The Global Warming Scam

Your grasp of physics has been demonstrated to be pixel-thin already. Those posts were fun to read.So we can cross that pixel crap right out.The environmentalists are going to Cancun to eat the lobster and shrimp that they can't get anywhere else? Unlike the rest of us poor slobs, who have to go to the supermarket or Red Lobster or the local clam shack... No, wait, that doesn't work. Unlike the hordes of college students and vacationing families who descend on Cancun every year? No, that doesn't work, either.All those wealthy bastards are just dying to go to Mexico on our dime, instead of the French Riviera and Monaco on their own?Right.Well, there goes the shellfish crap.Al Gore is an idiot who flunked out of Divinity School? Well, no, actually he withdrew after one year and switched to law. Of course, he had already completed studies at Harvard with honors and volunteered for service in Vietnam. He went on to serve in Congress as both a rep and a senator, then was elected to the vice-presidency, then the presidency... No, wait, five conservatives on the SCOTUS took care of that last bit, despite his winning the popular vote, by refusing to allow the recount mandated by Florida law.Nonetheless, we can cross out the Al Gore slander crap, which was irrelevant anyway. Still, I'd love to hear how your achievements dwarf his. Feel free to post your vita.After careful sifting you have...

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Global Warming - *science*
Global Warming is about as *scientific* as Al Gore, who flunked out of Vanderbilt Divinity School.

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In point of fact, the hockey stick graph which has made millions of dollars for Al Gore, reflects a basic misrepresentation.

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The increased carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, from ~315 ppm in 1999 to ~370 ppm today in always shown in the finest scale, totally out of relationship to its place in the atmosphere.

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This misrepresentation is made the worse by the fact that anthropogenic carbon dioxide constitutes only 3.4% of the total amount produced.

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Set to scale in the totality of the atmosphere, if anthropogenic carbon dioxide were one pixel, the total carbon dioxide concentration would be 27.81 pixels beginning at 1999, and 29.3 pixels today. 29 pixels is about two lines of this font, from the bottom of this row to the top of the letters above it.

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Now go up an additional 740 pixels, which represents water vapor, argon, and miscellaneous gases. 740 pixels will be about three-fourths of the way up the screen.

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Another 14,476 pixels high will take you through oxygen, ~19% of our atmosphere. That's 14 screens high, just for oxygen.

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Nitrogen, 80% of our atmosphere, is 60,952 pixels high.
61 screens higher.

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Man-made carbon dioxide, I say again, is one pixel high.

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You follow the dictates of Al Gore and *environmentalists* everywhere, particularly those who will be flying to Cancun, Mexico in November, to dine yet again on lobster and shrimp, as they attempt to mold the world into the pawns they wish everyone else to be. Twenty thousand of them went to South America to preach their cynical, dishonest gospel.

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So many went to Malaysia last year that their private jets used up all the space in the airport.

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Videoconference, you say? Mais porquoi, when sappy taxpayers will foot the bill for lovely trips to Cancun, there to scuba dive, eat, drink, and be very merry indeed.

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...nothing. No, wait, there is something there..."cynical, dishonest"Ah. Just so.

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Dost thou prate, rogue?
-Cassio

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Real things always push back.
-William James

Sorry, kid, but your inability to master the simple software of this forum makes your posts nearly unintelligible.The quote system is remarkably simple; all the buttons are right there. Is there some congenital difficulty that blocks your use of it?I could make out this part, though: See how easy that is?If you didn't want to talk about Al Gore's relative intelligence, you shouldn't have brought it up.Yes, you originated this crap, including your assertion of Al Gore's low intelligence and your brilliant understanding of climate science that exceeds that of actual climate scientists. Clearly, you cannot have reached that judgment without having exceeded Al Gore's meager station.So support what you originated: Let's see your vita.You don't have to reveal your name, just your qualifications and achievements. You could begin by comparing your undergraduate record with Gore's cum laude at Harvard. You felt Al Gore's academic record was relevant enough to distort; go ahead, you can lie about yours, too. No one will know. I think you're a high school brat without the stature to wipe Al Gore's ass.

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Dost thou prate, rogue?
-Cassio

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Real things always push back.
-William James

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I offer in exhibit BarackZero's posts on this forum, readily available to you all.I will concede that my remarks on his high school status are speculative, though defensible as measured in their character.But there can be no doubt that he does, indeed, lack the stature to wipe Al Gore's ass.Thank you, friends, and thank you, BarackZero, for this opportunity.

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Dost thou prate, rogue?
-Cassio

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Real things always push back.
-William James

Ah, you're thinking of *AlGore*--the evil anti-Al Gore. That was one of the ur-Park episodes.

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Dost thou prate, rogue?
-Cassio

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Real things always push back.
-William James

Several years ago I started a thread asking why evangelicals were lacking among those concerned about the environment. I think Jazzns started another in my absence.Some weeks (or months, who knows?) later, I had to note the growing interest in environmentalism among young evangelicals, as well as some splintering on the issue at the leadership level.The good news in the video is that it was produced in response to this ongoing turnaround. You will note, near the end, where she expresses dismay that even some of the faithful have been seduced into caring about the environment.I know this video effort, and all the other efforts of her ilk, are dismaying. Nonetheless, I have seen a generational shift among evangelicals, evidenced in my own Bible Belt family in the Midwest.Hope.

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I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.
-J. Mellencamp

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Real things always push back.
-William James

Yes.In an OP from 2005, Message 1--"By their fruits shall ye know them"--I expressed the same puzzlement:

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Why are they so anxious to despoil the earth? If God created this beautiful place and made us stewards of it, why are the Republican-identified Evangelicals/Creationists so ardent about valuing profit over conservation? Why are they so sanguine about the loss of entire species?

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One would think this world would sparkle to them with the sacredness of their Creator, and every creature in it would be precious. Instead, they seem to delight in rolling back environmental protection laws, in proposing higher tolerances for mercury in their air and children, in profit over preservation, in war over peace.

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Did God lard the earth with life so we could gleefully slaughter it?

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A few months later, I had to note and applaud this in Message 34:

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 85 evangelical Christian leaders on Wednesday backed legislation opposed by the White House to cut carbon adioxide emissions, kicking off a campaign to mobilize religious conservatives to combat global warming.

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The group which included mega-church pastors, Christian college presidents, religious broadcasters and writers, also unveiled a full-page advertisement to run in Thursday's New York Times and a television ad it hopes to screen nationally.

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"With God's help, we can stop global warming for our kids, our world and our Lord," the television spot declared.

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So, yeah, it's still bad. But I do think a growing number of young evangelicals are determined to stop killing the planet.There is hope in that.

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I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.
-J. Mellencamp

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Real things always push back.
-William James