Global Whating?

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Mark Twain (1835–1910). While the exact author of that statement is subject to debate, the arrogance of the line cannot be disputed. Nobody does anything about it because we puny humans are absolutely powerless to do anything about the weather. At best, we can only pray to a much higher power for more clement weather.

The human race is an arrogant bunch. When one views the forces of nature and realizes that we cannot even fully explain them, you then begin to understand just how impotent we mere mortals are. Have we ever been able to cause a volcanic eruption or stop one? Can we even make rain fall to end a drought or stop a rainfall causing flooding? Can we make high or low atmospheric pressure disperse? In all the forces of nature, humankind is merely flotsam.

Why then are we arrogant enough to believe we are causing our planet to warm to the point of disaster? “Scientists” along with the UN climatologists, planetologists, and alarmologists like Al Gore, and maybe one or more shamans with a bone in their noses, would all have us believe that man-made “greenhouse gasses” are causing the planet to grow warmer.

In 2012 they pointed to the alarming loss of Arctic and Antarctic ice – save the Polar Bears -- as proof that we are in a warming period i.e. implicitly caused by greenhouse gasses. Yet, in 2013 the Arctic ice has grown by 60%. Arctic sea ice averaged 2.35 million square miles in August 2013, as compared to the low point of 1.32 million square miles recorded on Sept. 16, 2012, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

I certainly did nothing to cause this change. I burn wood in my fireplace, drive the same two vehicles (one of them diesel), and use my diesel tractor. Although one of my farting horses did die this year, I doubt that had much affect on the climate, though.

According to scientific sources, the Last 10,000 years have seen some 1500 volcanoes on this planet, of which no fewer than 60 erupted from 1990 to 1999. At any moment in time, there are at least 20 eruptions going on worldwide. The gasses constantly belched out by any one of these volcanoes makes that produced by entire 405 freeway at the height of rush hour look like a pigeon passing gas in a hurricane by comparison.

We can do nothing about erupting volcanoes, so the hubris of powerful people dictates that they place controls on whatever they can. Do humans generate components of what they call greenhouse gas? Undeniably, yes. Do we contribute the major portion of the gas? Debatable. Is greenhouse gas causing “global warming?” Not likely, since we still have greenhouse gas and haven’t warmed in 15 years.

Somewhere deep in some cave around 50,000 years ago, a human noticed that his bunions hurt when the weather changed. It was then that climatology was born. While great advancements have been made since then, we still don’t know exactly what causes the phenomenon we call weather. Mainstream scientific research ties much of the cause to changes in solar radiation and our own magnetosphere – two more forces we are impotent to change.

The tirade against man-made greenhouse gas is merely the product of people whose power has led them to the megalomaniacal idea that since they are powerless against the forces of nature, they can at least control the puny forces of man. Humility is a rare element in the halls of power. And yet here they are still able to only talk about the weather.