I never really believed in global warming,
partly because I never believe in 'popular'
scientific theories. Partly because I always
doubt what I'm told by government and
organisations with an axe to grind.
When 'everybody knows it's true'
then alarm bells ring.
This kind of attitude would have got
me shot by nazis, communists, greens,
and the religious. (It may yet)
But the clincher came quite a few years ago
now when this nonsense was first mooted.
The BBC, Horizon team debunked the theory
brilliantly.
You see, it is actually our fault lads and lasses.
Yes us pilots and airline workers and airports.
Yes airports in particular.
You see, where are all the Met stations these
days? That's right airports. What are airports?
Nothing but giant expanses of concrete and steel.
Do they get hot in the sun? damm right they do.
The original basis for global warming was the
sum total of world temperatures based on
a specified period using the data from all
the Met stations available. Now correct me
if I'm wrong there weren't many Met stations
around a hundred years ago or airports.
The net conclusion of the programme was
that if you removed all the data from airports
we were actually suffering from global cooling!
But the whole global warming thing has
grown legs and the human capacity
to make patterns and to see things we
want to see, remember doing stuff like
that in the human factors exam, means
that it must be true, because everybody
believes it must be true.
This recent rain in the British Isles,
heavy as it was, global warming?
A few years ago it didn't rain much,
there was drought in England, global
warming? That's how it was described
both times.
When global warming comes the polar
ice cap melts and the flood of water
diverts the gulf stream south causing
the British Isles to take on the
weather of Canada, lots of snow.
Except that with global warming,
Canada will be as balmy as California.
This is the sort of contradictory stuff thats
bandied about.
Ten years ago we were told that we
wouldn't see any effects for 50 years.
Boy, were they wrong.
The truth is nobody really knows but
people are making careers of it.
It has also been embraced by the fanatics
amongst us. That incident where the woman
threw a cream pie at a delegate during the
conference is typical of the moronic mentality
that it encourages.
Even the famous El Nino phenomen
'was made worse' by global warming.
If I was El Nino, I'd be insulted, El Nino
needs no help.
Less than a thousand years ago it was
warm enough in Iceland for Viking settlers
to live in a temperate climate. They got
frozen out since. Global cooling?
What we have now is a snapshot of
our climate, in ten years it might go cold.
How would that be explained?
What we are doing now is like a visitor
who spends a hot summers day in Canada
and writes home that it's a tropical
paradise. None of us will be around to find
out the truth about global warming.
Meanwhile a lot of people will have made
a tidy living from all the hype.
What annoys me the most is the appalling
arrogance of it all. In the past if it
rained or didn't rain or the wind blew your
house down it was the Gods or just God.
Nowdays it's our fault, we control the
weather. We have become God.
That's the real problem.
The counter to all this nonsense is to
THINK for yourself at all times. Question
all the accepted norms believe nothing
you read in the papers, doubt every 'expert'
you me. Accept nothing with a smell of dogma,
remember the truth is always the first
casualty.
I may be wrong about this but I doubt it. We will
all laugh about the great global warming scare in
a few years time as we sit huddled around our
fires during the new ice age, which is coming soon.
I know it.
[This message has been edited by fifthcolumns (edited 03 December 2000).]