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[colion]

March 12, 2007
A Plan to stop Global Warming that is Out of this World
By Miguel A. Guanipa
It is an inevitable fact of life that the integrity of a particular social movement will sooner or later be compromised - or its absurdity exposed - by the unforeseen display of poor judgment on the part of its staunchest defenders. In a recent interview with Canada's former defense minister Paul Hellyer, the capricious alignment of the universal forces of chance afforded unequivocal confirmation of this thesis.
Mr. Hellyer informed the Ottawa Citizen that highly classified information on extraterrestrials may hold the key to solving the earth's Global Warming crisis and could help us save the planet before it is too late. He went on to demand that World governments declassify all of these Alien Technology secrets so we can get on with addressing this pressing issue as soon as possible.
Mr. Hellyer's rather unorthodox scheme is based on the premise that, since Alien visitors may have had to travel vast distances in search of intelligent life in our universe, they must possess extraordinary propulsion systems and incredibly efficient fuel technologies to be able to achieve such a feat. These technologies would go a long way towards stemming the tide of human extinction posed by Global Warming, if only the world governments (especially the U.S.) would share them with the scientific community.
Suffice it to say Global Climate groups are probably less than thrilled to hear that Mr. Hellyer has now joined their ranks in trying to save the world. I find this somewhat surprising; why would you not want the man who almost single-handedly consolidated the entire Canadian military forces on your team? The fact that he officially inaugurated the first and only known Unidentified Flying Object landing pad should hardly be reason to give a compatriot the cold shoulder.
Mr. Hellyer, who is 83 years old, may be given a grace period to retract his outlandish remarks and chalk them up to a momentary bout of senility. Unfortunately in his case such pronouncements have become the rule rather than the exception.
In a Toronto conference on November 2005 Mr. Hellyer accused the U.S. military of "preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens" and the Bush administration of trying to "get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning". A year earlier he closed a lecture with an admonition to begin an
"era of openness, public hearings, publicly funded research, and education about extraterrestrial reality".
Not surprisingly, shortly after the release of his most recent comments, the internet was abuzz with many UFO enthusiasts coming to Mr. Hellyer's defense, and declaring that his idea may not be so farfetched after all. Others derided the whole matter as an attempt to devise a hypothetical solution for what is already a fictitious problem.
I suppose that if you are already sold on the preposterous arguments Global Warming alarmists espouse, the next logical step would be to propose an even wackier solution to the alleged crisis. It is not hard to envision how the dual concepts of Climate Change and Space Aliens can find great compatibility in a mind that is vacuous enough to sit through an entire screening of Al Gore's Academy Award winning Power Point presentation (also known as An Inconvenient Truth). As Edward Tufte tells us, "Power corrupts; Power Point corrupts absolutely"
My own personal theory - for which I confess a lack of sufficient political or academic credentials to spur my fellow earthlings onto any kind of remedial action - is that Al Gore is at the center of this Alien ultramodern technology conspiracy.
I believe his ultimate goal is to slowly condition the world to believe that Global Warming is a fact, and to convince them that we can become better stewards of our planet as soon as we embrace the advanced technologies his alien consorts have kept under wraps until a more propitious time, at which juncture he will make them available for a nominal fee, which would go toward funding a sequel to his aforementioned film. Of course one could argue that my assessment is purely speculative and loosely based on reality; but I could say the same thing about Mr. Hellyer's.
And as far as the latter is concerned, one of the few remaining ills that have yet to be diagnosed as being related to Global Warming is "intermittent bouts of madness in retired politicians and generals". I suspect once climate change activists get wind of Mr. Hellyer's peculiar testimony I am sure they will promptly index it accordingly. Page Printed from: http://www.americant...al_warming.html at March 12, 2007 - 11:46:33 PM EDT

[Rogerdodger]

When I was a kid, life was simpler. 115 degree summers were cooler, winters were fun and tap water was so good, you could not drink it fast enough. I think global warming is caused by 2 things which are different from when I was a kid: 1. People did not work on Sunday, but went to church and ate fried chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy after church and then took a nap (which provided us kids time to experiment). 2. We did not have daylight savings time which adds 1 hour of sunlight each day. It all seems so simple.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 12 March 2007 - 11:07 PM.

[stocks]

http://www.amazon.co...-...3053&sr=1-1

In one chapter the author deals extensively with DDT. You may not have heard the recent news, but after 30 years of suspension, the use of this miracle insecticide is about to be widely restored in Africa. This could not happen, of course, if anything demonizing it over the last 30 years had actually been true, but it has taken 30 years to demolish the various scary mythologies that have long been believed. It does not kill birds. It does not cause eggshell thinning. And it is not a human carcinogen. In the 30 years that its use has been suspended in most of the world, there have been about 60 million needless human deaths from malaria, and about 1 billion sufferers. The economies of many Third World societies have been severely damaged by the ravages of this ongoing disease and many others spread by insects, all of which would have been controlled by DDT. The many alternatives to DDT, forced upon society by this ban, were significantly more dangerous and significantly less effective, as we have all too clearly seen.
Later chapters cover Asbestos, Public health, Forest management, Hurricanes, and the role of some extreme environmentalists in Eco-terrorism.
The chapter on asbestos points out how many more lives have been lost by a hysterical perception of the dangers of asbestos than by using it where it can do the most good and with the least harm to humans. The most obvious example is possibly the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Part way into the construction of the two towers, asbestos was banned from use in these buildings. Warnings were issued even then by engineers about the substandard quality of fire protection. After the collapse, specialists in construction noted that had asbestos been used throughout the two buildings as had been originally planned and specified, it is very likely that the steel would not have softened to such a degree that the buildings would have collapsed. The New York authorities' ban of asbestos in these buildings - following environmentalist dogma - may have actually caused most of the 3000 deaths which resulted from the collapse, along with the loss of hundreds of firefighters. And the needless loss of billions of dollars.

We all are aware of hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans. Contrary to the usual impressions, this was only a category three hurricane, but even that was sufficient to produce major damage on a city that was inadequately protected by levees. It had nothing to do with global warming. Thirty years earlier the Army Corps of Engineers had proposed several measures of flood protection to stop flood surges from Lake Pontchartrain from flooding the city, as they knew would happen eventually. Their plans were blocked by environmental obstruction in the courts, with the result that almost 1600 people died, and the city of New Orleans was severely damaged by a relatively weak hurricane. It may never recover, and is costing billions of dollars in attempted remediation

[maineman]

Don't tell the guys I've cared for who died from asbestosis....Really nasty lung disease.... mm

[Rogerdodger]

Don't tell the guys I've cared for who died from asbestosis....Really nasty lung disease....

I bet most of 'em smoked.
As you know, lung hairs (cillia) are paralysed by nicotine.

[maineman]

Don't tell the guys I've cared for who died from asbestosis....Really nasty lung disease....

I bet most of 'em smoked.
As you know, lung hairs (cillia) are paralysed by nicotine.

With all the lung diseases know as "pneumoconioses" basically, disease due to small particles in the lungs, the most severe cases have mostly been associated with smoking. So the severe asbestos lung-cancer cases were mostly smokers, likewise the coal miners (black lung), quarry workers, (silicosis), sugar cane cutters, redwood forest cutters, and many,many more.



The difference is that some of these small particles just get past the body's natural defenses (like cilia) and simply clog up the airways. And the patients just can't breathe. Some stimulate more severe disease, like "asbestosis", but again, its mostly the smokers who get/got mesothelioma, or asbestos-related lung cancer.



But that doesn't exonerate asbestos. Its toxic and we are smart enough to figure out safer alternatives.



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