Global Warming is a Red Herring

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“Those of us who are not Republicans nevertheless have a huge stake in this fall's elections, because the current administration in Washington is not merely deficient but dangerous, both at home and abroad. [...] Increasing numbers of Americans are saying that they are having trouble recognizing the country in which they were born and grew up. They will have even more trouble recognizing America if the Washington juggernaut does not lose a substantial part of its power in this year's election. [...] The dangers are not only in domestic policy but even more so in the Obama administration's foreign policy. Their diddling around while fanatical leaders of a terrorist-sponsoring nation like Iran are moving toward producing nuclear bombs can take us and the world to a point of no return.” [emphasis added]
— Thomas Sowell, January 19, 2010 (Townhall)

Proponents of the global-warming hysteria may or may not be prescient about their favorite doomsday scenario. But that particular scenario is irrelevant in the real world we live in. The reason is simple — there is a more immediate doomsday scenario looming that, from the standpoint of human existence, makes global warming moot.

I am reminded of an old physics joke: A physicist gives a talk to an audience of interested laymen about the natural evolution of a star like our own sun. After the talk, a very worried man approaches the physicist and asks him to clarify when the ultimate catastrophe, wherein the sun becomes a red giant and essentially fries the earth to a crisp, will occur. "In about five billion years," answers the physicist. "Thank god," replies the worried man. "I thought you had said million!"

The Iranian fanatics are within a year or three of getting their bloody hands on nuclear weapons. That would not be an "ultimate" calamity for earth. But it would surely be the most immediate calamity facing Western civilization as we know it. And a very real precursor for such a looming calamity would be the upcoming November elections if our electorate preserves the Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress.

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