Yes, it is more climahystericy. You know it won’t go away any time soon. Like defeat and retreat, forced health care and checkups for everyone, and soaking the rich-plus crying, whining, and personal attacks when the supporters are asked to debate it-climahystericy is here to stay. Just ask Bill McKibben at the Washington Post
It’s the oldest and most cliched of metaphors, but when it comes to global warming, it’s the only one that really works: We’re in a desperate race. Politics is chasing reality, and the gap between them isn’t closing nearly fast enough.
Consider the news from the real world, the one where change is measured with satellites and thermometers, not focus groups: Arctic ice is melting on an unbelievable scale — an area the size of Britain disappeared each week in late summer as the record for minimum ice cover, set in 2005, was shattered by more than 400,000 square miles, meaning about a 27 percent loss. Forget the Petraeus report — what historians will note about September 2007 is that the Northwest Passage was free of ice for the first time since humans started keeping track.
Well, Bill is right in one regard; hysterical politicians are chasing reality, but the finish line for the two are different. Reality is that Man has a small effect on global warming. Reality is that it has happened naturally many times before, as has cooling, and will happen again.
The panel’s chair, Rajendra Pachauri, offered the planet an absolute deadline: We need to be producing less carbon dioxide — which is to say burning less coal, gas and oil — by 2015 at the latest, and after that we would need "very sharp reductions" or else there is no hope of avoiding an eventual temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius and the accompanying prospect of catastrophe.
Funny how that has happened in the past, including during the time of Man, and we, and the planet, are still here.
It will take a movement to force that kind of change — a movement as urgent, and one to which people are as morally committed and willing to sacrifice, as the civil rights movement was a generation ago. Last spring, I worked with six college students to put together StepItUp07.org. In the course of 12 weeks, with almost no money, we helped put together 1,400 rallies in all 50 states demanding action.
I have to wonder how much carbon and trash those demonstration produced? And what they accomplished, other then making people feel good? Perhaps if they got their buts in gear and instead planted some trees, picked up trash, and other environmental type stuff, they would make a difference, rather then just "feeling good."
Through all the hysteria and the "we need to do somethings"-like pass bills that jack the taxes up big time and have all sorts of demonstrations-the climahysterics miss that there is virtually nothing we can do about natural processes-these people shift the focus from a worthy cause like saving the environment, or at least conservation, in favor of plain silliness. Said silliness is being pushed by two kinds of people-those who are truly socialists/communists and want to do away with capitalism, and those who are looking to get some fame and fortune. Both types have gotten people, mostly liberals, to buy into the whole carbon neutral idiocy.
After 20 years of inaction the race is finally underway. Global warming has a huge head start; the sprint to catch up is the story of our time.
Clinton did what? Wasn’t he president for almost half that time? Anyhow, don’t you just love how the climahysterics keep changing the time period?
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