| Warnings From the Ice
March 20, 2001 This evening Paula S. Apsell and her crew of merry socialist PBS pirates used 90% of a NOVA program that completely opposed their constant global warming bleat to defend their constant global warming bleat. Showing graphs that proved the natural periodic comings and goings of ice ages and interglacial warm times like the one we now live in, they pointed to dramatic climatic spikes that occurred when world temperatures rose to a certain level. These spikes caused the world climate to bounce between very cold and very warm, then disappeared as the planet went into another long ice age. Watching a skinny, bearded scientist on the Antarctic ice speaking about the danger of man-caused global warming actuating a trigger that would cause these climate spikes, and so another ice age, I was reminded of the last report by a famous American spiritualist the day before October 24th, 1929. This woman, whose predictions about the stock market going up had gained her national attention, and a newsletter audience of perhaps a hundred thousand, said, on October 23rd, 1929 that the market was going to hit the sky. Her subscription list shrunk substantially the next day. She was, in effect, frozen out of the market. This scientist, the hippie on the Antarctic Western Ice Shelf, most of which melts each year, assured his grant money for the next year by mouthing the party line. Man with his awful modern lifestyle, he said, may be dooming us all. All the viewer was left with was the alternative to a modern lifestyle -- living in a grass hut heated by burning dried animal dung, chewing on a radish. It’s that or die. Those of us without cable or satellite TV are left with a nightly choice. Idiotic politically correct network sitcoms or the occasional public broadcasting science show infused with idiotic politically correct observations. Now, read the facts that were right before the hippie scientist and the pleasant-voiced PBS narrator. Half of the Antarctic ice sheet (in the West) melts each summer. As these two (the hippie scientist and the pleasant-voiced narrator) are forced to admit, the level of the earth’s oceans is less than dramatically altered as a result, for the simple reason that this half a continent of ice, being in the water already, has already displaced its own volume. When it melts, its effect on the level of Earth’s oceans is not only insignificant, it is reduced because some of it evaporates into the atmosphere! (They didn’t mention that last part. There’s a limit to how much actual factual information we can expect from a hippie scientist and a pleasant-voiced PBS narrator.) Next, glaciers are made of snow, not frozen water like ice cubes in your refrigerator. Six inches of winter snow in your mountains provides one inch of water for the streams the next summer. An inch of glacier ice is formed by the compression of a number of feet of fallen snow. Now, pay attention. The deepest Antarctic glaciers are three miles thick! Guess what? Since they are made of snow that falls to the ground, this means that at one time the snow that is at the bottom of the deepest glacier fell on bare ground. That’s right, at one time, Antarctica was bare ground. There wasn’t a single millimeter of ice on it. So what happened? What caused fifty or sixty miles of snow to fall on Antarctica? Well, millions of years ago, the world was populated by beings that drove Buicks, smoked cigarrettes and had toasters that used electricity from coal-fired power plants! They must have eaten meat, and passed fiscally risky tax cuts. One of them had to be named Newt Gingrich. Quite a few of them owned guns. They believed in not having children out of wedlock. They lived in suburbs and commuted to work in private vehicles instead of public transit and bicycles. Many of them were white-skinned members of the Christian right and registered as Republicans. But all this, as bad as it was, is not what caused the global warming that triggered the ice age that dumped three miles of snow ice on Antarctica. Here is the key item, the trigger. They canceled affirmative action as a factor in college entrance examinations, and relied entirely on S.A.T. scores. That is what destroyed their world civilization. The hippie scientist in the NOVA program proved it. His ice drill bit broke down near the bottom. When he pulled up the three miles of pipe, embedded in the shredded bit he found fragments of a photograph. When assembled, the pieces formed a portrait of Ronald Reagan. If PBS doesn’t do it, who will? *** A POSTSCRIPT Debating the subject of man-caused global warming on Jim Robinson's
famous internet discussion forum, Free
Republic, a fellow posted the following text.
15,000 Scientists Protest Kyoto Accord; Speak Out Against Global Warming Myth "We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement
that was written in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, and any other similar
proposals. The proposed
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth." 16 Posted on 03/21/2001 01:25:46 PST by Uncle Bill |