John McCain Drinks Kool-Aid

I was slightly surprised, I guess, that liberals tend to believe that conservatives and Republicans will fall in line behind John McCain and drink the Global Warming Global Cooling Climate Change Climate Catastrophe so-called “science” Kool-Aid. My friends (as John McCain would refer to you), we are not as gullible as you make us out to be. And we are certainly not as gullible as you.

Whether John McCain believes in the climate change cult is irrelevant to whether or not climate change is going to kill us all and whether we have to stop driving our cars. That’s because this is, at least it’s supposed to be, science. Unfortunately, after searching high and low, deep and wide, I have yet to find one single study that convincingly proves that we are all going to die unless we stop consuming oil. I have read several faulty studies, studies that do the equivalent of what a layman might call, “making things up.” I have read other studies, studies that do the equivalent of what a layman might call, “blowing things out of proportion. And I have read other studies, studies that show that the earth has been cooler, the earth has been warmer, and that we have absolutely no control over it, at least meaningful control.

In fact the most convincing studies I have read show that the global climate is intimately related to the temperature of the sun. Yes, the sun. It’s that bright shiny thing that we don’t see much of nowadays in our neck of the woods. The sun is a giant ball of nuclear fusion. It’s using the same process that H-bombs use to destroy tiny islands in the Pacific, except it sets millions off every moment of every second.

To help you understand the awesome power of the sun, the light that is emitted from the nuclear reaction under its surface is so powerful that it overcomes gravity, pushing unimaginable quantities of matter up, and causes the sun to be much larger than it otherwise should be. Imagine a flashlight that could keep a rock suspended in air. Now imagine a flashlight that could keep the mass of the sun from falling in onto itself.

Another way to think of it is to imagine that we took everything that could ever burn on the earth—all the trees, oil, animals, even nuclear materials, and made a giant bomb. Then we set off that bomb in the sun. The sun wouldn’t even notice it. Not even a little bit. There are small solar flares that are bigger than we could ever make that bomb.

We might think we can control the composition of the atmosphere. We might think we can control the weather.  We might think we can make the global temperature go one degree up or down. But we can’t do these things because we are competing with the sun.

We are not even fleas on an elephant. We are not aphids on a tree. We are not grains of sand on the seashore. We are not barnacles on a whale. We are less than that, much, much less.

When God told Adam that he had dominion over all the animals and plants on the earth, you can think of that as one of two things. Either God set in motion an irrevocable law (revocable only by God) that man would never be capable of controlling anything but the plants and the animals. Or God was stating a fact, that humanity, even when they number in the billions, could hardly change anything but what plants and animals are on the face of the earth at any given time. Regardless, the fact remains, whether you believe in the creation story or not, that we are incapable of changing the climate.

You can howl like wolves at the moon, you can jump up and down and scream and shout like a toddler, but you will still not be able to change the climate. You can invent studies, come up with wild imaginative feedback effects that are nowhere mirrored in nature, you can create supercomputers to run calculations that no one, not even the author, understands. But you’re simply too small, too insignificant, to compete with something like the sun. There is nothing you can do to change that.

And John McCain, even though he is likely to become the most powerful man in the world, is still just a human and can never, ever, cross beyond what humans are capable of doing.

That’s why I don’t care what John McCain thinks about environmental science. I don’t care what anyone things about it.

I only care about the facts.

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