Gimme Dat New Age Religion!

Downtown Salt Lake City was the scene of a big religious revival Saturday, with thousands listening to music, singing, chanting, and learning of The Gospel.

The Gospel according to Al Gore, that is.

Yep, over 3,000 adherents of the newest of the New Age religions -- Gaia worship -- gathered in SLC to spread the Good Word. This was held in conjunction with other revivals across the nation. The goal is to preach the Good Word of Climate Change and force (via Congressional fiat) that everyone obeys it. I mean, cutting your carbon emissions by 80% in 43 years is going to take alot of sacrifice (and you damn well better do it, heretic).

But what about all that CO2 that the event itself emitted? I mean, celebrities and rock groups don't walk to these events, you know. And they don't even ride in electric cars, either. All those stretch limos and private jets have big carbon footprints.

Never fear, o ye of little faith. Our public utility, Rocky Mountain Power, stepped in and provided some indulgences in the form of carbon credits to absolve the participants for their frivolous gas-guzzling. I'm not sure how RMP stopped the emission of 11 tons of carbon; I don't remember them shutting down their coal- or gas-fired plants during the event. But they said they did it, and that's enough for those who Truly Believe.

That's the beauty of the indulgence carbon credit system: All it takes is a little donation to the environmentally-friendly charity of your choice, and Gaia will forgive all.

More Climate Change Nuttiness

In their zeal to convince everyone and anyone that "We're All Gonna DIE and It's George Bush's Fault" the Global Warming Believers and their mouthpieces in the LameStreamMedia have reached new highs (or lows) in ridiculousness. No lie is too obvious, no fact is beyond distortion for this crowd.

An example was found in today's Deseret News. In a story from the New York Times, Global Warming is now being called a national security issue. But true to form, some of the examples they use are completely invalid and laughably inaccurate.

For starters, they claim that "[t]he effects of global warming...could lead to large-scale migrations, increased border tensions, the spread of disease and conflicts over food and water. All could lead to direct involvement by the U.S. military."

Hmmm. Could Global Warming really produce all that chaos? Helpfully, Peter Schwartz, a consultant on the panel provided some examples, such as:

"Just look at Somalia in the early 1990s," Schwartz said. "You had disruption
driven by drought, leading to the collapse of a society, humanitarian relief
efforts, and then disastrous U.S. military intervention. That event is
prototypical of the future."

Yes, Somalia was indeed in a famine in the early 1990's, but that was largely due to a massive civil war that disrupted the lines of supply. And the US relief efforts were hardly "disastrous"; the original deployment of troops stopped the fighting and restored the aid shipments.

Somalia didn't become "disastrous" until military novice Bill Clinton withdrew most of the troops and then tried to nab warload Mohammed Farah Aidid with a few hundred lightly-armed Army Rangers.

Not satisified with that non-sequitur, the paper contains this hilarious gem:

Other recent studies have shown that drought and scant water have already
fueled conflicts in global hot spots like Afghanistan.

Wow! Afghanistan was a peaceful paradise until the drought showed up. Who knew? I mean, it's not as if the place has been in a civil war since the mid-70's that was created and fueled by our old friends the Soviets. If only they could get more rain, then everything would be better.

It's blatantly stupid arguments like this one that cause me to oppose the Global Warming crowd. They have proved time and time again that they will say anything to advance their cause, even if it's blatantly false. They simply cannot be trusted.