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2009
Soap Box Archives Al's Foul Did you ever wonder what would have happened if Al Gore and his cohorts had never told us about global warming? Heck we could have gone a millennium or two and never have known about it. It's a good thing he brought it to our attention. And just imagine... if we didn't know about global warming then Congress would have never gotten the chance to pass their cap and trade bill. I've been hearing dire predictions about the results of global warming for a few years now. The crop failures and the ocean rising. Well evidently it ain't started yet, because I've been back and forth across the country a couple of times this year and the wheat is being harvested out on the plains and it looks like a bumper crop of corn in the Midwest. In my humble opinion, there is more subterfuge than substance in the global warming movement. I think there's more politics than pollution, because if we have a particularly cold winter it's caused by global warming. If there's a particularly warm winter it's caused by global warming. Hurricanes? Global warming. Tornados? Global warming. Coral reefs shrinking? Global warming. Coral reefs growing? Global warming. Pick a problem someone will blame it on global warming. All through the last century people, climate "experts" have vacillated between global warming and a global ice age, between a meltdown and a freeze over, with supposed scientific evidence to support their claims in both directions. The truth of the matter is that it is arrogant for mankind to think he could make the climate heat up or freeze up. Such decisions are made by Earth's Creator and He has been making them since before there was such thing as science and will continue to do so for all eternity, global warming notwithstanding. The Earth has warmed and cooled long before Al Gore became global warming's own Chicken Little, and long before the creation of the SUV and incandescent light bulbs. Global warming/cooling has more to do with that big bright glowing ball of fire in the sky we call the sun and the Earth's orbit, and almost nothing to do with carbon dioxide. Can the pollution problems of the world be vastly improved? Absolutely, but America is not the worst offender by a long shot and until something is done about the nations who are the real offenders it will never happen. Can our oceans and streams be cleaned up? There's no doubt about it. To pour waste and dangerous chemicals into any body of water is insanity and the corporations responsible should be made to clean it up even if it costs them every cent they'll make for the next hundred years. Can the general ecology of the planet be improved? Certainly it can. It's a proven fact that when you cut down all the trees serious soil erosion occurs, the topsoil gets dry and the wind blows it away and the ground becomes unfit to sustain plant life and the same inhabitants who cut down the trees become subject to starvation. I think a sensible ecological movement would be a great thing, but not one founded on the false science of Al Gore or spearheaded by the crazies who burn car dealerships just because they sell SUVs, or the idiots who set things on fire and break the windows out of businesses. If the world powers really wanted to do something about the environment, first of all they should stop lying to us, and they should place the blame where the blame belongs. Everybody wants America to start conforming to strict and silly pollution regulations, regulations that should be aimed at China and the other countries that have a much worse pollution problem than we do. Africa is totally
out of control, this poor nation has been in political upheaval of one
kind or another since it's inception. In Africa it all comes down to
who has the most guns and as long as the world tolerates vicious tyrants
and warlords It's always one side trying to totally annihilate the other with the regular citizens caught in the middle, forced to flee from location to location, cutting down the trees, killing off the game and trying to grow a few food plants on barren ground that will not support life. There are lots of reasons why we have problems -ecological and otherwise- on Planet Earth and the problems are manmade. Global warming just doesn't happen to be one of them. Nice try, Al. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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