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11/08/07  Note to AlGore and his toadies: As a Conservative, I am a conservationist, not an environmentalist, a distinction with an enormous difference.  I am serious about using and husbanding God's creation as He has instructed us to do.  You are really all about hijacking the planet to advance your own narrow Statist political agenda.  AlGore, the polar bears will be around long after you are gone.  JES

08/19/07 There continues to be much angst in the land about "global warming", alleged to be the official downside of climate change.   Forget about it; do as I do: burn as much coal as possible.  Per BTU, cost wise, it's the best bargain out there.  Now I understand that since 1998 the evidence is that we are now in a cooling cycle, which is too bad.  I preferred the warming cycle, and I am doing the best I can to reverse the matter again with my new coal stove.  JES

06/20/07  AlGore's newly published The Assault on Reason brings to mind the intellectual effort of a cat chasing it's own tail.  It is totally incomprehensible psychobabble, devoid of reason.  He is living in a parallel (?) universe.  JES

05/01/07   Occasionally I like to eat sardines.  It seems that with the exploding worldwide increase in the whale population, a competition is occurring.  I'm pulling for Japan in its efforts on the International Whaling Commission to restore commercial whaling.  JES

04/24/07   For the record, the Mountain Observer supports global warming.  Fewer people will die in the cold.  JES

03/24/07  On global warming, and the politics thereof.  Desperate for a signature issue to justify and sustain an increasing political and religious control over our lives, Democrats and their ilk about the globe are seizing on global warming as their new avenue for government growth so as to order us about.  Causing panic among school kids is only another symptom of the psychopaths running loose among us.  Now the fact of the matter is that we can have a discussion about all this based on actual science, or we can submit to a good old fashioned tent revival meeting based on fear and panic with the more particular objective of grabbing political power; to hell with the facts.

Climate change is a constant in the history of the earth.   The biggest single factor is activity on the surface of the sun, subject to control only by AlGore.   Changes to our many climates are continuous, and the proximate causes complex.  Is the earth, as a whole, currently getting warmer?  Perhaps; perhaps not.   Contrary to the screaming psychopaths running loose among us, among relevant scientists the jury is still out, and in any event, "poll taking" is not how science works.

I am not about to review all the details of that discussion here.   Let us just stipulate for the moment, for the sake of discussion, that there is currently a warming trend, specifics to be determined.  The next question is to what extent human activity might be causing, or at least contributing to the warming trend.  This is where all the computer modeling really gets messy.   While it is difficult, on a strictly logical basis, to argue that when I start up my pickup truck I am not contributing to "global warming", it is much more difficult for me to imagine side by side with the macro forces of nature that the impact of my turning that key is measurable.  And so it is also with millions of people all turning their keys every day.   It takes enormous self centeredness and hubris to believe that all of mankind combined could have any kind of significant impact compared to the overall forces of nature.  Incidentally, I am told that the glaciers on Mars are melting as well.  In any event, I see no evidence that "science" has pinned this matter down one way or the other.  Sorry folks, but what we are hearing about here is a simple old fashioned attempt to grab power, a twenty first century version of the old medicine man selling swill off the back of his wagon.   All this is a symptom of the attempted execution of Christianity in the western world and the new religious substitution of Gaia, or whatever.    G.K Chesterton once observed that "Once men believe in nothing, they will believe in anything".  JES

04/20/05  The Mountain Observer would like to announce its great concern for the environment, especially as it relates to the worldwide survivability of bamboo, clearly an endangered species.  Our suggestion in this regard is that the United Nations should declare a very sizable bounty on panda bears.  A panda bear skin should be redeemable at the rate of about 1000 barrels of oil, from anywhere, at least a partial substitute for the recent loss of revenue consequent to American meddling with another favorite UN program.  Besides, who needs panda bears, and we need bamboo shoots for Chinese restaurants everywhere.  JES

MO 05 01  Tsunami victims continue to multiply needlessly, not from the original wave, but from the false pride of officials invested with political correctness against the use of DDT, the hugely successful, and only effective, weapon against malaria spreading mosquitoes on the loose in the wake of the devastation.  Actually this problem predates the tsunami by decades, but now the issue is out in the open.  Another example of Environmentalism run amok. JES

MO 05 01  On the matter of Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex: Once again, you can feed a 1000 lbs of anything to a mouse and kill it.  People get a grip; life is not without risk, just read the directions.  JES

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