Though I've been a solid proponent for
the existence of UFOs
over the decades (good grief, if one cannot believe overwhelming high-level
witness testimony, radar tracks and the like, what should one believe?), I get
the impression that by virtue of being peculiarly open-minded I'm supposed to
re-direct my tinfoil hat and embrace man-made climate change in a loving
manner, no questions asked, because, well, it's the thing of the moment. Something a little different, the current
bandwagon, ready-made for rebels in search of a cause. Like UFOs.
Not.
Sorry, no can do. New satellite studies, apparently far more
accurate than earth-based counterparts, paint a different picture than the fix
required by, primarily, leftist doomsayers and international thieves. In fact, as seems customary much of the time,
the best evidence for something originates by way of a common sense
investigation. Unfortunately, common
sense is now a luxury shared among the few anymore, with most street-crowd
noisemakers having an inborn necessity to choose panic, rage and exotic
solutions over what could be interpreted accurately simply by looking at what
lies before one's eyes. To make
important decisions based upon part of the science, rather than all of the
science (or science's ongoing evolution), seems to be standard policy now. No longer is climate allowed to choose its
own course. Now, its actions must be
questioned, poked and surrendered to international regulatory commissions, and
the blame and expense is to be placed around our necks, no questions asked
accepted.
Echoes of
Copernicus and Bruno. Can we not hear
them? Can we not feel on our faces every
day the evidence of their profundity, as the sun's warmth invigorates our
senses?
More important
-- do we not understand the power of solar energy upon our small planet? Does it take a genius to question whether the
sun itself is the culprit for "global warming" and other effects upon
climate?
Currently, if
one steps forth as a man-made climate change denier, he or she may as
well go off in the woods and talk to oneself.
How reminiscent
this is of poor Copernicus, who dared suggest centuries ago that the Earth
revolved around the sun, that the Earth was not the center of attraction for
the sun and other heavenly objects --
and later, mathematician, theologian and philosopher Giordano Bruno
sealed his own death warrant by embracing and expounding upon Copernican
calculations.
Today, we suffer
legislators who actually wish to imprison, fine and punish in every legally
sanctioned way possible those who deny human-induced climate change, no matter
the science on this "other" side.
Except for a death penalty, members of the punishing class exhibit
little difference from those grand masters of The Inquisition.
Bruno, born in
1548 near Naples, was probably a genius, but his lifetime, much like ours,
wasn't always an era when original thinking was appreciated. Indeed, Bruno was burned at the stake by The
Inquisition in 1600 for daring to endorse Copernicus and rip apart further more
than a thousand years of Church doctrine stating that the Earth was the center
of the cosmos. This was hardly his only
blasphemy, of course, because Bruno, during his young and quickly deflated
life, had questioned a wealth of "known" scientific dogma. Prior to being burned at the stake in Rome in
February of 1600, having refused to deny any of his philosophical or evidential
teachings, Bruno was condemned as "an impenitent and pertinacious
heretic."
Truly, nobody
can deny climate change, which has always involved natural, and occasionally
intense cycles around the globe. But to
endorse human involvement is a long shot scientifically because we're dealing
with computer predictions vs. clearly observable data. Yes, we have polluted the Earth substantially
and a cleanup of both water and land is urgently required. However, our influence upon climate
alterations may be trace at best, not something allowing international leftists
to pickpocket our money -- and surely not with papal and U.S. presidential
cooperation, which would be no mere scandal.
Simply look to the sun, son.
That's where the power of change hides in plain sight. Among radical environmentalists, how is it
that the sun becomes the elephant sitting in the living room, unnoticed and
unwanted at the party? The answer, as
usual, may be. . .follow the money.
Indeed, the
man-made climate deniers appear to be the true heretics in this era of
pseudo-science and frauds aplenty..
Getting back to The Inquisition, we are reminded of Galileo Galilei,
condemned in blistering fashion by the Church for his writing, The Authority of Scripture in Philosophical
Controversies, in which he
offered: "It is surely harmful to
souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
I'm not sure
that Galileo himself wouldn't be shaking his head over what passes for climate
and "global warming" science in the current century, let alone our
reliance upon computers as modern soothsayers attempting to outsmart solar
influence.
