Posted by
T N McCoy on Friday, March 30, 2007 10:08:38 PM
Another article on Townhall about "global warming", the new LSD trip of the left, has led me to another discussion of my own. Well, I like it anyway.
The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and 1% everything else: water vapor, argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane [mostly from dinosaurs and cows], hydrogen, nitrous oxide [laughing gas], and ozone. Of course, the amounts vary depending on Earthly location---you know: seas, mountains, plains, deserts, areas of hot air bloviation, 20,000 square foot homes, etc. As a matter of fact, I think there's more helium, methane, and nitrous oxide on the left coast---something has to account for all the airheads out there.
Carbon dioxide makes up about .04% of the atmosphere; that's about 4 parts of carbon dioxide per 2.5 million parts of atmospheric mix. Not much is it? So where is all the "man-made" carbon dioxide going? Well, plants and trees take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen to add to that of the oceans [about 32% of the total oxygen is produced by our mermaid friends' home.] So, the more carbon dioxide around, the more plant life we'll have about us, and the more oxygen available to we the living and breathing. The CO2 certainly isn't gumming up the atmosphere all that much. Now, that doesn't sound so bad, Liberals, does it?
The Earth is about 5 billion years old. The last 100 years of civilization [the baddie part per the Liberals] are about 1 fifty millionth of the total. And the big problem in GW we're told has been quite "evident" for about 20 years or so [or right after the dire global cooling predictions.] [Film at eleven.] Next, this 100 years is about the same as fewer than 6 seconds over the course of a year. And the "evident" period would be about 2 seconds over the same period. Holy reality Batman!
By the way, over those 5 billion years, the Earth has rarely had oxygen in the atmosphere. In fact, early on there wasn't any at all. Mother Earth can certainly take care of herself in the atmospheric department, can't she? If all the volcanic activity, earthquakes, falling asteroids and such couldn't hurt her over the eons, I doubt that mankind's puny efforts these days will do much damage in the long run.
So Al Gore thinks the Earth has a temperature and needs a doctor? Well, who could be the doctor to Earth? It has to be a doctor who is oh so much greater than the patient, and as big as Al Gore is, he doesn't fit the bill. Well, I know who fits the bill. But, He hasn't taken any action, has He? Perhaps it's because there's no need to? But then, the Liberals won't acknowledge this doctor anyway. Too bad.
And as for climate forecasting, I don't buy it. Weather forecasters [meteorologists] can't even be accurate more than a few hours in advance as far as I'm concerned. They've had egg on their collective face thousands of times over the years. So how can Liberals be any better at forecasting? Divine Providence? [Oh, I am sorry. There can be no Divine Providence in the the Liberal play book.] Yet, there's no uncertainty about their warnings of the coming dire consequences, that's for sure.
Many years ago, a scientist---Werner Heisenberg---developed what is now known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: "the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant and vice versa."
This is a basic understanding in quantum physics, and "this relationship has profound implications for such fundamental notions as causality and the determination of future behavior of an atomic particle."
So, if the quantum scientists can't determine for sure the future of one particle, how can the Liberals predict the future of trillions upon trillions of particles?
Nah, that's all too rational and logical for the Liberals to deal with. I think I'll go burn coal in the back yard and look for some super-strings for my balloon.