It's Getting Hot In Here

Exciting new study! We used to be warmer, millions of years ago. Who would have guessed that the dinosaurs were tooling around in lumbering SUVs, pumping up the atmosphere with green house gases? Does Al Gore know about this? Can he edit his movie to include this new data?

Scientists have concluded that a big warm up took place, a time when there were no ice sheets covering the Antarctic. Too bad Mr. Gore was not there with his camera, filming the bergs dropping off the glacier to demonstrate the drastic climate change. Of course, if he had been there in the middle of the hot times in the old town, why, when the cool down came in, he would have been filming the glaciers getting bigger, while ranting about the catastrophic climate change.

No one seems to know why there was a rise in greenhouse gases all those millions of years ago. Probably because the dinosaurs' cars have not left any fossilized remains. The reason why those same gases decreased is also unknown, but one can safely presume that some prehistoric Gore was able to push through legislation that limited emissions, and so the pollution declined along with the temperature. There he was, fourteen million years ago, agitating for alternative fuels, while the poor dinosaurs in Antarctica were getting covered in ice.

The problem with the current crop of global warming hysteria is that it is, indeed, hysteria. Scientists do not quite understand climate changes, and are only just now learning about natural shifts in temperature. Run around and proclaim that the sky is falling, but people will not believe you if it is not, really and truly, collapsing.

Exaggeration is not the answer - we look to scientific fact. What if all heat-trapping gases were reduced to near zero and the temperature continued to climb? Is it possible that the climate has naturally occurring cycles of long duration that we should prepare for? Would it hurt anything if we promoted clean fuel and alternate energy sources just so that we could breathe clean air, and skip the climate change hysteria?