Global Warming

I finally watched The Day After Tomorrow movie. I realize this puts me a little behind the curve but at least I'm not getting lost in the crowd of the so called "timely" reviewers.

My first reaction was incredulity. I am supposed to believe that because I drive a car and like red meat that I am somehow overheating the global atmosphere and that this, in turn, will trigger, over night, a new ice age. I am such a bastard. It is just too bad that we don't all have the social consciousness of the Hollywood elite whose sports cars and limousines run on spring water and whose mansions are heated and cooled with pixie dust. And don't forget John Travolta's fleet of jets that are fueled by Scientology rather than Science. (Didn't Mr. Kotter teach him anything?)

When did politically motivated retoric replace hard science. Everyone knows that statistical analysis and computer models of future trends cannot be based upon incidental observation or short term samplings.

I am reminded of an episode of Gilligan's Island where the Professor stuck a stick in the sand near the edge of the lagoon. When he returned a little while later, the stick was closer to the water's edge. He continued to observe the stick and came to the conclusion that the island was sinking and at the current rate the water was rising they would all be drowned by midnight. Naturally everyone panicked. After all, there was the hard evidence of the water rising and they had the scientific community predicting disaster. It turned out that the tide was coming in.

In the past 50 years the average earth temperature has risen maybe half a degree while conversely many places reported record highs and lows, as well. But even if there was a general global warming trend, why not go to the simplest explanation first? Isn't it possible that we are still at the tail end of the last ice age? That the few remaining glaciers are still receding, which in turn will have its continued slight but gradual affect on air temperatures and water levels? And that maybe, just maybe, the sky is not falling?

All I'm saying is, whenever Hollywood, the news media and liberal politicians all agree on something that coincidentally condemns capitalism, progress, America's traditional values or mankind's right to exist on the planet, maybe we should question their motives as well as their science.