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Having grown up during the Cold War, I remember being afraid of the Soviet Union as a boy. If you had asked me in 1983 what the world would be like in 2008, I would have said that we would all be dead from nuclear war, or we would be living like the savages in the Mad Max movies after we ran out of oil.
Anybody remember the Energy Crisis?
Anybody remember "The Day After?"
Anybody remember "The Late, Great Planet Earth?"
Anybody remember Y2K?
Anybody remember the Killer Bees? How these terrible bees were supposed to swarm up from Mexico in the 1980s and wipe us out.

I'm going to throw Global Warming on the slag heap with all the other things I was told to worry about (but never happened).

Anybody remember Captain Kirk?

Global warming is kind of like the Religion of Peace in this way.

If you take time to take a serious look at the subject, you're very likely to notice the hogwashing that's going on.

Perhaps because people who understand scientists understand a few things that undercut the hypothesis of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming:

- The Earth's climate and temperature have varied throughout geological history.

- The sun has more influence on Earth's climate than any human activity.

- Because human effect on climate is miniscule, the effect of altering human behavior would also be miniscule.

- C02 is not a pollutant, but is a by-product of respiration and essential to life on Earth.

There is also the simple matter of common sense.

- The Global Warming Agenda is being pushed primarily by government agencies whose only acceptable solution is the expansion of the power of government agencies, and by corporations with 'carbon credits' to sell who stand to make easy profits selling useless carbon credits.

Anybody remember Captain Kirk?

Posted by: Borg at March 5, 2008 11:48 AM
Yes Borg, I do. Are you now happy that "you have exposed my age to a degree"??? LOL!!!

- C02 is not a pollutant, but is a by-product of respiration and essential to life on Earth.

VtheK... just ask a tree or plant!

Thank you HoosierArmyMom, whoever you may be! Can you recall any other phony "end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" dilemmas I may have forgotten?

No, Borg, I don't remember The Shat-ner as Captain Quirk, except in the movies or reruns. But I do remember T.J. Hooker. The dude has had a hell of a career for a guy who can't act.

The weekend before last, I visited the McDonald Observatory. In the afternoon, the had a great presentation on the Sun. They projected a live TV image of the Sun up on a screen and we were able to see solar activity such as prominences and sun spots. During the talk, the lecturer referred to the "little ice age" and the lack of solar activity during that time period. Afterwards, I approached him and asked him privately (not as a rep of the University of Texas or the McDonald Observatory) what his view on GW was. To my utter astonishment, he said man is causing GW. He saw the shocked look on my face and asked if I thought differently. I referred directly back to his talk, but he seemed unable to make the connection. I thought to myself, "Didn't he listen to the lecture he just gave?!?!?"

That, my friends, is cognitive dissonance.

"That, my friends, is cognitive dissonance."

Or maybe "just plain stupid", Lyle.

For those of you who have forgotten, or were not around when "the world came to an end":
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/

"Can you recall any other phony end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" dilemmas I may have forgotten?" phil

Well phil, (here I go showing my age again!)
"The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and you forgot "V"... rushed home every night to see that one!!! The aliens were winning!

What about the one where Marvin the Martian had this big raygun pointed at earth and Bugs Bunny kept stealing the fuse. Does that count?

When the asteroid hits tomorrow the human race will all be a dim memory. :)

I loved Marvin the Martian! Yes, that has to count because Marvin always had a plan to "destroy the earth"!!! Heck I haven't thought about that in years... thanks for the memories Ted!!!! :-)

ugh...mandy, a real ray of hope you are this evening! Should I prepare to meet my doom or something???? LOL!!!

"V"... rushed home every night to see that one!!! The aliens were winning!

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at March 5, 2008 5:24 PM

Jane Badler... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm heheheheheh

It's also a great example of doublethink.