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July 14, 2007

Global Warming Alert For New York!

      

Having lived through other bogus crises (killer bees, Y2K, global cooling), people haven't gone into enough of a panic over global warming to turn over the last of our liberties to mendacious bureauweenies, so a panel of experts has released a new report intended to terrify residents of the Northeast into cowering credulity.

If the Northeast (Pennsylvania through Maine) were its own country, it would rank seventh in the world in the emissions that we are now asked to believe control the weather. Situated square in the middle of the region, New Yorkers are in for the following if they do not curtail their carbon-creating ways:

• The Battery, Long Island, and Sound shore coastlines underwater!
• Temperatures 10°F hotter within 100 years!
• No more skiing!
• No more lobsters off Long Island!
• Summers as sultry as Georgia's!
• More West Nile virus!
• Increased asthma!
• Increased evaporation from reservoirs!

In the unlikely event the climate really does warm that much, there would be many beneficial results. But even these can be spun into problems. For example, a longer growing season won't really help farmers, because the shorter winters would suppress fewer insects.

Funny, I thought it was pesticides that suppressed insects. But we don't want to get envirowackos started on pesticides.

What do the "experts" want from us, in order to forestall all these catastrophes? Simple: to be scared enough to go along with whatever bureaucrats legislate, no matter how much it costs, no matter how much it curtails our individual liberties, no matter how it cramps our lifestyles, no matter its effect on employment and our standard of living.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at July 14, 2007 10:11 AM