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By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
Apr. 19, 2006 I've written here about memes, the theory of ideas as infectious agents. I won't take the time to reiterate. The global warming meme is indeed a very infectious mental virus, but that doesn't make it true. It is easy to sell. People, especially those of the liberal mindset, more disposed to accept emotional arguments than to dig deep into mountains of fact and apply cold, rigorous logic, are easily sold on the catastrophe du jour--or, in the case of global warming, the catastrophe du decade. One could easily imagine idealistic folk watching Al Gore rant and viewing slides of a few glaciers' melting and listening to doomsday predictions become quite emotional and convinced that "we have to do something." "We have to do something" is the cry of the loony bird when it isn't clear that anything needs to be done and it isn't clear what should be done and it isn't clear that anything at all COULD be done. While it is true that carbon dioxide has increased, and while it is even possible that human beings' activity might have contributed to this rise, it is not at all clear that this has anything to do with global warming. Solar activity fluctuations appears to be a much more prominent factor than previously thought and it is certain that Exxon and Mobil and GM and Ford have had absolutely no affect on the Sun's energy output. Studies on Mars show that planet warming also, and though we have sent a Mars rover there, it is not emitting enough exhaust gases to warm the whole planet. Blaming a solar-system-wide warming phenomenon on human activity on this one planet is ridiculous. Think about it. Al Gore's claims that 2005 was the hottest on record is itself clearly wrong. One could pick and choose various LOCAL areas to show abnormal heat or abnormal cold, but the global temperature average has been declining since 1998 per recent data. Taking photographs of a melting glacier may infect some susceptible minds with the global warming meme, but then one could go toanother glacier, those in western Norway for example, and take pictures of their expansion. One could note that measurements of Greenland's central glacier areas show thickening, and the same of the ice fields of parts Antarctica, though some other areas are melting. But then we are not to be fooled into thinking that LOCAL changes mean GLOBAL WARMING. Also one could, if logical, note that the global warming dope pushers have created a very clever set of scenarios where warming, cooling, hot weather, ice ages, drought, floods--EVERYTHING!--can be blamed on global warming. Clearly if ANYTHING happens, then, they blame it on global warming. I recall the movie where the Hollywood propagandists showed the country freezing under blankets of snow and ice and of course blamed it on global warming! Isn't that clever of them? What is quite clear now is that only those people who have limited knowledge and limited logical abilities buy the global warming THEORY. Those scientists who have objectivity are clearly saying, with one loud voice, "WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE TO MAKE REASONABLE PREDICTIONS!" So, then, would anyone define as "moral and ethical" the mad stampede of global warming lemmings over the theoretical cliff? Is it "moral and ethical" to disregard scientific theory and siply jump on the Marxist, anti-corporate, anti-American, anti-Western civilization bandwagon? References supplied on request. ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: Physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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