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By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
June 3, 2006 What is incontrovertible is that there is enough uncertainty about the past and the present to make predicting the future very chancy. Just think about it: If we have insufficient knowledge about the past to understand what occurred, and if we are still unable to understand the present and make short term predictions, it is arrogant to think that we know enough to preduct the future many decades and centuries and millennia into the future. The current global warming hypothesizing is all designed simply to allow the anti-capitalists to advance their agenda, the destruction of corporations, profit motives, and western civilization. It is clear that the major media have a global warming propaganda pushing agenda. One notes that a major new scientific discovery casts serious doubt on the "global warming by volcano" hypothesis that the media continues to push. The real news shows up in in the scientific literature. The propaganda shows up in the Guardian in Great Britain and the Washington Post in the USA, both liberal and printed on dead trees. The media puts anti-capitalist Marxist news front and center, and if it reports the contrary views at all, they are relegated to small print in the back of the newspapers or broadcast at 2AM when nobody is watching cable news. An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago. The Permian-Triassic extinction, as it is known, wiped out most life on land and in the oceans. Researchers have long suspected a space rock might have been involved. Some scientists have blamed volcanic activity or other culprits. --Robert Roy Britt, Space.com, 1 June 2006 The Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time. --Ralph von Frese, Ohio State University, 1 June 2006 Rising global temperatures over the next century could trigger a catastrophe to rival the worst mass extinction in the history of the planet, leading British scientists warned today. Researchers at Bristol University say their studies show that six degrees of global warming was enough to wipe out up to 95% of the species which were alive on earth at the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago. Up to six degrees of warming is now predicted for the next 100 years by United Nations scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), if nothing is done about emissions of greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, the chief cause of global warming. --The Guardian, 19 June 2003 Scientists call it "the Great Dying," a 250 million-year-old catastrophe that wiped out 90 percent of ocean species and 70 percent of land species in the biggest mass extinction in Earth's geologic history. The cause of this cataclysm is a matter of great dispute among paleontologists, but research released yesterday offers new evidence that global warming caused by massive and prolonged volcanic activity may have been the chief culprit. --Guy Gugliotta, The Washington Post, 21 January 2005 Yes indeed, the good old newspaper prints what it wants you to believe, not what is necessarily true. We do know that the Vikings were growing grapes in Greenland long before many SUVs and coal-fired power plants existed. If man didn't cause that global warming, why should we believe he is causing any climate change now? Why not just another natural cycle that the Earth has gone through many times? We know that glaciers then grew massively after that old warm spell. Man didn't cause the cooling, either. And so it MAY be warming a bit now, and strangely, the doomsayers predict that all will be death and destruction because of a warming trend. Uh, gee, if it warms a bit, maybe the Vikings will start planting vineyards on Greenland again! It didn't appear that a warm earth wiped out civilization then. In fact, it may have helped spread civilization. I think that's what we need. More spreading of civilization. Good idea! ------------ 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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