Fearmongering Pays Off

Yesterday's big news. Branson of Virgin Airways gives 3 billion over 10 years (that's $300,000,000 per year) to fight man's influence on global warming. Never mind that lots of people, including me, doubt very seriously that man can influence climate change plus or minus a whit.

But you see, environmentalism is always about control, power and money. No one bothers funding or even interviewing Dr. William Gray who is a reputed climatologist and who doubts anthropogenic global warming.

Nope, the only way you get on the Branson Global Warming payroll is to pretend you are Al Gore; scream disaster, terror, fear, and (show me the money). If there wasn't big money behind this whole global warming caused by man idea it would die a suitable death.

I see that the oceans have cooled off a bit. I see that Greenland just harvested it's first barley crop in 600 years. You remember Greenland, Vikings moved there years ago and settled. Then the climate changed and they were frozen out.

And you aren't going to drown. If ALL the water in ALL the ice caps in ALL the world and All the glaciers were to melt precipitously TODAY the net rise in sea levels would be 12.5 inches. The oceans are a really big place, and there isn't as much ice as you think. So raising it several FEET as Gore says is tough to do. There was a brave countercultural Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg PhD who was on Glen Beck recently who said this. Relax, you aren't going to drown (unless you decide to rebuild New Orleans underwater, then you will).

Now a foot of sea level rise is going to cause some havoc. There will be beachfront properties in FLA that will be impacted.

But life will go on. Climate Scientists have always sold out to the highest bidder. Remember Global Cooling? I do, that's one of the benefits of being really old. You get to look at life thru a wide angle lens.

On the other hand, this idea of a total meltdown of all the ice on the planet assumes it won't snow anymore, that there is no replenishment of the ice caps in arctic places. That's not going to happen.

I just wish I could get in on that Branson $300,000,000 per year for the next 10 years. Unfortunately I have ethics unlike the junk science whores who will take the money and buy beachfront property in Florida and then complain when it drifts out to sea. They'll be looking for government handout to save them.

As for me, I'm looking into some Oceanside property in Greenland. I hear the summers there are cool and fresh and getting nicer. Winters? There's always Florida.