Pacific Views

I'm having a contest to find the best climate change slogans for my next west coast tour:

http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2012/02/oakland-ca.html

winner gets a thousand bucks.

Somewhere in the Bible I think it says: "God makes it to rain global warming down upon the righteous and the unrighteous." (I'm paraphrasing a little)

First, since God didn't make this world (God isn't insane), then God can hardly be responsible for what seems to befall us in this world, whether rain, global warming, blizzards, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, whatever.

Second, the latter part of this paraphrased biblical quote is true, no matter how the religious types try to spin it, trying to blame some group, claiming that they caused God to cause some localized or global catastrophe to occur, that God "sent" a worldwide flood (Genesis), "sent" fires (Sodom and Gomorrah), "sent" the 9/11 hijackers, Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Karina (Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson) to punish the "sinners" who've offended the religious types in some way (usually involving sex).

The latter part of this biblical quote says that the "righteous" and the "unrighteous" both are affected by, get caught in the path of some type of weather or geophysical event or catastrophe, maybe even killed or severely injured, locally or globally.

In the case of global atmospheric warming, landmasses and oceans heating up, glaciers and polar ice caps melting, the "righteous" (because they're right) are the global climatologists, the reputable scientists recording and reporting on this imminent global catastrophe, while the "unrighteous" (because they're wrong) are the deniers, the naysayers, the oil industry executives and their puppets, the religious nuts, the "heads stuck in a hole in the ground" people.

And who will be caught in the path of this imminent, slowly-unfolding (yet accelerating) global catastrophe? The "righteous" and the "unrighteous" alike, displaced, livelihoods destroyed and maybe even killed by not doing anything NOW. And those like Rick Santorum deny the peril in which their denial places both themselves and their families, and everyone else. Crazy is as crazy does, and God has nothing to do with any of this, just crazy humans adversely impacting the only planet on which we all live and denying it.

Per Antarctic ice core samples collected in the 1990s, the last Great Ice Age over 10,000 years ago began with a heat spike, a sharp rise in atmospheric temperatures by a few degrees. Ocean and landmass temperatures rose, ice melted. But what surprised scientists at the time was that it only took 30 years between the heat spike and the beginning of the Ice Age.

30 years? Not 100 years, not 500 years, not thousands of years, but a mere 30 years in which the earth adjusted to a heat spike (caused by whatever), going in the completely opposite direction (for some similarly unknown reason), entering into an Ice Age lasting several thousand years, with the northern-most ice sheet extending far south into lower latitudes in the Northern hemisphere.

Either the international team of scientists studying Antarctic ice core samples in the 1990s got their analysis of these ice core samples wrong or they got it right. I saw this reported in the late 1990s on a 1-hour-long science program on PBS (Nova), or on The Learning Channel or Discovery, thus I consider this scientific finding reputable and accurate (no matter what caused the heat spike or subsequent abrupt reversal into an Ice Age).

So, "Houston, we have a problem," with the entire earth being Apollo 13. And in this analogy, many of the world's wealthiest and almost all Republicans in the U.S. are on "Apollo 13" telling "Houston" everything's find, that there is no problem, that even if humans "engineered" this looming catastrophe on "Apollo 13," humans can't do anything about it, so best to do nothing. Of course, the world's wealthiest and the Republicans all have children and grand-children on this "Apollo 13" ride, so their fate is sealed along with everyone else, whether of the global warming denier crowd or those shouting "Houston, we have a problem!!!".

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