Since Dr G was shutdown for the passover holiday (we couldn't sell it) there have been no posts since April 7.
Green being all the rage in the Obama administration, publications like Newsweek get on the bandwagon and everything they report is flavored by the new ideology. One such article in the last issue is an interview with the new energy secretary, Steven Chu. He comes with good credentials being a nobel prize winner for physics. The first thing that caught my attention was that he and his fellow scientists bemoan the fact that they can't control climate change. His underlying motivation is to somehow poke G-d in the eye and get control of the weather. Lacking that, he hopes to at least slow the inevitable (according to the science community) progress of global warming.
If there is one thing that has always gone without saying it was that humans are incapable of influencing the weather and even the greatest atheist agrees that it is out of our hands. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century we experience the ultimate "kefira."
One of the arguments emphasizing the danger of climate change is that dead vegetation in the polar regions, should world temperatures rise, would release untold billions of microbes which would eat the vegetation thereby releasing an overwhelming amount of carbon dioxide into the air. I can't believe that a nobel laureate could believe such poppycock. If the microbes that were alive when the polar reqions were verdant couldn't prevent the arctic climate from becoming colder why would their reawakening cause increased warming?
In the same issue, Fareed Zakaria characterizes senator Inhofe (Oklahoma) as someone "who has compared the EPA to the Gestapo, , Carol Browner to Tokyo Rose and environmentalists to the Third Reich."
I like this guy, Inhofe. He sings my song. Many of my friends can tell you that I have been saying for decades that if the greens ever get in people will go up the smokestacks in the name of environmentalism.
I think the time has come...
4 comments:
this goes hand in hand with Newsweeks recent cover story on Americans becoming less religious. I have no idea if that is true or not but environmentalism is a faith based religion for many americans who are lacking spirituality and looking for a something to believe in.
I am seriously thinking of banning any named reference to the Obama worshipping, tree hugging, atheistic self iimportant hypocrites who write for the toilet paper known as newsweek. The fact that it is quoted by name in posts and comments on the hallowed pages of this blog distresses me greatly.
You people are great with names to comment with, lets have a discussion to come up with an appropriate euphemism.
I fear that GW GREUNKERN is a facist, and hopefully will not comment on politics, since obviously he does not grasp the concept of freedom. In a free society we do not censor those we disagree with, we censure them.
I remember when Marge Schott, the Nazi loving owner of the Cincinnati Reds was banned from having anything to do with baseball activities, George Will wrote (I'm paraphrasing):
In this country we do not punish speech. We refute it.
the more you start banning things on your blog the less open discussion you will have so while I appreciate the sentiment I think you should just let it go this time.
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