Friday, April 27, 2007

Global Warming

I listen to a great many talk radio hosts, and they all have something in common: They point out with glee when it's unusually cold or cold and raining or cold and snowing because environmentalists are talking about global warming.

Now, I'm no scientist, but I get filled not with glee but with confusion when I hear all these idiots saying that global warming means only "warming" and that snowfalls and icing all over the U.S. in April and that freezing temperatures in all parts of Texas in late spring and that the lowest temperatures recorded in Florida in April in more than 100 years mean that global warming isn't happening. Environmental conditions go haywire as climate changes spread, and that includes unusual warming and unusual cold and unusual bad weather in varying climates. Arctic and Antarctic shelves break up and too much warm weather or rain or cold or drought in various parts of the world don't prove your non-global warming theories, they disprove them. Wake up, American conservatives! You are making us look like idiots to the rest of the world (scientific and otherwise). You're so narcissistic you say humans can't make that big a difference environmentally but are narcissistic enough to say only the United States is blessed by God and is the greatest nation to ever exist, and that it will last beyond Ancient Rome or Tsarist Russia or the Mayans or any other great civilization because of its Christian background and heritage, and only by our U.S. history and Christian ethics and standards can the rest of the world survive in a civilized manner. According to the conservatives who disbelieve all the environmentalist crap: Didn't God create the world, ask us to look out for the earth and our own sacred temples [i.e., our bodies], and ask us to be humble? So, no big deal to all these Christian conservative American capitalist narcissists who say we have no influence on global warming but what about pesticide and bio-hazard poisoning of water resources, endangered species due to construction and drilling and expansion, poor air quality due to exhaust and factory and power-generation pollution, agricultural run off, and deforestation? According to them, God must be letting and even encouraging and supporting the U.S.A., the most "righteous" country in the world, in this our-right-to-everything-but-morals-and-ethics attitude, right? So we're screwing things up with His blessing, or what?

Sunny

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