About a week ago, the daughter of a friend got married. The priest performing the ceremony imparted this little pearl of wisdom upon the crowd of well wishers. All stories are true, and some actually happened. For a member of the clergy, lesson by allegory is a perfectly acceptable way to impart a lesson. Their message is inspired by a higher power, something not of this Earth. For the rest of us, the standard is a little more strict. It is for this reason why some of us on the political right have referred to the man made global warming belief system as a religion. It’s proponents have operated for years on the premise that even if the specifics of their story of a falling sky were not truthful, then the more vague concepts of a possibly dying Earth were certainly something to be feared. Please don’t misunderstand me, I do agree that we should be using our natural resources as efficiently as possible. I agree that every effort to reasonably protect our environment should be taken, and that further, we should make a continuing effort to clean up after ourselves. I grew up in the Ohio River Valley, and I remember when certain Chemical Companies would illegally dump Carbon Tetra Chloride into the river and what a pain it was to not be able to drink water or shower for 48 hours afterward. That being said, the pendulum is capable of swinging way too far in the other direction also. So, without further ado, please enjoy an example of the pendulum swinging too far in that direction. The star of the video is Al Gore, or by his assigned nick name, “Man Bear Pig.” (This is in reference to the comedic genius of, “South Park.”)

This video is good news for those of us on the side of reason. When the political left is losing the argument, the last ditch effort to win the day for them is the tried and true tactic of leveling the ultimate in ad hominem attacks, calling us racists. The logical gymnastics performed by Al Gore to equate people who do not agree with man made global warming with the racists of the Jim Crow South is nothing short of Olympic caliber. Bear in mind, this interview has taken place after the leak of emails from East Anglia in which all of the top, “climate scientists,” were caught red handed conspiring to hide a decade and a half of declining temperatures, hiding a period of warming temperatures which occurred during the medieval period, downplay scientific experimentation which actually disproved their theory, downplay problems in their computer modeling, to rig temperature stations to collect increasing temperatures by placing thermometers next to heavy machinery, on asphalt, and to exclude all temperature stations north of the 39th parallel. Also, keep in mind that this video was made a full day after the Cern Super Collider proved that that big yellow thing in the sky during the day time has more to do with our temperatures and weather than anything man is able to accomplish. In an experiment last week, the Heliocentric theory was proven true. The thing about the Cern Super Collider is, that being a machine, it is not capable of racism.

The global warming theory has other problems as well. This is one which its proponents have never answered, or even attempted to address, out side of calling us racists that is. Feedback, which is a system’s continuation of a reaction. For the global warming theory to be true, their computer modeling depends on something called positive feedback, and for this feedback to be on an order of magnitude which would be simply astounding. In point of fact, the only place in our universe where positive feedback occurs, that we know of, is in nuclear reactions. And yet, here we are, assigning a coefficient of positive feedback to our global warming model on an order of magnitude which dwarfs the number generally found in even the most rapidly deteriorating fissionable material. No explanation for this assumption has ever been explained, only a charge of denial, and a comparison to some evil of the past.

My point is of course well beyond the debate over whether or not the, “science is settled.” My point is whether or not it makes sense to continue to allow the EPA to cripple our free market system based on something which has been proven to be false. Preventing our business community from poisoning us with known toxins is one thing, and something by the way which the free market system does a much better job of doing than any central planning committee has ever done. Making that community react to a completely manufactured threat is something else entirely. The leftist vision of life being cleaner without technology is simply wrong. During medieval periods, people lived in their own waste. Perfumes were used to mask odors of filth, which by the way came as much from the people of the time. Our life style today is much cleaner, and indeed much better for the environment. This has been reflected in our life expectancy, which as a society has increased from the mid 30’s to the mid 80’s. Yes, it is true that cancer rates have increased since medieval times, but that is a function of people living long enough to develop cancer, rather than the supposed spoiling of our environment. Real economic hardship is beginning to occur due to the direction laid down by the environmental movement. It is time to start ignoring these lunatics. We can begin this process of correction in November of 2012.

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.