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CO2 is not a pollutant
One of the most ridiculous claims made by Algore and his mind-numbed zittoheads is that CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a pollutant and a major source of global warming. A little market research would tell even a rather simple-minded child this assertion is false on its face. To quote Wikipedia on the subject:
Carbon dioxide is produced by all animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms during respiration and is used by plants during photosynthesis. This is to make sugars which may either be consumed again in respiration or used as the raw material for plant growth. It is, therefore, a major component of the carbon cycle.
All living organisms produce CO2 simply by exhaling. But what is waste-gas to us is food for plant life! Without CO2, plant life would perish, which includes all major food sources for organic life. This is the work of a pollutant? I think not.
CO2, it is true, can be deadly to humans in too high a concentration over a prolonged period, but it is not a pollutant. The simple fact is that each year, volcanic eruptions distribute more alleged ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere than has any human activity from the time of the industrial revolution to present. To say human activity and human-caused CO2 production is the cause of global warming is naive, underinformed and outright false.
Truth is, CO2 is found most heavily in the Earth’s oceans, and through the evaporation cycle, the world’s oceans themselves pump more CO2 into the atmosphere than volcanoes, industry and cow farts combined.
Are we clear, yet?
NASA ’71: Humans the cause of coming ice age
Thanks mainly to a maniacal Algore and his mind-numbed robots (whom I will from hereon term “zittoheads” given the eco-friendly unwashed state of these idiots), most people think the planet is hurtling headlong into transforming into a ball of fire due to “global warming” caused by man’s use of fossil fuels.
But at least one scientist on Algore’s list of “qualified scientists” who agree with him actually was a “new Ice Age” proponent only 36 years ago. And he blamed the same culprit.
According to Investors.com, “On July 9, 1971, the [Washington] Post published a story headlined “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming.” It told of a prediction by NASA and Columbia University scientist S.I. Rasool. The culprit: man’s use of fossil fuels.”
The Investors.com tale spins this way: one of the folks who helped Rasool come to his “new Ice Age” conclusion was a computer scientist named Dr. James Hansen, who was apparently a Columbia University research assistant at the time.
Dr. Hansen’s views have run the gauntlet in the past 36 years, from a new Ice Age believer to someone who didn’t worry about fossil fuels affecting global temperatures, to his current position of being an Algore zittohead.
Yes, we all know scientific theories are supposed to be disprovable; no one ever expected, however, that scientists like Dr. Hansen would treat scientific theories like a game of hopscotch. Apparently his scientific positions change almost as rapidly as market research results.
Way to pick some “qualified scientific opinions” to form your mythical “consensus” there, Al! With buddies like Dr. James Hansen, your enemies can just stand on the sidelines and watch you and your convenient lie implode all on its own.
After all, as Investors.com opined, “If Hansen wants to change positions again, the time is now. With NASA having recently revised historical temperature data that Hansen himself compiled, the door has been opened for him to embrace the ice age projections of the early 1970s. Could be he’s feeling a little chill in the air again.”
Stallone bringing back Rambo?
Long known as one of Hollywood’s more prominent closet-conservatives – or at least, someone in Hollywood more conservative than, say, Oliver Stone – Sylvester Stallone, fresh off his success as Rocky in the sixth film of the series this past winter, Rocky Balboa, is deep in the middle of filming his fourth – and likely last – film based on Vietnam war veteran John Rambo.
The new film, which currently has a working title of Rambo 4, has Stallone as both the director of the film as well as the star. However, fresh off an Aussie drug bust in which the actor was caught with about 48 vials of performance-enhancing steriods, Stallone has decided to use a 30-year-old body double this time out. Stallone did not use a body double in Rocky Balboa.
The new film is expected in 2008, 20 years after the last installment, Rambo 3, was released in 1988. Back then, Stallone had just his his 40s. He is currently 60.
The eye-opening thing about Rambo 4, however, is that the ultra-violent mercenary is now being re-envisioned as a Christian warrior working for a group of missionaries as they spread the gospel and humanitarian aid in Burma. As unlikely as it sounds, keep in mind that a stronger religious theme played well to conservative audiences in Rocky Balboa. Making a similar shift of focus for the John Rambo character could be trickier, but Stallone has proven his mastery of market research with Rocky Balboa, which was pushed heavily in Christian markets and media; perhaps Stallone can go to that well one more time.
