One of the benefits associated with blog writing is being able to express a strong and heartfelt opinion on a subject in which one has sufficient belief. In this case I am anxious to express my views on “global warming.” and of course the huge amount of hot air and taxes that are being spent on trying to combat the inevitable. Be in no doubt human beings are but mere tenants on this planet and, like any tenant, they may wish to redecorate the house but are powerless when it comes to altering events outside and on any adjoining land. Our Government has seen fit to exploit global warming as a tax generator to bring in money and create meaningless jobs, at national expense.
Never forget, as the blinkered “greens” have allowed themselves to become the Government’s storm troopers in this exercise, it is necessary to defuse their arguments. Consider a few simple facts. 5,000 years ago we are told that the Sahara desert was lush grassland and, for years before that, the whole of Northern Europe was one vast ice cap. Yet, was this transition brought about by coal fired power stations, aeroplanes or motor cars? No, it happened as part of an on-going and natural cycle of events. My late father was born in 1909 and raised in Stoke on Trent and I can recall him telling me that, if sun shine actually reached ground level it was reported in the local paper. In those days every house burnt coal, as did every factory, every railway locomotive and every steam ship. So, with pollution rife, did that stop us from having severe winters and frozen rivers? Of course not. Then, in the fifties, the prophets of doom told us that testing atom bombs would destabilise the world’s climate, but they lost that one as well didn’t they?
With regard to floating ice caps, such as the North Pole, consider that a glass filled to the brim with water and ice does not overflow when the ice melts. The laws of physics tell us that matter cannot be destroyed or created, it can only undergo a change of state. For example boiling water converts it into steam.
Yes, if the global temperature rises, ice on land masses such as Greenland and the Antarctic will certainly melt and flow into the sea. But, when one looks at the world, noting how much is already covered by sea, a lot of ice will need to melt to greatly affect levels worldwide. Yes some islands already close to existing sea levels will experience problems, but evaporation may well turn some of this excess water into rain clouds. Maybe bringing the grass back to the deserts?
To turn the issue of our changing climate into a tax revenue jamboree is unfair to say the least as people can easily find themselves presented with a barrage of uneven information. In astronomical terms the earth moves progressively nearer to, and then further away from the sun by tilting on its axis, causing temperature changes. The ancient Egyptians charted this astronomical movement and called it “precession.” So why cannot we as mere tenants, be told the facts and allowed to keep our money. Mother earth is older, wiser and more powerful that we will ever be. As the old prayer says “give us the strength to change what can be changed, and the fortitude to endure what cannot be changed. Simply put people need to be told that spending money in an attempt to alter nature’s pre planned pattern will not only be horribly expensive, it will alter nothing apart from reducing people’s bank balances and swelling Government coffers. Even King Canute’s advisers on sea levels knew they were on a loser, but ours are far better paid when it comes to proving that trying to alter the inevitable will have an inevitable outcome!
