Don’t Miss It

Just so you don’t miss the “second coming” of the recently appointed “messiah” of the Church of Global Warming, I’m giving you a “heads up.” This Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, his holiness will be on “Sixty Minutes.” In an advance release of the various parts of the conversation between Al Gore and Leslie Stahl he has finally revealed what I am thinking about a number of issues.

Since I am a global warming skeptic of the first water and would mistrust Mr. Gore on principal I believe I was personally covered by his remarks. Since I don’t worship at the altar of carbon offsets, he declares that I obviously don’t believe we ever sent a man to the moon and that I also embrace the concept of the “flat earthers.” It’s true that coming northeast out of Amarillo, TX last October the flat earth argument seemed to be pretty well substantiated by the appearance of that landscape. Fortunately, I didn’t drive off the edge and made it home safely. At least I was in good company; he lumped me in with Dick Cheney.

I also learned that I do owe the “messiah” an apology for misrepresenting his book and movie as additional income. I mentioned in an earlier post that he had experienced exponential growth in his income due to investments and I said it was augmented by the proceeds from the book and movie. Apparently he donated much of the proceeds of those two ventures to The Alliance for Climate Protection and lessened his actual income by about 10% for the period or roughly $3,000,000.00. I regret the mistake and hope than he can forgive me for not checking that out.

The organization which was the beneficiary of Gore’s largesse is starting a $300,000.000 campaign next month in support of global warming. He has apparently gained support from the most eclectic group of celebrities you can imagine: Al Sharpton, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, Toby Keith and – drum roll please – the Dixie Chicks.

CBS, true to form, identifies us non-believers as “climate change” skeptics. Not true! No sane person could be skeptical about climate change. Those of us who disagree with the “messiah” recognize the cyclic nature of climate. What we object to is the crippling of the world’s economies to counter imagined threats which are offered as certainties. As an example let us turn to National Public Radio – hardly a bastion of anti-socialist thought..

On Morning Edition, March 19, 2008 we learned that Josh Willis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory emphasizes the ocean’s role in global warming. He claims that 80% to 90% of the change involves oceanic heating and is a more important factor than the atmosphere. They have been using the Argo system since 2003. They placed over 3000 buoys which go down to nearly 3000 feet to measure oceanic temperatures with robotic instruments.

His (Willis) critical quote is: “There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant.” He generally acknowledges that “something mysterious” is going on.

The mystery deepens when you realize that warming enlarges the volume of the oceans and consequently a sea level rise occurs. In this circumstance, we have even to slightly cooling temperatures accompanied by a slight sea level rise.

He and others went on to discuss the enigma, offering various theories and postulates involving melting glaciers, and arctic ice floes and escaping heat in the atmosphere and extreme subsurface warming of the deepest reaches of the seas. The final comment was the telling one and I quote: “there are still things to learn about how our planet copes with heat.” Translation: we don’t know. I certainly appreciate his candor. He may actually be a “global warming” apostate. I truly believe that as a serious scientist Willis would rather acquire the data and then form a conclusion.

Meanwhile, back at CBS, the messiah has the conclusion even though he lacks the science. There is hope however. It’s entirely possible, with the party in absolute disarray, the Democrats may draft him to run again and jettison their star players who have accumulated so much recent animosity within the ranks in recent days.

At every level, the only real victim has been the truth. God help us all.

In His abiding love,

Cecil Moon