of despair by telling us that the earth is getting warmer and (you guessed it) we were all going to die.
To help you put this pinhead’s credibility in perspective, I have cadged this nifty chart from the wonderful Small Dead Animals blog which shows just how much the planet has warmed up since Mr. Hansen’s first alarming statements.
I hope it is both self explanatory and that it has a calming effect on your anxiety quotient. Lord knows we could all use any respite from the caterwalling din that we hear on a daily basis.
So, the good news is that not only is this mythical warming not happening, it is not your fault either.
More on this in our next post.
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