Doom and Gloom

I took this photo quite a few years ago while driving through the prairie provinces. It exemplifies bareness, desolation, and abandonment, those things we are soon to experience if we believe a select group of environmentalists, who met in Cape Town South Africa over the weekend. We have not heard much about global warming due the overwhelming and overriding issue of global financial meltdown. But they are still at it, conjuring up horrific scenarios if we do not 'do something' in the next few years. The ice will melt, the sea levels will rise, there will be mass migrations, and the result will be unending war. I am not making this stuff up. What is even more strange is that we, as a society can prevent it! All we have to do is hop on our bicycles and insulate our homes. Yes, reduce your 'carbon footprint' you evil humans.
Global warming or cooling is easily measured and verified or disproven. What is not verifiable is whether these changes which occur are anthropogenic. The much larger body of science is now saying that it is not. It is no longer believed that carbon dioxide is a green house gas. It is no longer believed that the amount we humans put into the atmosphere is significant enough to make a difference in any event. The geologic record is proving that increased gases in the atmosphere follow the warming trend and do not precede it. The study of sunspots has revealed that spot activity is at a significant low right now and it is well known that there is a direct correlation between this activity and our weather. Years from now we will look back at this nonsense as one of man's more idiotic attempts at controlling something that is not in his control at all. So let us all do what we can to keep our environment clean, but leave the weather to God.