"Pity The
Fools That Believe in Man-Caused Global Warming"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National
Association of Rural Landowners
and
nationally recognized author on freedom and property rights issues
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Copyright
What a snow
job some corrupt scientists, the arrogant elite, radical
environmentalists, the United Nations and their co-conspirators in the United
States, have perpetrated on the people of this planet in order to convince
a gullible public into believing in the Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale of
man-caused global warming! In the process they have sullied true
science and corrupted the scientific method, maybe beyond repair.
Their specious arguments stretch credulity and are what we call
But to see
anything clearly, you must have a sufficiently broad perspective, accompanied
by hard data, repeatable long-term observations and verifiable facts. If
you are standing and looking at the ground, your perspective and your field of
view are quite limited. If however, you are standing on the top of a
mountain, your perspective broadens exponentially. And thus it is with
the subject of global warming. Without a broader view, it is almost
impossible to know whom or what to believe. So, a short history of the
Earth is in order. The history we present here is reasonably accurate,
based on the collected scientific data over the last 500 years, with not much
argument within the honorable scientific community.
Human
civilization is but a bare 5,000 years old. If you took the entire
life of Planet Earth, some 4.5 billion years and divided that life span
into a 24-hour clock, our puny 5,000 years represents the last tenth
of a second, of the last second of the 86,400 seconds that occur in one 24-hour
period. If you took the age of enlightenment, commonly known as the
Renaissance (14th to the 17th
Centuries) when true science was born, it represents less than
the last 100th of a second of the last second in our 24-hour clock.
During the last 5,000 years the Earth has been relatively quiet, with a few
burps in climate variables, but it hasn't always been that way.
The Earth
has endured the effect of massive sunspots, reversing poles, shifting magnetic
fields, drifting continents, asteroid and comet collisions and ice ages, in its
4.5 billion-year history. It has experienced the wondrous 165
million-year dinosaur experiment. Approximately six hundred million years
ago, the "Cambrian explosion" occurred, when life almost magically
erupted, emerged and evolved at a pace never before seen. Some scientists
have contributed this explosion of life to a sudden increase in atmospheric
oxygen.
Over its
lifetime the Earth spun, tilted, heaved, shifted its orbit, drastically
changed, expelled poison gases, ash and molten lava, grew hot and then
cold. Continents, floating on an underground sea of molten
magma, drifted first toward each other (Pangea) and then away. Polar ice caps and
glaciers melted and sea levels rose and then lowered. New evidence
has come to light that the entire Earth was one big ball of ice at one
time in its long and violent history.
A little
more recently, about 12,000 years ago, one-third of the Earth's surface was
covered in a layer of ice more than one mile thick. During that ice age,
which lasted longer than civilized man has lived on Earth, there were no
animals, plants or insects that could survive in this
harsh, frozen environment. But life on Earth still survived in
other places less-hostile. The ultimate thaw and the rushing torrent
carved deep gouges and massive channels in the Earth's surface. It
created riverbeds and dry falls and lakes and inland seas and other features in
the Earth's crust, not there before. Now that was global warming on a
grand scale and humans hadn't even come out of their caves yet.
Whole
forests grew and then died out. Mountains rose out of the bowels of the
Earth, pushed up by continents in collision and then flattened back into the
crust. Rivers changed direction. Monster lakes were formed.
Giant meteors struck the Earth at galactic speeds, carving massive holes in the
crust and sending continent-size clouds of sunlight-dimming dust into the
atmosphere. The atmosphere became opaque and cut off the life-giving
sunlight, rendering lifeless enormous parts of the planet. Millions of
species of plants and animals evolved, survived, reproduced and then died out,
to be replaced by entirely different species of plants and animals.
Had the dinosaurs not gone extinct, it has been posited that mammals would have
never evolved in their current form, including humans.
However,
major changes seldom occurred in cataclysmic events. They almost always
took place agonizingly slowly, over eons of time, through the tedious,
grinding, random, chaotic, disorganized process of natural evolution and
natural selection. The variables were almost infinite and still are.
And today,
those same agonizingly slow processes are at work. We (humans) are an integral part of those
processes but we will have little or no effect on any final outcome.
Those who tell you so are lying. We will but only tickle the grander
elements such as the sun, the moon and the Earth itself, none of which is
predictable, much less measurable to the degree necessary for accurate
predictions over long periods of time. Our only avenue for survival is to
get out of the way, if we can. The whole idea that man-generated CO2 is
causing run-away global warming, when atmospheric CO2 represents a small
fraction of so-called greenhouse gases and man's contribution to atmospheric
CO2 is a miniscule fraction of naturally occurring CO2, would
be laughable, if it wasn't that evil men were exploiting it for evil
purposes.
A few
spewing volcanoes or an episode of sunspots can totally invalidate any computer
models. Just look at weather predictions. Any prediction is good
for about two hours and that is why the environmentalists' models were
predicting an ice age 20 years ago and now they are predicting global
warming. Any credible scientist will tell you that the greater the number
of variables in a non-linear dynamic system (such
as the weather) render long-range predictions virtually meaningless
the moment they are spit out of the computer. What has been done in the
name of man-caused global warming, is an insult to true science. It
is fueled by dirty, agenda-driven money, a corrupt ideology and the
lust for global power.
The
universe, our solar system and even our Earth are violent, dangerous places to
humans and other life forms and always have been. Just ask the
dinosaurs. So far, we have just been lucky. A close-by (in galactic terms) supernova in the
spiral arm of the Milky Way, in which our solar system resides, could flood the
sun and planets with massive amounts of deadly radiation and render Earth
lifeless and barren in a virtual geologic instant. If the sun
changed its energy output by a significant fraction, all life on Earth as we
know it, could cease. An errant asteroid or
comet could cross the Earth's orbit and the resulting collision could dramatically
change the pattern of life, or terminate it altogether.
Environmentalists
cry "wolf" on very little data and way-too-short time periods to come
up with so-called accurate predictions, as they have with man-caused global
warming. Unfortunately, environmentalism has become a cult of mindless
followers with a distorted vision of how humans and the Earth should relate to
each other. Earth gets the highest priorities — over people — in spite of
true science. In reality, humans are but a part of the evolutionary and
natural processes of Earth and those processes, not environmentalists or
governments, will determine whether we, as an intelligent species,
will survive or die out. This is why their man-caused, global-warming
theory is an unmitigated farce and this is why that any very expensive attempts to control man-generated CO2 is an
unprecedented fraud, with dire consequences for the global economy.
We must
always be vigilant against the never-ending threat of governments and
special-interest groups peddling crises with propaganda, hype, distortions and
lies, because behind each crisis is a hidden agenda and in the end their
hidden agenda has more to do with control of the masses and the transfer of
wealth. They only use pseudo science as a means to an evil end.
Shall it ever be thus.
Ron Ewart, President
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS