2012! We're all doomed!

If you're as old as me, you've lived through more than one of those "end of the world" days. I remember in middle school the entire student body was so upset that it was rumored that on a particular day the world was going to come to end; the day came and went and here I am to talk about.

As we approach the 2012, there will be more hype as a new era predicted by the Mayan calendar begins. As our eminent demise looms more closely, I predict GOREBAL alarmist will tell us that the Mayans predicted our own self destruction, and I'm sure that many will be enticed to follow along; why not, it makes good news!

So why am I bringing this up now? Well, according to this editorial by Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe, Oleg Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and senior scientist at Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanography is quoted as saying..

"The latest data . . . say that earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012."

Wouldn't that be something?! How would we ever go about warming the earth?! Perhaps it will be recommended that we sell the SUV's that we traded in for eco-friendly automobiles to the world's poorest populations so they can idle them, increase CO2 emisions and save us all! However, don't expect ALGORE to give up his SUV for that cause either.

Jeff Jacoby has been cited in this blog before. He does a good job of sifting through the buffoonery that is the "shock-and-awe" of the supposedly intellectually gifted environmental movement. Here are some highlights of the article:

"Stock up on fur coats and felt boots!" advises Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and senior scientist at Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanography. "The latest data . . . say that earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012."

A re-emphasis of the obvious...

"Carbon dioxide is not to blame for global climate change," Sorokhtin writes in an essay for Novosti. "Solar activity is many times more powerful than the energy produced by the whole of humankind."

The inescapbale truth (unless you're the lame-stream media):

Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it's up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That raises some obvious questions about the theory that CO{-2} is the cause of climate change.

And the conclusion?

Because slashing carbon dioxide emissions means retarding economic development, they warned, "the current US approach of CO{-2} reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease it."

How painfully obvious is it becoming that we are in the midst of the biggest swindle in the history our species? How is it have we come down this road? How far must we travel before we start asking some serious questions?

Ultimately, as we shudder in cold and wrap ourselves blankets, ALGORE will be disgraced, or they will retool their theory to explain why their messiah, in this case, Mr. Heatmiser, hasn't presented himself.

Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?

By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / January 6, 2008