No matter how one tries to ignore the obvious….you just cannot….not when it attacks you mentally every waking moment of every day…..our Sista Sarah is just such a venue…..just when you thought there was a lull in the amazing story of Sista Sarah….she drags you back in….yelling and screaming……No matter how hard one tries to let that story or chapter die….it is not physically possible for it to die……
The saga begins in the early hours of 8 Dec 09 when our heroine said:
that President Obama “boycott” an international conference on climate change underway in Copenhagen, because some hacked e-mails questioning the ethics of some scientists at a university in Great Britain have given the obstinate opposition to the concept of global warming.
We all know that she thinks that climate change is a made up story and went so far as to call Gore on it in an op-ed in the WaPo when she said the climate change was like “gravity. It exists”.
Gore to Palin:
“The north polar ice cap has been there for 3 million years, the size of the continental United States, and it is disappearing before our very eyes. What do the skeptics think is causing that? Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that we are putting 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere here every 24 hours and that these consequences have been predicted for decades by the scientists?”
To which Palin tweeted:
“amazing 2 see Al Gore’s denial of the controversy–it’s like denying gravity”
Okay the media game of tag….the gotcha of politics……and then Laura Ingraham of FOX News brought up the prospect of a debate between Palin and Gore…..to which the reply was:
Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum. Because Laura, as you know, if it would be some kind of conventional, traditional debate with his friends setting it up or being the commentators I’ll get clobbered because, you know, they don’t want to listen to the facts. They don’t want to listen to some reasonable voices in this. And that was proven with the publication of this op-ed, where they kind of got all we-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers of changing weather patterns and climate conditions. Trying to make the issue into something that it is not.
So far that is the story…..it is she said…he said…..and the prospect of a debate on the issue of climate change is not an option…..well, we could have the debate but it would have to be by Sista Sarah’s rules….meaning that she can go off topic whenever she wanted but her opponent could not.
Personally, I would enjoy the debate and I think it would either make or break Sista Sarah in the process…..but of course….no matter what she does the people that love her will continue to do so and vice versa…..you betcha!
The serious (and utterly amazing) point here is that she is actually right, or partly so at least. It’s an established fact that these same scientists fully agree on that the Earth’s climate is constantly changing and has been hotter than our current temperate period in the past, as well as much colder too.
Three million years is no more than the blink of an eye in geological terms – humanity in some of it’s versions is almost certainly considerably older than that.
The difficulty that is obscured both by the weirdos and Luddites (mostly of the left) who are automatically convinced of the disasters that await mankind if we don’t go back to horses and caves and recycle every bit of shit we produce and by the rabid right who deny everything out of hand that won’t make them money.
But, whilst there is clearly merit in theory that greenhouse contamination are causing the current round of global warming, it’s all based on the fact that it is happening NOW at the same time as humanity is industrialising the planet.
The most serious question we really DO have to try to determine is whether we really ARE responsible or not!
IF we’re not the cause to any great extent, then although we will DESPERATELY need to try to ameliorate the worst results of this, we may be up shit creek without a paddle (Brit expression???) – IF we are kidding ourselves that it’s us and it’s not, our reaction to things to come may need to be utterly different from what is proposed. I don’t say we should ignore it – that’s the Palin “head in the sand” solution, but the total unquestioning belief in the slightly dodgy science is just as unhelpful.
The difficulty of halting the effects of all this could be VERY much harder than any of us dreams! We simply need to KNOW the truth!!!
Of course, since Palin’s world is only 6000 years old, it shouldn’t really be a problem because it’ll all swing back to normal by the end of the weeek, won’t it? 😈
swing back by the end of the week…..good one…….very funny…….but if you fl;ipping believe thatr it is only 6000 years old…then it is feasible…….