The New Religion

Carbon footprint..?!

Okay- it's been around for a while.

I suppose there'll be those who'll say "Welcome to the party, Russ- glad you could join us!"

And yet, others that may be waiting with baited breath [pro and con] to jump at my rhetorical juggler vein just panting at what my next words will be.

I suppose in some ways I'll disappoint at one level and inspire or say nothing that hasn't already been said at the other.

I think 'global warming' is pure BS.

Oh, I can site my examples of researched study [not my own- The Good Lord knows what a bonehead I'd be as a scientist] and for every example sited there would be contrapuntal evidence against and then repartee'd with yet more examples of either side of this fulcrum called "Global Warming".

Al Gore got his Nobel for having made his junk science a reality to the world court- excellent.

And I mean "excellent" in all it's manner befitting a Nobel winner- I mean it with all humility and not even a speck of degradation or mock.

But where people may not understand the dichotomy of acquiescence to Al Gore and yet call his "research" "buffalo plop", let me also harbor this notion...

I also appreciate the Darwin Awards.

What do these two items have in even remote commonality to one another- ah! That's where the mind of the astute common-sensor comes to light!

The Darwin Awards are often bereft of old wives tales and mythological "facts" concerning some hapless buttcrumb who's managed to keep himself from rutting and infecting an already plagued gene pool based on the most eviscerating or heinous death imaginable. As I just mentioned- the DA's are often plagued with falsities and disproven myths.

The Nobel Peace Prize for Global Warming is no more "factual" than the Darwin Awards.

All the spouting and frothing and gnashing of teeth- whether at a 'green event' or some half baked hash induced rock concert where Gore makes his appearance having flown in on his "rented jet" reminds me of the "Diastase" character in AKIRA.

Both are archetypes of one another, both spouting words of imminent destruction through a gleeful grimaced smile as if resigned to their fate and more than willing to bring as many with him as possible.

Where the two analogies/similarities end is that at least in the film AKIRA, the police don their riot gear and start pelting the myopic mobs with teargas canisters [the one-shot of an armed riot officer popping a round of CS right into the chest of a hacking/coughing bystander gives me certain amounts of smirk-some glee if one imagines Al taking the shot in the gut...]

The facts are there- one side says we're doomed in the next 20 years the other says we need to sit back and breath a little bit and stop ourselves short of hysteria. Where both sides say they're using science as their motivator to their viewpoint- one does so to presume that there is a status quo- the other does so in hopes of a magnanimous return to utopia by way of human cleansing and an equally human method of resolution.

That- dear readers is the outline of a religion; oh, surely a man-based faith, mind you- but a religion none-the-less.

So, whether the earth ends some time around noon in the next 12 years or I continue along in my "educated idiot" method of plodding, I'll continue to be;

Russ