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Global warming hysteria Quite a few bad tornadoes hit the South this past week. You might have heard about them in between updates on all the important stuff like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and the latest on the death of Heath Ledger. (Who?) It didn't take long after the storms passed for Sen. John Kerry to come on MSNBC news to inform us that the tornadoes were caused by ... "global warming." That headline on the Drudge Report was immediately followed by this one: "l,000 O'Hare Flights Canceled, Foot of Snow Likely." That item went on to say, "If snow continues to fall at this pace, the Chicago area is on track for its sixth snowiest winter ever." On Super Tuesday, one of the headlines on MSNBC.com proclaimed, "Many in China to greet New Year without power"- millions struggle to get home amid "coldest winter in 100 years." In the global warming alarmist community all weather phenomena are caused by global warming. The drought here in the Southeast: global warming. Last year's brush fires on the west coast and the more recent heavy snow: ditto. Both the bad hurricane season in 2005 and no hurricanes in 2007 were caused by: you guessed it, global warming. As everyone knows, Al Gore is the Crown Prince of the global warming crowd. I saw a video on the Internet of Al talking to a group of elementary students and one of the children actually said, "Pretty soon the oceans are going to rise 20 feet and we're all going to die!" This child actually thought a 20-foot wall of water is going to come crashing ashore and kill everybody. I noticed Al Gore didn't bother to dispute this view, even though he knew better. If the level of the oceans does rise over the next few hundred years here's my plan: Step back from the edge of the water. Move your house back a couple of hundred feet from the beach and you'll be okay. During the entire 20th century, the average temperature of the earth rose about 1 degree and hasn't risen at all in the last 10 years. John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has this to say: "Global warming is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data back in the late 1990s to create an illusion of rapid global warming ... and I'm telling you global warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won't believe me, a mere TV weatherman challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award, and Emmy Award winning former vice president of the U.S. So be it." The logo of global warming hysteria is a polar bear supposedly stranded on the last remaining chunk of ice in the Arctic. I assure you that if a polar bear is standing on a small chunk of ice, it's because that's where he chooses to be. A polar bear can swim for 50 or 60 miles. A report was released on Jan. 30, 2008, from the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, titled: "U.S. Senate Report Debunks Polar Bear Extinction Fears" - here's just one excerpt from a very long report: "Polar bears survived several episodes of much warmer climate over the last 10,000 years than exists today. There is no evidence to suggest that the polar bear or its food supply is in danger of disappearing entirely with the increased arctic warming, regardless of the dire fairy-tale scenarios predicted by computer models." The report goes on to mention that there are now an estimated 20-25,000 polar bears today, compared to an estimated 5-10,000 in the 1960s. The polar bear is safe. Our planet is safe, at least from an environmental standpoint.
Ted Henry is a retired U.S. Navy aircrewman, and also retired from Lockheed- Martin. Married with two grown daughters, he resides in Cartersville. E-mail him at tedgailh@comcast.net
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