Global warming and the lighter side of certain death

Opinion: RON HART: Global warming and the lighter side of certain death | death, warming, global : TheDestinLog.com

Here is a tip for anyone who has to deal with global warming zealots who try to convert you to their religion.

When they say that the Earth has warmed a half degree in the last 50 years or so, simply ask “Then what is the optimal temperature that you think the earth should be?”

For dramatic effect, I like to get out a pen and act like I am going to write down their number. Do not leave until they give you a number. Perhaps they get all Goldilocks and say that 59 degrees Fahrenheit is too hot, yet 58.7 is “just right.” This silly discussion will point out the absurdity of the global warming alarmists, and it mocks the myth that defines them.

My skepticism comes from two reasons.

First, I lived in Memphis for a long time where the Great Ice Age formed the Mississippi River, when glaciers melted and moved toward the Gulf of Mexico. This is the reason the Delta is so flat and such fertile farm land. The glaciers’ melting lasted from 75,000 to 12,000 years ago — well before Al Gore invented the Internet.

Oddly enough (and I can double check this), it was also well before SUVs roamed the land.

Second, these are the same environmental wackos of my youth who protested nuclear power as dangerous, thus keeping us from building any new plants for 30 years. By sheer incompetence and fear of challenging “science” as espoused by leftists, we ended up with all the coal-fueled plants we have now.