“Phrenology – basically palm-reading applied to your skull – was briefly considered cutting-edge science. It’s now widely regarded as pseudoscientific quackery. Today’s “settled science” is often tomorrow’s “I can’t believe we said that,” reads a quote from Jonah Goldberg of The Boston Herald.
Once again, we find ourselves staring down the proverbial barrel of a gun. First it was 50, next it was twenty, then 18, someone else averred 8, another expert claimed 5, while a United States House of Representatives member assured it was 12. Yes, it was a mere 12-years before the Earth becomes totally unable to sustain life, said Rep. Alexandria Ocazio-Cortez, (D-NY).
Something – anything – needed to be done to prevent the absolute self-destruction of the planet or we would all suffer the consequences. Amen.
Back in 2019, AOC “said she thinks that there is an urgency needed in addressing man-made climate change, warning that it will 'destroy the planet' in a dozen years if humans do not address the issue, no matter the cost,” per The Hill, a Washington, D.C. newspaper.
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| AOC presumably laughing at Americans |
After doing some quick ciphering, that leaves us with only eight more years before we are all dead.
And the reason I’m bringing this up now is because the inaugural Earth Day was 53-years ago, on April 22.
Throughout those 53-years, Americans have been bombarded with one scientific report after another regarding the dire condition of Mother Earth.
First, the smart scientists insisted we were facing certain doom due to global freezing. Paul Ehrlich terrified society with predictions of a planet on the brink of a permanent ice age – no questions asked.
Immediately, national magazines and television programs began their crusade to help stop this mindless destruction of our celestial home.
But within a few short years, more reports were published by equally qualified scientists who were assured their findings were more accurate, and that our planet would spontaneously burst into flames.
During the ice age scare, many scientists were devising a way to free our atmosphere of pollutants, to better allow sunlight to reach our rapidly cooling home planet.
Unfortunately, during the ensuing global warming phase, more scientists were fashioning plans to block the sunlight in order to spare us from being baked inside our homes.
These efforts were brilliant from a carnival barker’s point of view. These renown scientists and researchers were coming up with brilliant ideas as well as scenarios to stem whatever crisis civilization was facing or could face.
Ideas were floated about television airwaves and movie theaters, alike. Regular family fare was quickly converted to desperate situations where only a few of Earth’s inhabitants survived by killing and eating their own; art imitating life, I would say.
No matter the media, any and all premises required – no, demanded – immediate action before we reached the self-created Rubicon.
Here’s where things got icky, though.
Those eminent scientists were now attempting to swim to the other side's boat to survive any and all criticism. Was it going to be global cooling, or was it going to be global warming?
It didn’t matter, as long as it was a consensus. Soon, it was – drum-roll, please – officially Climate Change.
Now stupid people like me would tend to call this a cowardly bastardization of the word “weather.” No commitment to a rise or fall in the temperature, only a rapid glance out the window to see what the current conditions look like. If it’s lush and green, it’s fair; tree leaves bent, it’s windy; white means it’s snowing; and so on.
This was summarily introduced to school children under the premise of absolute destruction of every living being on the planet, unless…
Suddenly, classes were not only offered to explain this climate change challenge, but also to indoctrinate young minds to absorb the “settled science” that created this new cultural monster. College degrees in climate change are now offered as a way to give people a means to become involved.
As anointed proof, though, weather readers, print editors, actors, musicians, politicians, and common folk, have been climbing aboard the Climate Change Express Train for nearly half a century to mitigate our imminent demise.
‘It’s only a matter of time,’ is the way the monologue goes. And, so, it will continue with snow falls, heat spells, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes, each event ushering in new warnings about the cry for something to be done – to stop the man-made destruction.
The definitive solution?
Rid the planet of its inhabitants, says renown scientist Bill Gates. Get rid of private planes, says, climate researcher Leonardo DiCaprio. Shut down oil drilling, claims Climate Czar John Kerry. Sell Americans electric vehicles, asserts Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
A real solution, however, would be to stop lying to the world’s inhabitants about the destruction of our home planet. It survived just fine before humans arrived and will continue long after they are gone.
Bottom line: If humans had the power to alter the climate, they should start with deadly flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Alas, they don’t have that power. They only pretend that they might be able to do so, someday.
Until then, stop lying and give up the false god of the religion of climate change, or whatever today’s term is. And, Happy Phrenology Day.
