[TheForge] Fw: Can't compete w/ this

[Andrew Vida]

rfertner at cox.net wrote:
> Global warming is a crock. 

	I'm a skeptic.  I cannot say that it is bull or that it has merit.  As 
John von Neumann said, there is no point in being precise when you don't 
even know what you are talking about.  The ice record shows us 
something, but there is no reason to believe that we know how to 
interpret the data.  Who knows what may happen to gases trapped in ice 
over the course of a million years' time?  The climatologists may be 
right, and they may not.  Even if they are, what is to be done?  Undo 
the past 200 years of the industrial revolution?  Then what?  Go back to 
screwing goats and living in caves?  The "solutions" are always only 
indirectly referenced.  "We must reduce greenhouse gases".  Brilliant, 
Einstein.  How?  The proverbial "they" will assert that we must all make 
sacrifices.  When god pops out from behind a cloud and says so, then I 
may listen.  Otherwise, go screw yourselves.

As George pointed out, the elitist vermin appear to be making no notable 
sacrifices.  I'd say that flying hither thither only 3 times a month 
rather than 4 ain't much of a sacrifice.  Nor is turning down the 
thermostat 2* in one of your seven 65,000 square foot houses.

Given the way the political winds seem to be blowing, the day may come 
when "all men are created equal" passes like a fart into a hurricane.  I 
can see a time when one class will assert authority over others and 
force them to behave in altered ways.  Nothing new in this.  The only 
question will be how to respond.  I have my notions about this.

At this point, I see the global warming issue as social engineering. 
The po' will become mo' po' and the rich will have ever more at their 
disposal.  Smells like a great steaming pile to me, in terms of how it 
is being used.