Not in the mood. The muse is moot. Here’s sumpin’ from Ron.

That rat-bastard Soetoro’s face showed up on my TV today, and before I could get to the remote to shut off the sound he had gone off on some drecch about climate change. Pissed me off, so I let my fingers do the talking. Not cute, nothin new, no funny comments . . . just some facts I think our “leaders” should be aware of:

Señor Surrender has done it again . . . doubled down on his delusional conviction that international terrorism, especially radical Islamic terrorism, is much less of a danger to this country than climate change.

JHFC! First of all, I agree that Iran is not directly threatening us and has no intention of directly attacking the US except through isolated renegade or lone wolf attacks on high-population areas or cyber attacks on infrastructure. That’s still a real threat, of course, but not so much as what China is up to militarily, economically, and technically.

The Iranian leadership is simply insane; that’s all there is to it. Iran’s danger is like the guy who lives one block over and always has strange sounds and smells coming from his place, the guy who never looks you straight in the eye when you pass him on the street and you know you can’t trust him. The Russian leadership is basically megalomaniacal, and that makes them dangerous in the same way as the bully who lives down the street and tries to get his pit bull to shit in your yard when he walks by with it. Chinese leadership is more insidious, like the well-dressed friendly gangster who pats you on the back and buys you a beer while his gang is burglarizing your house.

And all three of those are dangerous, much like having a very nice house on the edge of a very bad neighborhood and trusting your security to ADT and a few retired potbellied cops to guard your kids and your property. But he’s still missing the point on the biggest danger to this country, and it sure’s hell ain’t climate change: it’s the friggin debt and the socialist entitlement system that exacerbates it.

Climate change is real. This planet still has a molten, active core upon which floats a collection of cooled crustal plates and a shitload of liquid water. As those plates shift position, they alter ocean currents, which in turn affect heat distribution and weather patterns. Sometimes the poles are covered in ice, and sometimes the planet warms up so that the seas rise, coasts submerge, permafrost melts, ice caps disappear, and species go extinct. Then certain plates collide and a spectacular series of volcanic eruptions occurs which blanket the globe with dust clouds for decades and the whole thing becomes a giant ball of ice.

And there ain’t one goddam thing we can do about it. If one of the half dozen or so megavolcanoes, such as Yellowstone, blows, mankind will be in grave danger of going the way of the dinosaurs. And when the sun decides to go into a more active cycle with more sunspots and stronger radiation, we’d have about as much chance of modifying that as a pissant would have trying to change the alignment of the pyramids at Giza.

This planet has had ice ages, warm ages, mass extinctions, supervolcanoes, tidal waves, pandemics, asteroid strikes, and magnetic pole reversals, and it’s going to have more of them, and we can no more stop them than we can stop boys and girls from getting together to create more boys and girls. One day the core will slow its rotation, and the magnetic field which shields us from the solar wind will disappear. And finally the sun will go all red giant on us and eat the entire goddam planet. And we sure as HELL can’t stop things like that.

Period.

For the IPCC or Brock Insane Soetoro or anybody else to think that by destroying the US economy through reduction of CO2 emissions the change in climate can be reversed or even slowed is the pinnacle of presumption and arrogance. If anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions were reduced to zero (which would require total elimination of the human species), the planet would continue in its cycles of warming, cooling, greening up, icing up, and so on.

The IPCC’s central task is measuring, understanding, and predicting the impact of humans on global warming by creation or release or use of greenhouse gases. It takes very little note of natural causes of climate change. And like any other bureaucracy, if it determines that its focus on humans as the problem is a flawed assumption, it loses its grants and becomes superfluous, so it must continue to predict doom or go out of business.

Fear, guilt, and greed are the pillars of the church of AGW. Politicians campaign on the fear and the guilt, promising to save us all from our own ignorance, telling us it’s mandatory that we shut down our factories and replace our SUVs with rickshaws, in essence, making the country go the way of Paraguay or Zimbabwe.

Universities and scientific institutions thrive on gazillions in grants, churning out shiny inventions and creating redundant government jobs by coming up with rube goldbergs and frightening predictions that wind up on the scrap heap like so many Edsels and Mayan calendar warnings.

Liberals and socialists welcome the climate change fear frenzy as the perfect tool for redistribution of wealth from developed nations to parasitic pestholes while shifting power from the US to the UN. I’m beginning to suspect that Obeyme wants to prevent global warming, hence sea-level rise, simply because the liberals’ voter base is concentrated along the coasts and he’s afraid that they won’t be able to drive to the polls if the water gets too high.

Without getting into the carbon cycle, which apparently nobody in government OR the IPCC understands, we simply cannot know from computer models if more CO2 in the atmosphere would be a bad OR a good thing. Yes, rising sea levels would inundate a few billion people’s homes, but what about all that land in Siberia or Canada or Alaska that might become breadbaskets? What about shifting weather patterns turning the Sahara or the Gobi or the Namib or the Atacama into a pasture? Antarctica might become prime real estate for displaced Punjabis or Londonites or Mediterraneans.

We keep hearing that “the science is settled.” Well, I’m by no means convinced of that. We simply don’t know what exactly will happen if CO2 levels remain elevated. Hell, they’ve BEEN elevated for the past 20 years or so without any appreciable rise in global temperature. Soetoro says that we’ve recently seen evidence of more powerful storms, but he must be watching a different weather channel from mine because we haven’t had a severe storm along the Gulf Coast since Katrina, and that was a LONG time ago (10 years, in fact). The Antarctic ice cap is growing, the polar bears are thriving, and no major cities have disappeared since Al Gore made his terror predictions that polar sea ice would be gone as early as 2014.

CO2 is essential for carbon-based life forms, and plants REALLY like it; that’s why some greenhouse owners pump it in during certain times of the year. There is a point at which CO2 levels can be TOO low, endangering the entire food chain. We’re nowhere near that, of course, but I do know that water vapor has a much greater effect on the radiation of heat back into space than does CO2, and humans have even less control over that (and methane, which is a natural product of the decomposition of any living thing) than CO2.

Earth is very obviously in a warming period following the last ice age. How long it will last is unknown. During early years of the Roman Empire, the climate was much warmer than now, and nobody was driving SUVs in those days. Then later there came what is known as the Medieval Warm Period (about 300 years from around 950 to 1250), during which the Vikings named and colonized Greenland (which later became a giant glacier). Then from around 1300 to the time of the American Civil War we had what is known as the Little Ice Age, when crops failed and millions of people starved. So for 150 years we’ve had a general warming trend . . . and CO2 levels have FOLLOWED, not led that trend.

Hey, trains, planes, and automobiles had NOTHING to do with those periods prior to the 20th century. Deforestation, maybe, but not internal combustion engines.

Period.

Ron sent me this one.

Cute girl!