Speaking of Green New Deal silliness, United Nations Agendae-from-Hell, atmospheric carbon dioxide sensitivity, and armies of loons who insist “we’re all gonna die” in a few decades (12 years, according to Alexandria Occasional-Cortex), it’s worth asking the question “how sensitive is the Earth to human activity?”
Walter E. Williams, one of my favorite authors, addresses this in a post found here at Newsbusters. A sample:
Let’s examine just a few cataclysmic events that exceed any destructive power of mankind and then ask how our purportedly fragile planet could survive. The 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, in present-day Indonesia, had the force of 200 megatons of TNT. That’s the equivalent of 13,300 15-kiloton atomic bombs, the kind that destroyed Hiroshima in World War II. Before that was the 1815 Tambora eruption, the largest known volcanic eruption. It spewed so much debris into the atmosphere that 1816 became known as the “Year Without a Summer.” It led to crop failures and livestock death in the Northern Hemisphere, producing the worst famine of the 19th century. The A.D. 535 Krakatoa eruption had such force that it blotted out much of the light and heat of the sun for 18 months and is said to have led to the Dark Ages. Geophysicists estimate that just three volcanic eruptions — Indonesia (1883), Alaska (1912) and Iceland (1947) — spewed more carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than all of mankind’s activities during our entire history.
It should be noted that things were back to normal in less than two years in most of these cases, sometimes less than one.
As we go through the yearly cycle from fresh-and-wet Spring, to boiling hot Summer, to the fragrant cool breezes of Autumn and on to the frozen bleak beauty of Winter, it is worth taking a moment to celebrate Seasons and the richness they add to our lives. Living in a stagnant, homogeneous climate is not a natural or happy place for most of humanity.
But the greenies want us to believe that stasis would be Nirvana, and threaten to imprison us if we don’t agree with their lunatic fears of climate change. What a grey existence. Sad people, these.
We aren’t going to “destroy” the planet any time soon. Lean back and imagine the ice tea you will be enjoying on your porch, watching life return as it always does in the spring that’s just around the corner now.