What is "being green" to you?
If you're from my generation (child of the late '70s), you've been green most of your life. Cleaning up after ourselves and not being a "litterbug" is ingrained in our psyche. We've known about overflowing landfills, low-flow toilets, smog and oil spills since we can remember. Most of us have been recycling since the dawn of aluminum cans. We know that composting is good for our planet as well as our plants. Sometimes, we second guess an aerosol can by checking for the "CFCs". Our entire lives, we've been aware of the hormones in dairy & meat as well as the methane released by cows! The rain-forests matter and we better keep our water clean! Some winters were extra cold, and some summers the hottest on record. Warm winters were appreciated and cool summers enjoyed, and either way, we enjoyed our environment.
But being green has sure evolved since I was a kid. It's less of a choice and more of a mandate. I mean, it's socially unacceptable to not recycle! We've learned that taking care of our planet is important; most of us respect and appreciate our environment without thinking twice about it. But now, in 2010, being green can turn into the biggest shift of wealth the world has ever seen.
Through the evolving "green movement", the government has funded studies proving that global warming is man-made. Non-governmental scientists who challenged the data through the years have been silenced. Peer-review studies are only done by those who agree with the global warming agenda - those who are paid to prove it's true.
Our planet goes through ebbs & flows of weather patterns. Two big indicators of weather are El Niño and La Niña. El Niño has warm oceanic temperatures which cause excessive rainfall & flooding in the southern United States and Peru. The flooding is caused by drought in the West Pacific. The drought can be associated with Australia brush fires, too. El Niño happens every 3-7 years. A study from Florida State University proved some positive effects of El Niño: reduces the intensity and number of Atlantic hurricanes and reduces the number of tornadoes in the central United States. La Niña has cold oceanic temperatures and causes the opposite of El Niño.
This bit of oceanic science goes a long way to showing how our earth works in cycles. You may remember the "hockey stick graph" that Al Gore used in his movie, The Inconvenient Truth, that showed a temperature spike in current times, which has fueled the "carbon footprint" movement. Before the movie hit the main screen, scientists around the world were challenging the science behind it and proved the numbers were skewed. I found this in-depth research article titled The Hockey Stick: A New Low in Climate Science, from the early 2000s.
Using evidence from different oceans and glaciers around the world where marine organisms were radiocarbon dated and studied. The real temperature graph should look like this:
It's actually a little cooler today than it was 500 years ago! These results are congruent with studies from other oceans and glaciers. And on top of it, a story finally came out today in the BBC supporting the fact that many temperature gages around the planet have been recording higher temperatures because of artificial causes - like airplane engines, development and urbanism.
Is it as frightening to you as it is to me that our government and other world governments are legislating taxes and regulations on man-made global warming when there's proof showing otherwise? Are you starting to understand how "being green" has less to do with the environment and more to do with power and money?
Obama's joke during the State of the Union about global warming deniers not believing in "real science" was particularly offensive. Obama and the other "climate change believers" must know about the skewed data. These people are so powerful and connected that there's no way the information hasn't been presented. I believe that they are ignoring it and purposely demonizing anyone who doesn't believe to achieve a specific agenda: strengthening of US government control and transfers of wealth.
Just think "carbon credits", a topic deserving its own post.
It's a scam, folks. There's everything right with loving our planet and our environment and everything wrong with legislating fake science.
I'm green - I swear!!
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