In general and specific, I try to look at every issue from all angles, and try to listen to every opinion whether it be one derived from a bribe, a “religious” view, or due diligence and complete study of all facts available.

That being said, every now and then, I get that “ever-gnawing inner doubt” as to whether I am right (Saul Alinsky). To avoid becoming “doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated,” I watch Glenn Beck. I listen to Al Gore. I read Ann Coulter. I endure Nancy Pelosi. Rush. Ed Schultz. Olbermann. Ingraham. Then, something comes along on the internets that actually gives you perspective you didn’t have, and opens your brain up to ideas that you hadn’t thought about.

Lord Christopher Monckton aside, for now - The BBC documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle” is something everyone should see. Now, don’t start the bullet / talking points about ignoring the science, and “denier” bullshit. Seriously. Watch it:

Watch all of it. All 90 minutes or so. It is worth it. Then, weigh it with your other indoctrined thoughts about earth warming, carbon emissions, radiation from the earth, polar bears drowning, sea levels rising several feet in the next hundred years, and, the so far unassailable calculation that humans contribute no more than 4% of the carbon that is in the atmosphere.

Yes, we need to cut fossil fuels altogether. And soon. Yes, oil sands destroy the water, air and earth. Yes, burning oil and gas is destructive and eventually, when we squeeze the last drops of it from the sponge we call the earth, there will be none to damage the environment any more. Yes, coal is dirty and should be replaced with renewable alternative sources of energy.

But, it is plain simple hubris to think that we are changing the world’s temperature so much that we can actually stop or reverse it. Seriously. If we stopped all usage of fossil fuel carbon emitting crap (and ask any climate change / global warming advocate,) it would be 20 years before we could even reduce the earth’s temperature 1 degree celcius. Yes. That’s right.

 This is the first time, as hard as it is to semi-agree with Palin, Inhofe, Beck, Hannity et al, that I think that the lockstep liberals are totally and incoherently full of the Kool-Aid. If they would focus on caps and lay off the trades, there can be real emissions control through the government’s role (disputed) of regulation and taxation. Fucking tax the windfall. There, done.

Maybe the Greenland and Antarctican ice will melt and raise the levels of the oceans. Maybe things will get 5-10 degrees fahrenheit warmer. But, we can’t stop it. The green revolution seems to make us all feel good. Use less toilet paper. Buy a hybrid. Take shorter showers. Go ahead. Make yourself feel real good. It does nothing.

And, here’s the real issue. The biggest carbon footprint is people. The the more we make, the more abuse there is. So, stop fucking. All of you. Stop it. Or, we cap the human being emission and trade any child more than 2 per family to families that can’t or don’t have 2.

Tell me where my logic is wrong. How can you try and cap CO2 while still making more people faster than they are dying? It just does not make sense. Any more than telling Africa they can’t burn coal to advance themselves into the second world. How dare we.

In the end, sure, I could be wrong. But, the threat that if we don’t do something now for our children about climate change we will regret it, is like believing in God because you don’t want to be wrong and still want to go to heaven. That is just plain silly.

Facts are facts. And we can argue over all of the facts. But one thing very few want to address is, if the earth is indeed still warming, we can’t stop it by hedging fossil fuel extraction and use. You are being fooled. Cap and trade creates a derivative floor to continue the Enron scheme to create things to trade that don’t exist. Just like the mortgage bubble.

I used to like Al Gore. Seriously. Stop laughing. I did. He got screwed in 2000. But, the shit he is pulling now is beyond dubious. It is a fucking huge money making machine.

This is funny:

And back to Monckton. Discredited, or rebuked, or just plain a nutball. You decide:

 

 UPDATE: And then, if you are up to it: Global Dimming. You see, the earth is cooling as well. It is warming because of fossil fuels, and it is cooling because of fossil fuels. Wha? Who knew?! Someone, quick, email Albert Gore:

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