Dishonest Donald denies that global warming is occurring. He is hoisting the flag of
anti-intellectualism in order to lead the reactionary charge against all things
scientific. His kind of medieval and muddled
thinking should have died out long ago but atavistic “throw-backs” do occur and
he is the living proof.
A government report just came out (11.23.18) that concluded
just the opposite of what the president tweeted. Based on the collective scientific efforts of
hundreds of scientists, the report concludes that the future will be extremely
costly for the U.S. if more is not done to check global warming:
“Climate change will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of
billions of dollars by the end of the century, hitting everything from health
to infrastructure, according to a government report . . . .
“Global warming would disproportionately hurt the poor,
broadly undermine human health, damage infrastructure, limit the availability
of water, alter coastlines, and boost costs in industries from farming, to
fisheries and energy production, the report said.”
(from cnbc.com “The Fourth National Climate Assessment
Volume II”, Nov. 23, 2018, Reuters.)
One can also check out NASA’s website for a concise explanation
of global warming and the extensive science behind it. You can find it at climate.nasa.gov which
includes a page devoted to Global Climate Change with sections on “Images of
Change” and “Climate Time Machine.”
Dishonest Donald points to cold weather in New York and gets
that smug look of stupefied mediocrity upon his face with which we’ve become
all too familiar. Seasons continue to exist
as do vicissitudes of daily weather—as distinct from changes in long-term
planetary climatic conditions.
He does not understand that the overwhelming majority of
scientists agree that human-caused climate change is real and continuing. If he knew how to read, he could have learned
that no one ever said global warming meant that every spot on earth would be
steadily warmer than the day before.
That’s a figment of Dishonest Donald’s diseased
imagination. Egomania corrupts reason
and narcissism corrupts comprehension.
Even if serious reading is a skill beyond his mastery,
Dishonest Donald could check out from the public library a book like Al Gore’s
“An Inconvenient Truth” and look at the pictures: the disappearing glaciers at
the top of mountains, for example, or what’s happening beyond the Arctic
Circle.
The fact is, Dishonest Donald never seems interested in educating
himself where it involves any amount of effort or dispassionate reasoning based
upon scientific evidence. He appears to
be wholly incapable of rational and objective thought under any and all such
circumstances.
You know, deserts are places on the earth where very little
rain falls. If Dishonest Donald were standing
in a desert on one of those rare days where rain occurs, do you care to guess what
would he conclude? He would announce
that the definition of a desert as a place with little rain is all wrong! This is a grown man acting like he has the
mind of a six-year-old . . . and not a very bright six-year-old at that.
The warming pattern is derived from many scientific criteria
and averages measured over years, decades, centuries, and millennia. The conclusions are based on a massive amount
of evidence collected by thousands of scientists around the world over the last
half-century.
The prediction was never for one single steadily
increasingly, ever-worsening heat wave. No, the prediction states that extremes of
weather will worsen, including droughts, storms, floods, and yes, even cold
snaps and blizzards. Scientists
understand and can explain the cause-and-effect between global warming and
these extreme weather events, including cold weather.
The first time we heard the phrase “once-in-a-hundred year” event
(gigantic floods, a storm like Sandy, etc.) it seemed pretty scary but perhaps
an anomaly—only now we are hearing such statistical phrasing far more
frequently. The anomaly that was the
exception is rapidly becoming the new norm.
There are sound reasons, well understood by climatologists,
why such extreme weather events are continuing to increase in frequency,
duration, and severity due to global warming--as recent history amply demonstrates.
Dishonest Donald’s poles are mixed up. He has stupidity where intelligence should
be, ignorance in place of knowledge, meanness in place of compassion.
Dishonest Donald has been put together backwards. He loves to contradict, bully, and bamboozle
but nonsense repeated day after day doesn’t cease to be nonsense.
There are ways to measure carbon dioxide emissions in the
air and trace them to their human sources.
What the president suggests defies both logic and the laws of nature, of
elemental physics.
He prefers to indulge the desire to live in an imaginary
fantasyland where whatever he says would be believed and no one would ever be
allowed to disagree with any of his wretchedly foolish and idiotic
pronouncements. He doesn’t seem to get
“Freedom of Speech”, Education, or Science in America.
There is a place called the Great Pacific garbage patch
where thousands of tons of plastic are swirling together in an unholy mix:
“The plastic concentration is estimated to be up to 100
kilograms her square kilometer in the center . . . An estimated 80,000 tons of
plastic inhabit the patch, totaling 1.8 trillion pieces . . . Research
indicates that the patch is rapidly accumulating.” (from Wikipedia, “Great
Pacific garbage patch”.)
This is just one of five such patches or gyres in the
Pacific Ocean; there’s another called the North Atlantic garbage patch as well. Plastic is a human-made product. Would Dishonest Donald have us believe that
the plastic did not emanate from human sources?
Imagine filling a bathtub with water, adding food coloring,
watching the color of the water change and then hear someone suggest that the
colored water has no relationship to the added food coloring!
Imagine building mills, mines, and factories near streams,
creeks, and rivers and dumping all sorts of horrific waste byproducts into the
water and then claiming human activity has nothing to do with the toxicity of
the water! Historically, this is exactly
what took place during the Industrial Revolution.
Imagine the millions of pounds of greenhouse gases being poured
constantly into the atmosphere and thinking that it has no effect on
anything! This defies both the laws of
physics and common sense.
At a time when America needs an educated, intelligent, and
far-seeing visionary in the White House to recognize and address these urgent
crises, we get instead a reincarnated wreck from the superstitious past, a man
incapable of comprehending even the simplest examples of scientific inquiry and
fact-based conclusions.
He is evolving backwards, it appears. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.
