April 22, 2007 12:02 PM
Google weighs in on Global Warming - what a crock!!!
I have this love/hate relationship with Google: utterly love its usefulness in my daily life - where I can look up everything I need for my writing, plus type in broccoli, bacon, raisins and walnuts to come up with the recipe for the wonderful salad I had at the potluck - but HATE the politics.
Take today's header:
Excuse me? Did I ask you, Google, for your opinion?
And it is opinion, you know. The mass hysteria the media is trying to whip up about this stupid subject and the sanctification of Al Gore by Hollywood elites is just mind-boggling - especially to anyone over 50 who's bound to remember the big crisis of 1974-75:
THE COMING ICE AGE!!!
Yes, it really was all that. Using the same language of doom and dread, the major media tried their darndest to whip up the public's fears about the unavoidable glacierization of the planet - which they claimed that scientists were "unanimous" in predicting.
From Newsweek Magazine, April 28th 1975:
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas - parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia - where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon. . . . [Scientists] are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. "A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century... "Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
Read entire article here.
Time magazine also carried an article on The Coming Ice Age in June 1974.
So thirty some years later we're supposed to take the media seriously when they tell us we're now facing a crisis from Global Warming????
And what's up with Ellen Goodman, who is at least as old as I and so must remember the old Ice Age frenzy, who now writes:
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. Read the whole column if you care to here.
Did I read that right? global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. Ellen, have you lost your mind?
For years I've been watching the press besieging us with one coming calamity after another:
The Coming Ice Age
Population Explosion
Killer Bees
Y2K
Mad Cow disease
Bird Flu
Global Warming -
Well, that's just seven that come to mind as I'm trying to finish this sentence before answering the phone - perhaps you can think of more.
Anyway, I've had this on my list for a long time - one of the topics I want to weigh in on. Actually, it's not so much that I want to weigh in as to encourage you to question the Popular Wisdom.
My own theory is that people need something to believe in - not because we're stupid, but because our Creator wants to have relationship with us and so we have a hole in our soul that only He can fill. People lacking that piece of the human puzzle tend to grab other pieces to try to fill it.
Doesn't it seem pretty obvious that when you don't have a foundation of faith, you are subject to fear? And equally obvious that the media plays on our fears - even whips them into a frenzy?
How ridiculous and hypocritical that the consumers most guilty of wretched excess - politicians and movie stars - are not only continually telling us "the sky is falling" but that it's all our fault.
I challenge Google next January 22 to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade with a header acknowledging the slaughter of 45 million US babies so far - a here-and-now holocaust Ellen Goodman and her "enlightened" sisters eagerly support.
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Yes, that is a gmail address. I use Google for everything as well.
Have you read "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton?
I think you would find it most gratifying.
It's a message that we are not getting from the MM.
Thanks for YOUR message!
Posted by: Jennifer | April 22, 2007 2:10 PM
Barbara,
Not very long ago, I joined in on a heated debate about global warming on another blog. I pointed out some of the same things you mentioned and even included record low and high temperatures for each continent (current and early 1900s).
I was surprised that the debate got so ugly. It was a Christian blog, and the "deniers" were basically told we didn't know what we were talking about or didn't know how to accurately interpret scientific data.
I've also noticed that if there is solid evidence against global warming, then the global warming folks say, "More study is needed," or "We're still collecting data in that region."
(As an aside, I would gladly take writing tips from you!)
Posted by: Connie | April 22, 2007 2:20 PM
Barbara,
I do lean to the left more than you do politically. I read your blog, though, for your mothering words of wisdom and your teaching-children-at-home wisdom. The rest is still quite interesting to me because I like to see all sides to issues. I don't quite understand your disillusion with environmental issues. Just because we haven't seen the doom of global warming yet doesn't mean it is not a threat. Our overconsumption and polluting of God's gift to us -- this earth we have been given dominion of and should be good stewards of -- is having effects here and all over the world. I may be reading more into your words than is really there, as I see your frustration seems to be specifically with global warning fears and not necessarily disagreeing with the fact that we should be gentle care-takers of the earth.
Posted by: Amanda | April 22, 2007 2:49 PM
Amanda -
Let me be clear that I think we should be good stewards.
However, the earth goes through cycles and it is simply not going to be destroyed because of us.
Posted by: barbara | April 22, 2007 3:44 PM
Yeah, this whole "The sky is falling!" thing gets old, really fast. Who would be surprised if all the major candidates in the next presidential election used "global warming" as a major capaign point?
Besides, it's much easier to point to other people's mistakes than to simply be good stewards ourselves. That being said, I hope that the media's overbearing focus on Earth Day and global warming will encourage others to take better care of God's creations.
My biggest peeve? Everybody's talking about going green, but instead of reducing their consumption, they're simply consuming eco-friendly products. It didn't fall out of the sky, someone made it somewhere. Even if it's recycled, it required resources and energy to produce. If you didn't buy it in the first place, there would be less need to produce it.
Thanks for listening to my rant. I get so frustrated with people who whip everyone into a frenzy just to "sell" their eco-friendly junk.
Posted by: Emily | April 22, 2007 4:27 PM
I have seen that Google header all day and never put two and two together! Now it's going to bug me!
Oh yeah - what about SARS? Haven't heard much about that in a while!
Posted by: Stevie | April 22, 2007 4:34 PM
The main problem with the global warming fearmongering is its assumption that we humans have anything to do with it.
When in fact the so-called global warming trends started long before we produced the carbon or other supposed culprits of global warming.
As for google remembering Roe v. Wade, I wouldn't be shocked to see them celebrate that sad legal fiasco with celebratory fireworks over an image of women being "freed" from prison into a world labeled "the right to choose." What they will always neglect to highlight, as you imply, is that the right to choose murder. Such is the sad state of our country, its rejection of sound thinking, and its rejection, ultimately, of God's righteousness.
Posted by: Evers | April 22, 2007 7:22 PM
I often make it a point to discuss the record high and low temperatures with my class (and other teachers). It is amazing how many of them are 50-100 years ago!
Posted by: chris | April 22, 2007 9:06 PM
I thought it was hilarious last year when they were bleating about it "being the hottest it's been since the time of Jesus!" Didn't they see how that one sentence was self-defeating to their human-driven global warming narrative?
Posted by: Amy K. | April 23, 2007 3:47 AM
