Saving the environment..
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:38 pm
For all of you out there in America and across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, in the name of "Climate Change" or "Global Warming", some really bad news has occurred that will be very painful for you to process. But here it is anyway.
Are you sitting down?
Okay, here's the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash a week ago, has, to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.
I know, I know.... (have a group hug)...it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up til midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of Yosemite, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs (which last no longer anyway) ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just one week.
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the past week totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon.
And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia because you demanded business spend so much to stop pollution, well those jobs we need now are gone (even though America has already engineered 60% less pollution and cleaner air here since 1970). It’s funny really -- per ton of production, the U.S. is already the least polluting society on earth . . . and we’re moving our jobs to places that pollute exponentially more, simply because some elites here feel guilty. Well, that must seem really worthwhile now.
And, to top it off, research indicates rising CO2 does not cause rising temperatures. In fact, it’s the other way round. Rising temperatures cause rising CO2.
I'm so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.
Frankly, I’m anxious to get back to the things we can do something about – clean water, clean air and managing forests to produce and save wood. We were progressing pretty well with that before you came along to waste our time and money scaring people and blaming everything on “Global Warming”.
So, grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and have a nice day
