Global Warmongering

I have seen the enemy and they are us!

That's it folks, the party's over. Take down the posters, pop the balloons, sweep up the confetti. Some one help the drunks into the waiting taxis. Grab the closest drunk blond you can find, and head for the door. This gig is a done deal.

Right here, right now, in this very blog, I am officially declaring the war on global warming over, and we have lost. By we, I mean those who think science should be grounded in, well, science, you know - facts, reasoning, logic, observations, facts, deduction - we have lost. And what makes it all the more bitter is the absolutely pathetic attitude of those who won. The hippies, the greenies, the Hollywood elite, the mainstream media, and the politicians. They just handed us a shit sandwich, so it's time to belly up to the bar, and every sane person in Western Society needs to take a big bite.

Does this mean I agree global warming is happening, and I agree humans are causing it, and we need liberal democrats to save us from ourselves? Not at all. That battle will rage as long as there are independent people in this society who refuse to be lectured by Hollywood stars who couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. That's not the battle I'm talking about. That battle will never be over. But while we fought that battle, the greenies fought the battle that - as it turns out - ultimately mattered. They convinced Pop Culture to accept their cause. And Pop Culture willingly drew them into it's smelly, festering, pustule-filled bosom. But there is a price to be paid for that victory, and pay it they will. More on that in a bit.

Global Warming/Climate Change (I use that term because that's what its called, in order to help prop up their rickety house of cards, to cover any example, no matter how innate, they choose) has entered the lexicon of today's modern Pop Culture. That now means its officially accepted, recognized, and morons who know nothing about science, climate, hell - about anything - will begin to lecture us on how stupid and ignorant we are, and smugly look down their noses at us, while they thumb through People magazine. I have a good friend who's got a heart of gold, but he's definitely a few burgers short of a Happy Meal. He is now lecturing me on how little I understand science, facts, and all the rest of those big words he doesn't really understand. My friend, with a heart of gold, empties bed pans at a state institution (read: state job). I have multiple college degrees and have been working in the high tech industry for the last 20 years or so. And he's now convinced he knows more than I do. His proof of his superior ideas? Everyone else in Western Society says so.

Call it conventional wisdom, group think, what ever you like. Personally I call it Pop Culture. Pop Culture is a shadowy concept. There's no official demarcation between it and reality. But trust me it exists. Why do people care what Madonna had breakfast? Pop Culture tells them to. Why do people care what people like Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears, O.J. Simpson, Lindsey Lohan, and all other forms of weirdness do? Because Pop Culture tells them that's what's important. And while we tried to use reason, logic and facts to keep the debate in the realm of science, they worked to ingrain this pseudoscience into the brains of those most easily manipulated. And they were victorious.

Every time I pick up a news paper, a magazine, or watch TV, anytime anything that has to do with the environment, in any way, no matter how tangentially connected, all mention global warming. Last week I read a local story in the paper about students at a high school who were implementing a school-wide recycling program. Why? Global warming. In National Geographic I read about a scientists studying the design of snow flakes. Why? Looking for clues to global warming. The governor of New York announced today he's going to enlarge government, guess why? He's creating an official statewide office on Global Warming. It's everywhere. And it's here to stay. Get used to it.

Try it yourself. Next time you read, hear or watch any type of program or report that deals in any way with the environment, notice if they mention global warming. And for extra points, count how many times they repeat it. It's scary.

I'm not here to argue about facts, theories, or anything else dealing with science. As I've said, that battle is over. I'm here to make a most ugly predication.

Pop Culture has embraced global warming. Pop Culture has also embraced Michael Jackson. Look where it got him. It embraced Jim Morrison and John Belushi and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and Marylin Monroe and Kurt Cobain and the rest of the sorry, sordid lives that have been ruined and/or cut short. Pop Culture invited them in, celebrated them, then grew tired of them, and tossed them like scraps of tripe to the media wolves. And I predict the same will happen to the global warming environmentalists. They should and will enjoy the bright lights of Pop Culture. The fancy parties, the spot lights, the red carpets they will prance down before fawning "nobodies" who are thrilled to be in their presence.

And they should enjoy it while they can, because Pop Culture is a demanding Mistress. And when she's done with them, they will be ripped through the media's shredder.

And when that happens, the environmental movement will have lost its reputation, and that they will not be able to repair. Idiot people may enjoy getting quick peeks at Britney Spears' meat curtain, but they don't take her, or her vagina, seriously. And when this is all over, they will not take the environmental movement seriously either.

Enjoy your victory while those of us who really and truly care about the environment mourn.

Update:

As if you needed more evidence, I present you with Ellen Goodman.

And I quote: "By every measure, the U N 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is 'unequivocal.' The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get."
"I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future."

If I drop a rock I'm much more than "90 percent" certain it will fall. If I walk far enough, I'm much more than "90 percent" sure I will not fall off the earth. This is the mentality that we face. And now anyone who refuses to swallow this crap is the modern day equivalent of "Holocaust deniers"? Some day, far in the future, when all this is revealed, we'll all have a good laugh. But until then.....

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