Wishing Al Gore Would Shut Up, Why I Am A Global Warming Doubter, Part 2 - Problem Solving 101

Yesterday, we reviewed the classless act, in light of the current suffering of victims of Hurricane Sandy, and what we classified as “garbage science” of Al Gore with regards to the theory of man made global warming. We noted how we had previously discussed the scientific potential of the falsehood of man made global warming in the following two posts:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-am-global-warming-doubter-and.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-am-global-warming-doubter-and.htm

We also reviewed a simple to understand and simple to execute plan that would address the problem independent of whether or not man made global warming is a reality:

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/02/united-states-of-purple-presidency_09.html

This solution would solve many real problems and address the potential problem of man made global warming in such a way that was market driven, was fair, kept any additional wealth out of the hands of our politicians, and did not need a huge government bureaucracy that would likely be inefficient and ineffective, like every other government bureaucracy.

Given that setup and background, today’s topic is to review what an adult conversation and problem solving process might look like relative to man made global warming. It is a conversation that people like Al Gore refuse to have, relying instead on only one set of scientific investigations and calling those not on his side a serious of insulting and frankly, slanderous names.

Problem solving does not have to be complicated. This exercise will consist of a simple set of yes/no answers to get to the root cause and root solution of the problem. How might that process flow:

A) Is there a global warming trend underway? The latest data from temperature monitoring locations around the world show that the earth’s temperature has been unchanged for the past 16 years. Thus, one could make the case that global warming is a fallacy and that would end the discussion.

B) But let’s assume that other analyses indicate there is global warming. Then the next question becomes whether or not the global warming is caused by mankind’s activities. If we believe the folks at the world famous CERN scientific organization in Europe, an organization with impeccable scientific credentials, who have shown that global warming, while occurring, is not the result of mankind activities but solar activity, then the discussion would end. This is because no matter what we do it will not impact global warming since mankind is not causing it.

C) But let’s assume that the unchanged global temperature results are wrong and that CERN screwed up somehow, what if there is global warming going on and mankind’s activities are contributing to it. Then the next logical question: are we too late to stop the process?

If we cannot stop the global warming process, then we need to start activities that protects resources, food production processes, vulnerable coastlines, etc. since trying to reverse unstoppable global warming will divert wealth, resources, and attention away from the fortification process.

4) But let’s say our analyses show that we can stop mankind’s contribution to global warming. How would we stop the process.

Putting a massive, bureaucratic, inefficient, and ineffective cap and trade process in place in the U.S. would be an abject failure. Why? Consider some reality and documented facts from Step 25 of “Love My Country, Loathe My Government:”

• When “Love My Country, Loathe My Government” was published in 2009, China and India were expected to bring at least EIGHT HUNDRED coal power plants by 2012 to handle their growing populations and economies. As most global warming advocates will tell you, coal burning plants are major contributors to global warming
• Although I do not know this as a fact, I would assume that pollution control was not a major consideration in bringing so many coal plants on line so quickly.
• Just these new power plants are expected to burn NINE HUNDRED MILLION tons of coal every year. Obviously, their existing coal fired plants would add more.
• Just these additional power plants will dump and additional 2.5 BILLION tons of global warming gases into the atmosphere ever year.
• These numbers do not include the additional coal plants brought on line by other growing economies like Brazil.
• Since the book and these statistics were published, China’s annual industrial output of global warming gases has surpassed the output of the United States.

Thus, it would make no sense to put severe limits on United States global warming activity via some monstrosity like cap and trade. Such limits would increase living costs of Americans, restrict our global competitive economic position, and reduce domestic economic growth for no reason since no matter how much we reduced our bad global warming behavior it would make no difference in light of what China and the rest of the world is doing.
In addition, there is no way our current Federal government entities and the politicians who operate them could even execute a half decent cap and trade program.

What would be needed at this point is a worldwide effort to have EVERYONE curb their global warming activities to keep the economic playing field level. Thus, if we got this far down our decision and problem solving process, Obama and Gore should not be badgering the U.S. economy and its businesses and citizens, they should be overseas getting the entire world involved. That's called leadership, a trait that has grown extinct in our current political class.

This is the discussion and problem solving approach that needs to happen if we are to ever get out of the rut of name calling and inaction, a game that Al Gore propagates. Mr. Gore immediately jumps to Step D without considering all of the scientific data and findings available, without considering the fact there are other causes of global warming, without considering whether we are too late to stop the process if it exists, and looks only domestically while this is a worldwide situation that requires a worldwide solution in order to not burden U.S. citizens in a hopeless cause.

If there is no clear resolution to any of the discussion points and conclusions discussed above, we can still revert to the solution outlined in:

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/02/united-states-of-purple-presidency_09.html

As always with our political discussions relative to the issues of our times, emotion and irrationality prevails over problem solving techniques. And Al Gore is the leader of the irrationality wing.

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