Carbon is coming! Carbon is coming!

Carbon dioxide is coming and it is heating the planet. Why do we know this? Because anti-growth extremists tell us so. What is their science? It's political science. They tell us that carbon dioxide is a "green house gas" that will raise the temperature of the world. They say that it is their scientific observations that tells them so.

So I ask what are the scientific observations? Well, there aren't any. More than a decade ago these same "scientists" told our legislators that we needed sophisticated satellites to measure the heating of the upper atmosphere so that we might get a look at the future heating of the planet. America spent several billion dollars, that's with a B, to launch these satellites. And what did they find? That the upper atmosphere is COOLING!

So the good political scientists removed upper atmosphere temperature from their global warming model. Then they told us that glaciers are melting. Some are! But more are gaining in size. How do these same political scientists deal with this fact? They ignore the growth of glaciers while they publicize the small percentage that are shrinking.

So if glaciers aren't shrinking, why is the sea level rising? It isn't! That 's another urban myth told by the political scientists and their adherents. Sea level charting in Oceana and on major coasts tells us that development near the shore has caused more erosion but the sea level is actually the same or even lower in many places.

So why do progressives embrace global warming and many other unsubstantiated concepts and theories? I can't say because I don't understand why they embrace Fidel Castro or Arafat or the North Koreans. Many still worship Saddam Hussein even after we have uncovered the mass graves of over 200,000 children besides another 400,000 adults. And the past generation of left thinkers still mourn the loss of their best friend, the Soviet Union.

So where is the case for carbon dioxide as a pollutant? I'm still waiting for that myth to be explained.