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Reading Between The Lines
06/25/09 9:59am
You know, if someone really wishes to know the truth about Global Warming™ or whatever they are calling it these days (come to think of it, maybe it's "Climate Change"™ now - hard to hit a moving target) all you have to do is keep a relatively open mind. The bits and shards of proof are all over, popping up in the damnedest places when you least expect it. Once you start noticing these things and start adding them up a picture starts to emerge of the phony baloney "facts" of Global Warming™. 

Recently I was following a news lead completely unrelated to climate when, on the page that I was on (I think it was the LA Times) these was a small feature link. Low on the page and illustrated with a small half-inch by half-inch graphic, it was a "10 things you probably didn't know about Southern California's coast" photo feature.

I clicked on it and rumbled through, reading the micro-facts that I didn't know about SoCal's coast. Then, right there at the tenth selection the copy said: "The level of the sea is rising at about 3 millimeters per year — and it's been rising for the last 18,000 years." Huh? Wait. I thought that sea level rise was all the fault of human activity, pouring tons of CO2 into the air every minute since the industrial revolution. Clearly by this source, the LA Times - not exactly a bastion of Climate Change™ skepticism, the sea has be rising far longer than man has been "spewing". I assume the writer consulted some fact source before committing those figures to screen rather than invent them out of whole cloth. I wonder how that got past the liberal dogma enforcers at LAT?

There's no hiding to my thoughts on Climate Change™, this blog is dedicated to my thoughts on it after all. The climate has been changing since the earth was created and it will be changing, getting hotter and cooler, far into the future and anything that man is doing CO2-wise has little to do with it. Proof has been coming out for years now that the sun's activity is more the cause than us and just because the eco-Nazis choose to ignore the reports doesn't make them any less true. But also let me reiterate, only because the eco-wacko left tries to tar climate skeptics as polluters: That is not to say that we shouldn't be good stewards of our environment (no peeing in the rivers and dumping your old sofa in the creek). CO2 however, is the plant food in the symbiotic relationship between man and the earth. We expel what they need and they expel what we need. Cozy. I like it.