Climate Destruction

When climatology was novel, it was thought humanity was facing a fifth Ice Age, with all its terrifying destructive potential. Indeed, the mid to late 20th Century saw spectacular snow events. Snow piled up over people’s heads, closed down cities and towns, blocked railways and roadways. People took it in stride, adapted, made the best of it. Ski resorts were a growth industry, studded snow tires hit the market, snowmobiles became popular. School was cancelled, children went sledding, built snow forts. It’s a winter wonderland!

By the advent of the new millennium, three-day blizzards had become a rarity in the US. Less snow cover, and hotter, drier summers gave rise to a theory that Earth’s biosphere was gradually warming. Famous glaciers in Europe melted back, enormous bergs detached from previously stable Antarctic sea ice, Kilimanjaro lost its fabled snows. The phenomenon was dubbed “global warming” to reflect its omnipresence, yet uni-directionality. The frightening scenario of a feedback loop of runaway global warming in which Earth’s ambient temperature rises steadily until there is no liquid water to be found on the surface spurred an environmental movement purposed to limit such warming to preserve human habitat. Global warming was said to threaten the economy, threaten national security, threaten human existence, even threaten Earth Herself with planetary destruction. As stewards of Earth, many humans took it upon themselves to Stop Global Warming. Very noble! 

Deadlines for tipping points were set, and passed repeatedly without attendant climate failure. Floods and droughts, freezes and heat-waves seemed more severe than previously, taking an alarming toll of burgeoning human populations residing on marginal lands, but in terms of overall ambient temperature they canceled each other out. Not wanting to appear ridiculous, weather alarmists reframed the crisis as “climate change”. Climate change theory differs from global warming theory in that it is not uni-directional. An extended period of no net increase in ambient temperatures is not antithetical to climate change theory. Duration, depth and damage of weather events are today’s parameters of climate change. The rallying cry of atmosphere stability activists is Stop Climate Change! Very noble! But stupid.

Whereas with global warming theory, it is obvious should such a trend continue for many years, presently inhabited territories could become inhospitable for humans, or even life itself; with climate change theory, any change is cause for alarm, whether temperature climbs or drops. Fear of change is a human quality. All animals live where they are until they die. Humans, however, can foresee the effects upon their lives of changing conditions, and actively desire conditions not to change. Yanomamo, Tuareg, Inuit all prefer their home town to remain familiar, whether forest, desert or tundra. Radical environmental change results in dispossession, displacement, disaster for tribal man and urbane man. Can change be stopped? 

Everywhere are signs of cataclysmic Earth changes: mountains thrust skyward by tectonic pressure, then ground down by the weight of miles-deep ice sheet that covered half the planet, remains of marine life thousands of feet above current sea level, indigenous artifacts dredged from deep water offshore attest to radical shifts in surface conditions of global scope. Widespread vulcanism covered Earth with blankets of ash yards thick, repeatedly. Marine deposits on high plateaus are mute witness to towering tidal surges that flooded entire continents. Aggregates of shredded trees and crushed animal bones point to cataclysmic events that destroyed entire ecosystems. Huge craters in Canada, Arizona, Mexico prove that Earth has been struck by space objects large enough to perturb the planet’s trajectory through the cosmos, and rotational momentum, repeatedly. Such perturbations cause sheer forces that propel continents and displace seas. Though Earth changes on such a scale have not been seen for over 2,000 years, there are historical accounts of terrain upheaval, flooding, and space objects. Bible stories about the great flood, and parting of the waters may be allegory about the potency of the Word of God, or may be based on true fact of abrupt changes in sea level during the Age of Man. Any such cataclysmic events occurring today would certainly destroy modern civilization and kill most of humanity, as excavated sites show has occurred, repeatedly. Lithosphere stability activists should be chanting Stop Earth Change! 

Actually that is not so absurd as it might seem. Today the old saw Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it! is obsolete. The foundation of the global warming/climate change paradigm is Earth’s ambient temperature is controlled by atmospheric carbon dioxide – the so-called greenhouse effect. Though CO2 concentration in clean air is less than a tenth of a percent, minute increases in CO2 concentrations are said to cause significant increases in retention of solar heat, causing warming. What is the cause of minute increases in CO2 concentration? People - human beings, 21st Century hominids.

Everything people do releases CO2. From switching on a light, to eating a burger, to starting a car, to the very act of exhaling a breath, all humans release CO2 into the atmosphere constantly. Carbon is the essential building block of all life on Earth, extracted from airborne CO2 by plants to build tissue. But how much is enough? Human generated CO2 causes climate change! Stop Human Caused Climate Change! inevitably progresses to Stop Humans!

Or does it? Appealing as a popular mea culpa may be to billions facing unwanted change, the numbers do not add up. The effect of all of civilization’s pollution today is less than that of a single volcanic eruption that propelled hundreds of billions of tons of particulates and CO2 into the atmosphere in a single event. That was less than 150 years ago. Good thing there’s no video, or people might conclude it is not their fault.

Infatuation with “carbon pollution” is a smokescreen, so the speak, providing cover for more potent, and more menacing cause of atmospheric warming – radiation. Certainly solar radiation warms Earth, which without sunshine would be a lifeless, frozen space rock. Add to that the effect of 2200 detonations of nuclear weapons, Three Mile Island, Chernoble, and Fukujima all of which spewed tons of hot radioactive isotopes high into the sky to destroy the ozone layer. Super power radar arrays cause ionospheric heating that shapes wind patterns, forms storms and triggers earthquakes. For years militaries have boasted weather modification technique is a main battle force multiplier. The technology exists. The question becomes: Would power-mad alien nihilists use it? Stop High Altitude Climate Change!

Reverend Doktor C. Sarian

Mid Coast Sub Church of Paranoia

Church of the SubGenius 

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