Hot: Global Warming

Partisan politics is a perilous environment for actual facts. They tend not to be useful on their own. Anyone using them to push an agenda will not be able to help but massage them a bit to increase their value. I suppose facts, in politics, are like ore. They have to be refined, then sometimes mixed with other things, in order to effectively enter the market of propaganda.

And if the ore can't be refined or altered sufficiently to pay the bills, it's tossed out. So it is with the anti-science debate of Global Warming, which more resembles a popularized religion than a serious scientific issue. Are you a convert? You'd better be--the skeptics are not in favor just about anywhere anymore. It's a rough life for non-believers.

So is our globe warming? Probably. This issue, unfortunately, has been eclipsed by a unilateral condemnation of the perceived culprit: carbon, which also happens to be our most important element. The assumed wisdom is now (and has been for decades) that increased carbon emissions have led and are leading to Global Warming, which will, if left unchecked, surely freeze us to death, burn us to death, dry us out or drown us, depending on which fate seems most terrifying to the public on any given year.

Because carbon has been so successfully made the scapegoat for all our ills, our beloved government has finally gotten itself on the fast track to breaking the economy's spine by, well, outlawing it. How? Everyone is gonna get charged for doing anything that emits carbon. I'm only surprised that we haven't yet been told how many breaths we ought to be taking each minute. Because shoot, if seven billion people are breathing excessively, what is all that extra CO2 doing to our poor atmosphere? I quake.

Anyway, here's an incredibly, incredibly important article to read by a guy who knows a LOT more than pretty much anyone else engaged in this feverish conversation. You are sure to find it deeply enlightening. I don't know how else to emphasize how very much I hope you take the time to read it.