Dirt people are becoming hysterical

July 22, 2008

 

This whole global warming thing is becoming hysterical – in both the funny variety and the out-of-your-mind kind.  The Democrats are calling for their delegates to buy carbon offsets in order to cleanse themselves from the guilt of polluting so much in order to select Barack Obama as their party’s nominee.

 

The Massachusetts delegation is going to pay $15 apiece to a company called LiveCooler.  In turn, LiveCooler is going to buy some compact fluorescent light bulbs for the low-income community.  They say these bulbs will more than offset the 64 tons of carbon they’ll be spewing into the air during the course of their trip. 

 

Am I the only one who sees this as totally nuts?  In their world, you get to pollute all you want to as long as you pay somebody else for it.  It’s like paying litter offsets.  You get to throw as much trash out your window as long as you give money to some green company.  Or, daddy offsets.  You don’t have to spend time with your family.  Just pay someone else to do it. 

 

How about these people stay home if they feel so guilty about their so-called “carbon footprint?”  The truth is, most of these dirt people are bigger polluters than the rest of us so they have to do something to assuage the guilt.

 

Meanwhile, Spotted Al Gore is calling for “moon shot” urgency to rid ourselves of carbon electricity and make our country “carbon-free.”  When he says “carbon-free” he’s talking about energy that uses no carbon dioxide, the harmless gas that we emit with each breath and plants use to make oxygen.

 

I have no problem with setting goals to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, as long as those goals aren’t mandated by the government.  The ethanol debacle should be enough for any rational human being to see that government mandates only make matters worse. 

 

Of course, in order to achieve the goal of 100 percent carbon-free energy, Gore suggested a “carbon tax” on everything and everybody who uses carbon dioxide.  Such a notion is not only ridiculous, it’s totally unnecessary.  Carbon dioxide is not the problem.  It’s smog we’re worried about.  Smog is not carbon dioxide.

 

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr has jumped on Gore’s “moon shot” bandwagon, praising the former vice president for bringing the issue to the forefront.  Barr has no chance of winning the White House, of course, but it’s a bit disconcerting that even third-party candidates are just as nuts as the major two when it comes to this whole global warming fantasy.  We’re looking to third parties for some sanity, not the same old lines we’re getting from the Big Two.

 

By the way, when Gore made his “moon shot” speech in Washington, DC, temperatures were well below the record high for the day that was set in 1980.  In fact, a check of the weather history for that week in Washington shows the record highs were mostly in the 1920s and ‘30s with a couple in the 1800s.  Nobody was freaking out then because it was hot.  In fact, the same four temperature tracking stations Gore cites in his crock-umentary all show that we’ve actually been cooling since 1998.

 

What reporters should have been asking Gore was if we’re going to tax the American people and spend all this money on his lofty goal, where’s the evidence that we have a problem?  No one asked.  Therein lies the problem.  Too many people in the media are now afraid to question Gore’s absolutes.  Now even the Libertarians have sold out.  God help us all.