Save the Planet - Cut Down a Tree

I can’t stop laughing at this. We’re not satisfied until we’ve screwed up every portion of the ecosystem that we can possibly screw up. We’re not satisfied until we control the uncontrollable.

I’ve ranted about the Church of Global Warming before, with no end of their dogmatic, unsupported stupidity in sight; but this just might take the crown for the moment. The problem is, too many trees may increase global warming!

You can read all about the bad, bad trees for yourself.

The gist of this latest assault on intelligence: trees may take in CO², but they emit methane at a staggering rate, accounting for a third of the atmospheric methane - which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO² is.

Coupled with cow farts, we must be doomed!

I have some hope. Someday, one of these worried eggheads my actually look up into the sky, see that large hydrogen explosion being held in check by it’s own gravity, and realize that it might have something more to do with climate changes than we do. At 3.86e33 ergs per second or 386 billion billion megawatts per second, even a 1% change in energy output is absolutely staggering at our orbital distance. After all, if it wasn’t for our magnetic field, we might as well be sitting in a microwave oven - all life as we know it would die. Even the atmosphere itself would be stripped off of the planet by solar wind, as has been happening to Mars since it lost it’s magnetic field.

Speaking of the Earth’s magnetic field, hasn’t it been dropping in strength over the last 100 years, in a pattern fitting the next magnetic pole flip? Far be it for me to suggest that a weakening magnetic field could have any play in our warming up.

Or what about this study? Or this one?

My point; we don’t understand all that drives our climate, from “greenhouse” gases to the sun itself. Since we don’t have all the variables at hand, our computer models are simply wrong.

Not that it matters. Even if I had absolute proof that the CO2 scare is all hype, the IPCC wouldn’t listen.

Perhaps IPCC should stand for International Paranoid Climate Crackpots?

Addendum: Sheryl Crow is promoting global warming by protecting trees in the call for limiting use of toilet paper. Bad, bad Sheryl Crow!