Update: Source included (at the bottom.)

[Via pwconservative.net]

Oh and just as an update: I have about 5 posts that I am simultaneously working on, just incase you didn’t think I was doing anything…

But in all seriousness this whole “Earth Day” thing annoys me. Why? Because it was founded and exists today to bring awareness to problems that don’t even exist.

“*GASP* IMAGINARY problems?! Evan, how could you! Global warming is a serious problem!” Says the audience. Well, Earth day wasn’t created to stop global warming, in fact, that would’ve been the solution to their problem. Sarcasm and immaturity aside, lets talk about the environment.

The first Earth day was April 22, 1970. It was created by Washington Senator Gaylord Nelson. It was made in a response to a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968. It was called The Population Bomb. This book prophesized that the global population would grow faster than what the food supply could handle. According to Ehrlich, life expectancy would drop to 42 years by 1980 and that the global population would collapse to 22.6 million by 1999.

This, of course, never occurred. Global cooling fizzled out as well. For those who are uninitiated, global cooling was the latest theory that stated that the burning of fossil fuels was causing the Earth to cool down into an ice age. Thirty years later, the same burning of fossil fuels is causing the Earth to warm.

Now, its not that I don’t believe global warming exists: It does. However, my problems arises with what to attribute the warming too. The environmentalists attribute the warming to the burning of fossil fuel and human interference with nature; this is where I disagree.

Global warming is not caused by the evils of humanity, but by nature itself. 97% of the carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere is due to natural events. This events include forest fires, decomposition of plants and animals, and volcanoes. That leaves less that 3%

All of the evidence that supports global warming all comes from global climate models and not real-world collections. You can learn more about the models here. In reality, for the past 10,000 years, the Earth has been in what is called an “interglacial period.” These are periods in which the Earth warms up from an ice age. Once we hit a peak in the warming cycle, the Earth will cool down once more into an ice age. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.

Much of this information comes from a man named John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel. He goes so far to say that “global warming is a scam.” It seems that he may be on to something. In 2004, Al Gore co-launched a company called Generation Investment Management. GIM manages “environmentally friendly portfolios” and sells carbon credits. Two years later in 2006, Al Gore released the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. This documentary sent the “global warming crisis” into the public eye and made it "trendy” to go green.

Al Gore stands to gain for every person who decides to go green. Isn’t this a conflict of interest? Now if you don’t know what carbon credits are, allow me to explain. Carbon credits are things you buy to offset your carbon footprint (the carbon released due to your actions). The proceeds from the carbon credits can go to a variety of sources. From investment of “green technology” to planting a tree. These things by themselves aren’t necessarily a bad thing, but carbon credits are scams to remove your guilt about “destroying” the environment.

The Catholic church had a similar scam back in the 15th and 16th century. Indulgences, like carbon credits, were things you bought  that “removed sin” and allowed you to get into Heaven without penance or confessing your sins to a priest. The Catholic church made a lot of money with indulgences, it was a convenient way to remove sin, and it meant that, provided you had the money, you could sin as much as you pleased. This was all fine and good until Martin Luther, in 1516, began the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 thesis to a Catholic church. These thesis contained Luther’s complaints about the Catholic church, including the use of indulgences.

Now, as I try to wrap up this rant of mine, where does this leave us? I’m not sure. The Earth is warming and we feel compelled to do something about it. Its human nature. We need to realize that this is a natural event, and restricting the freedoms and liberties of Americans and other people around the world is no way of doing that. Especially when there is no hard evidence that we could ever make a difference. If nothing else, remember this: expanding governmental power is no way of solving problems.

Some interesting links:

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/

http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/scientists-make-their-anti-global-warming-case/

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/19842304.html

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html

As always, leave you thoughts and responses in the comments (but please try to stay mature).

Sowwy =(

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Update: Also I’ve removed the ‘Beta’ tag from the logo and am currently updating the logo in Photoshop now, as you can see I’ve put up a temporary one until I’ve finished. With my workload, I made my due date this Saturday.

Looking over my posts in this blog, I have found that many of them are just apologies about not posting in weeks/months. This post is the same in that regard. I realize that it is impossible to gain a following by posting randomly throughout the year (not that I’ve fooled myself into thinking a have a following mind you).

Another thing that I’ve realized is that I have no central purpose in this blog. My old tag was that I would blog about everything, which, ironically, turned into me blogging about nothing (with apologies to Jerry Seinfeld). I stated that I would write movie reviews, talk about technology, and talk about politics. I’ve have done none of these things (except I’ve talked a little bit about politics).

In order to make this blog slightly less schizophrenic, I’ve decided to focus the blog on politics. I already have three drafts of different aspects of politics that I want to talk about. It may take me a little while to post because I am not exactly the most “prolific” writer in all the land, but I shall do my best. I am going to do my best (read: I’m not promising) to post at least once a week, and if not, post a message explaining the delay. If I keep myself somewhat involved with this blog, I will be able to motivate myself to write.

So to those who visit every so often to see if I’ve updated, I thank you. I hope that this will be the last post where I apologize for not updated in three months.

Only 2 minutes in and he’s off to a rocky start. Obama recovers to give a very well-done speech. Coming from someone who disagrees with Obama’s politics, I must say that the man can give a damn good sounding speech. He spoke about the journey of our culture from not letting a black man into a restaurant to having a black man lead our nation. He then moved on to talk about how he wants to be friends with everyone in all nations, but those who vow to commit terroristic acts and slay innocents will be stopped, and our nation’s defense will not be compromised. However, it was of course filled with empty platitudes, but I won’t dwell on that today.

Overall the ceremony was good, aside from the slip-up during the oath. But I would like to say this to republicans and all who are opposed to Obama politically: Lets not be like the liberals for the past eight years. Let us not meet Barrack Obama with hatred and disgust. Support our Commander in Chief, he is our leader, but be there for every mistake that he makes. Be there and challenge his poor decisions, but always remember to respect the office that he serves.

God Bless America.