2007
Soap Box Archives
Forte
or Fact part 5
This will be the last in a five part series about my feelings
on global warming. While I don't claim to be any kind of expert
on environmental issues I do have some very deep beliefs on
the subject and wanted to share them with you. And let me say
that I appreciate the discourse from all of you, pro and con.
What prompted this series of articles is the major media's reticence
to give the public the other side of the coin, the side where
prominent scientists refute the global warming theory and give
factual reasons why they do so.
I did, what for me, was a lot of research and after doing so
I am more convinced than ever that global warming is the cause
du jour with the glitterati, many of whom are taking time off
from protecting the rain forest to join Al Gore and his carbon
unit crusaders.
Lest some of you cherry pickers accuse me of plagiarism let
me say here that I used many direct quotes from many different
sources and anything you read here can be verified by a little
internet diligence.
The sad truth about the global warming situation is that the
green side absolutely ignores scientific evidence offered which
is contrary to their opinion. They are determined that we will
swallow their hysteria whether it's true or not.
I am not a technical minded person and don't pretend to understand
all the arguments presented by the global warming crowd, but
I do have a little cowboy logic and the truth is the truth regardless
of which side it comes
from. And until I started digging I didn't realize how many
studies and how much science disagrees with the global warming
proponents.
They're accusing non-believers of accepting flawed science which
is tantamount to the pot and kettle fable.
For instance, the accepted global average statistics used by
the intergovernmental panel on climate change contend that there
has been no ground based warming since 1998 despite an increase
of 15 parts per million,
that¹s four percent, in atmospheric C02.
And, if corrected for non greenhouse influences such as El Nino
and large volcanic eruptions, it shows little if any global
warming since 1979, a period when atmospheric C02 increased
by 55 parts per million, that's 17
percent.
Sixty billion dollars has been spent on research on global warming
since 1990 and has failed to demonstrate any human caused climate
trend, much less a dangerous one.
As far back as 1995 some questionable science was taking place.1995
was designated as the warmest year on record, but did you know
that only 11 months of the year were actually studied and that
scientists estimated the temperatures for the month of December,
not taking into account the downward spike in temperature in
the northern hemisphere and after the complete data was gathered
from satellite readings, it turned out to be an average year
and only the eighth warmest year on record.
The global warming people say that the earth's temperature has
gone up a degree in the last century but what they do not tell
you is that when they started taking temperatures in about 1880,
it was colder than average.
They tell us that we have to learn from the pre industrial tribal
societies but what they don't tell you is that the world health
organization estimates that 5 million infants die every year
from respiratory diseases in third world countries where people
use wood and dung for fuel and that this kind of pollution kills
far more people than all the first world environmental problems
combined.
Folks this thing goes on and on. It's bad enough what the global
warming forces are telling us, but even worse are the things
they are not telling us.
Starting at the top, this is not about global warming. It's
about scaring the people of this planet into frenzy so they
will be willing to accept international controls from such a
bunch of corrupt klutz's as the United Nations.
They want you to pay your hard earned money to buy carbon credits,
something I don't think they even understand. And what do carbon
credits mean? Does it mean if you've got money you can live
any way you want, fly around on
private jets and live in energy guzzling mansions, and if you
don't, you have to ride a bicycle and live in powerless leanto?
Now I'm sure there are people out there who actually live in
fear of global warming and think that it will be what causes
the demise of planet earth but for the most part it's a bunch
of elitist snobs who think they know more
than everybody else, that you¹re not wise enough to know
what's good for you and you need them to run your life.
And if you let them that's exactly what they'll do. They vacillate
between global warming and a new ice age, always anxious to
stir up fear amongst the people they consider to be less intelligent
than they are.
I believe in taking care of the environment. My daddy made his
living off the pine forests of the southeast and when he harvested
timber he took meticulous care of the woods, making sure that
a renewable resource remained a renewable source.
I am all for taking care of the planet and readily acknowledge
that we have some grave environmental problems that need serious
attention, but I believe that global warming is a misdiagnosis.
Our next big problem could well be a plentiful supply of clean
drinking water. I also believe that a lot of stuff we release
into the air is not good, but I don't believe that it's going
to put New York City underwater in the next few decades or that
it will become so hot that we can't produce the things we need
on the earth.
If the earth is going to succumb to global warming it will not
be from carbon emissions from the USA. I thought I had seen
air pollution but when I went to the Orient I found out what
real air pollution is.
Korea has a terrible problem, partially caused by pollution
drifting in from China and China lies under a gray cloud of
pollution so thick that it looks like ground fog.
The Chinese pollution problem will only get worse in the years
to come as they are opening coal burning power plants at an
amazing rate.
I don¹t believe that China will join in any meaningful
effort to clean up the planet earth's atmosphere because the
government is under pressure to produce 25,000,000 that¹s
right, twenty five million new jobs every year.
So Al, perhaps you should learn to speak Mandarin.
More problems in this world are caused by politics than by pollution,
the mad thirst for power, the kind of thirst that causes a foiled
despot to burn the oil wells in Kuwait and discharge thousands
of barrels of raw crude into the Persian Gulf. The kind of power
that breeds the genocidal policies of African dictators who
force poor people to deforest and erode the very land that sustains
them.
The kind of politics that cause a diminutive monster to starve
an entire country and turn North Korea into a black hole of
misery, devoid of trees, used by a desperate population for
cooking and warmth.
It will be global war, not global warming that catastrophically
harms this planet and not even that will be allowed to destroy
the earth as The Creator steps in and puts a stop to it. It's
in The Book.
This past winter a global warming conference had to be cancelled
because of excessive snowfall. Does that tell you something?
Pray for our troops
What do you think?
God bless America
Charlie Daniels
September
7, 2007
