Earth Day Nonsense

Ah, Earth Day as come upon us again. The annual plague of "truth" will spread across the world as we "celebrate" our impending doom. I'm all for this wonderful world we live in and for taking better care of it. There is more we can do and I see progress. What I'm not for is the continued lies spread by the media and many other outlets. I'm sure even my young children's day will include some education on global warming brought to us by the horrible human race.

There will be many poor examples of articles aimed at showing us how we are hurting mother Earth. I will quote from the first one that I ran into - Climate Catastrophe? Here's What the U.S. Could Look Like in 2100.

You've been hearing about the negative impacts of global warming for years. Sometimes your friends nervously joke about it — "Could land in the Rocky Mountains become beachfront property?" Other times you read with worry the news about forest fires, hurricanes, droughts and heat waves. And you wonder, "Is climate disaster already upon us?"

Scientists say the answer is "yes." We are now experiencing the effects of human-caused climate change and, even if we drastically alter our polluting behavior today, we'll continue to see changes over the next two to three decades. This change is irreversible, and researchers predict it may be worse than the depressing situation Al Gore foretold in "An Inconvenient Truth."

By stating "scientists say...we are now experiencing the effects of human-caused climate change" there is more than one overstatement taking place. Sure some scientists will state such but there are others who will state that we are not a major contributing factor in the current climate change taking place. So, 1) not all scientists agree and 2) we are not experiencing human-caused climate change - there is no definitive proof of that.

It is all quite tiring to reiterate, but our contribution to the CO2 in the atmosphere is about 3.2% of total C02 "pumped" up there and less than 0.1 of one percent of the total greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gas is water vapor. Pretty natural stuff, water vapor. In all, nature generates 30 times more C02 than we humans.

The article states that if we reverse course now, we can get over the damage we have done in about 30-40 years. It doesn't say what exactly that means. A total cessation of human generated CO2? Imagine what that would do to our battered economy. It is crazy to think it could be done within that period of time alone. I even question, if we were to pretend we were the cause of global warming, whether or not such a cessation would change anything significantly in such a short period of time (in the grand scheme of things).

Be sure to go through the article and read of all the horrible things that will happen due to global warming. Of course, it would not make sense to note any of the positives of such changes as that would lessen the impact of the article. Some scientists continue to base their predictions on faulty climate models but I do not imagine that will end soon.

I hope everyone's Earth Day celebration is full of good cheer! For such a result, I recommend avoiding all media outlets, keeping your kids at home and maybe planting a tree/flowers, riding your bikes along a scenic trail and/or hiking among God's wonders.