A Little Closer To Heaven

I just read over at the blog, National Parks Traveler , that Lake Powell is expected to rise 50 feet this summer.

Reading this article, and others like it, has really got me thinking lately. Now, I realize everyone’s got their opinions on things, but I’ve been really bothered by this whole global warming pandemic lately.

After watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, I was amazed at how much it tugs at your heart. Seeing all of the changes that are occuring really can stir up fear about the uncertainty of the future. However, I was disappointed at how little scientific information was used to back up the arguments in the film. It seemed like a bunch of pictures of devastation and change followed by arguments that we need to change the way we live because we are causing all of this, however, there was little proof from the documentary that we are indeed the cause of global warming.

Stay with me here because I’m getting to my point. La Nina has hit the world very hard this year. It snowed in the middle east, it’s been flooding like crazy around here, temperatures all over the globe have hit record lows this winter, the core temperature of the Earth has drastically lowered, the snow cover over the earth is way up, the arctic sea ice has expanded to it’s previous levels , Lake Powell is on the rise, and there’s been no global warming in 10 years . To sum it up, many of the heartwrenching pictures shown in Al Gore’s movies are going back to the state they used to be in. The “after” pictures are turning back into the “before” pictures.

With all of this happening, people are still crying out about global warming and carbon footprints. The average American believes that global warming is still on the rise and doesn’t even know the facts that there’s been no change in 10 years and that this year is one of the coolest on record. When news that the Earth is cooling once again comes out, people blame La Nina and also say that the freak weather proves global warming is occuring.

Here’s what really bothers me. The global warming hype is set up so that it can never be proven wrong. It’s circular reasoning at it’s finest. If temperatures are rising and ice caps are melting, it’s due to global warming. If temperatures are declining, the ice caps are thick once again, and deserts are getting snowed on, it’s due to global warming. Is there any way to prove it false? No, because it’s a circular argument that looks like this:

A (ice caps are melting) is happening because B (global warming) is happening

B (global warming) is happening because A (ice caps are melting) is happening.

If A changes back to normal, we’ll just throw this one into the mix:

C (ice caps are thicker than ever) is also happening because of B (global warming).

Do you see what I’m saying? I know it’s a little more complicated than this, but it still doesn’t add up when you add all of the scientific data available.

Is it totally off-the-wall for me to believe that nature may have a way of course-correcting itself? I mean can we as humans assume that our little carbon footprint on the world is really gonna be the demise of our planet? I think it’s all a little proud on our part.

I want to do my part. I want to leave an amazing world for my children and grandchildren to enjoy. I want to have a small “carbon footprint.” However, I don’t want to be caught up in the latest fad called “being green.” I don’t want celebrities and politicians, the people with the biggest carbon footprints on the planet, telling me what I can and cannot drive, or which lights I have to use in my house, while they take their jumbo jets to the next global warming convention. I don’t want my favorite outdoors magazines having entire issues devoted to global warming. I want to be made aware of all of the facts, not just assume something is happening because it’s assumed. Then, let me, let the entire American public, use their own brains and decide for themselves.

I understand that I may not hold the most popular opinion right now and I’m setting myself up for a flamewar. But I think it’s time we start treating our fellow Americans with some respect. That we start letting people choose what’s best for them and the Earth they live on based on their own conclusions and convictions, not the government or celebrity opinions. People who believe in temperature cycles are not holocaust denyers and they don’t need to be treated like them. They’re smart Americans just like you. And they can figure out what’s best for themselves without being forced into it. Emission standards should not be the primary concern of the next election because of who the loudest Americans are. The primary concern should be decided by the majority opinion…we live in a democracy.

Wow…that’s about as philosophical as you’ll ever see me. I have a headache. I need to go to bed.

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