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The Iceland volcano has created an interesting turn of events for climate change experts.  Have we just run into one of those non-anthropogenic issues that throws the global warming guys into a tailspin?  This whole event has brought fresh vision to the role of man in the larger issue of climate change.  While it is often inferred that man is the big CO2 source in the world, the facts do not support this.  Man is minor player in the CO2 overview.  Did you know that the largest by volume Green House Gas is water vapor (H2O)?  However,  it is only fair to say that CO2 and methane are more virulent gases.  Biomass (all the vegetation that grows and dies each year) releases a huge volume of CO2.  Planned burn of wooded areas and fields contribute millions of tons of CO2 to the air.  Portland cement making is on of the biggest CO2 emission source, but that one is probably too well guarded a secret for anyone to really speak about.

Perhaps mankind is not in control of the climate or global warming.  It seems obvious that we are contributors, but not wholly liable for what is going on in the earth.   The Eyjafjallajökull eruption is a remarkable, though catastrophic event.  The impact of a remote volcano in a remote part of the world is something that we cannot ignore while we are preoccupied with self-flagellation.   It seems mankind has been upstaged by nature, and we cannot take this lying down.  Mankind must be the culprit so that we can press the political agenda forward.  There is simple no allowance for stealing our guilt.

We are all cautious of these ready-made arguments that prod the public into panic mode.  Climate-Gate in the post Copenhagen era has spawn more critics about global warming claims, but just so you know, here is a graph from InformationIsBeautiful comparing the CO2 output of the volcanoes to the carbon output of the airlines that haven’t been able to fly.  So, without confirmation of facts or extended comment, the media is anxious to mitigate the role of the volcanoes and bring the problem back upon man, who must be held accountable for climate change.  So this chart is likely to get more than its fair amount of attention until someone counters it as misleading.

But, CO2 is not the only issue of a volcanic eruption.  Millions of tons of other green house cases are released as well as CO2, so the chart is skewed in that failure to track all the output of the volcanoes.  Then, there is the particulates that formed those immense, continent-covering clouds that stopped airplanes from flying throughout Europe.  Don’t they count too?

In fact, every climate expert and volcanic historian knows that large volcanic eruptions can cause a solar winter because the sun’s rays cannot get through the volcanic ash clouds.  Global cooling is a certainty when volcanoes spew their particulate-laden clouds 50,000 feet into the sky.  That is why I feel once again mislead by those who rush to spin every contrary piece of evidence into another climate change argument.  I begin to wonder if these people have no shame after the Climate-Gate of Copenhagen.  Are we so driven to convince the world that it must be done at all costs?

I believe in the Green House Effect.  We need this to keep our planet from being a nighttime freezer and daytime oven.  I also believe the CO2 is part of the balancing act that influences our world.  I further believe that we must decrease our dependency on foreign oil and fossil fuels in general.  So, I am not a naysayer on this subject.  I am just very tired of being treated as though I believe everything that is tossed at me by those wanted to shift my reality to their fiction.

As earthquake rumble in many parts of the earth, volcanoes erupt, and icecaps either recede or advance; I believe that we need to stop playing games with the facts and politics.  I think the public is getting weary with environmental lies promoted in the belief that we must be spurred to greater social guilt, environmental shame, and political zealotry for climate change policies.   I advocate social responsibility that comes from the truth of what we see in this world.

Those who are afraid of the plain truth are alarmist, manipulators, and modern-day prophets of doom.   This is an hour that requires intelligent and pragmatic solutions to a growing environmental problem.  It is also time for all of us to step up to the duties that we should readily assume before the mindless political types pass onerous regulations without practical solutions.

It has just come out that the Climate Summit is defending against even more phony evidence about global warming.  Even those who agree with the concerns for global warming are getting tired of all the artificial and misleading information.  We now hear that the prediction about the melting away of the Himalayan glacial by 2035 was unreliable information.  Of course, it makes for great drama and photo ops when this was the crisis backdrop for the attendees of the summit.  Now, they are trying to handle the latest bombshell of false evidence.  Environmentalism is in danger of persistent exaggeration and a credibility gap going forward.

This penchant for environmental hype hurts the environmental cause since it has been roundly asserted that the “scientific community” has already laid the foundations for this urgent global meetings.  Time and time again, the information is misleading, incorrect, and purposely contrived to support the claims of global warming.

Of course, we cannot forget the leaked emails out of England that told the story of suppressed information contrary to global warming.  Fewer were told that the climate change models had the reference data tied to models that were not properly protected from manipulation.  Few people understand that the climate change data was anything more than recordation of the actual temperatures.  If scientists tweak the software, the results were more to their liking.  More lies tossed like gum balls to the public.

Like any good Nixon-style cover up of the facts, the conspiracy was worse than facing the truth.  When the emails leaked out, the whole climate change community went into overdrive trying to minimize the truth that was leaking out of their highly protected community.

But, why bother to lie or contrive information to turn a matter of concern into a voracious crisis?  Is it that those who succeed in driving a crisis mentality get more of what they want?  The sad story of Haiti perhaps illustrates my point.  Haiti has been a desperately poor nation for a century.  The world has helped Haiti through humanitarian aid, but never to the extent that it did after the horrible earthquakes that struck this island country.  Crisis raises the priority of the cause and pushes people to take emergency action.  Urgency doesn’t mean that the best solutions are installed.  Haiti will still be a poor nation after the relief efforts unless we think our way through the process of international assistance.

The message to those who make the claims for environmentalism and global warming is “Stop lying to the public even though you think the reason for the lies is noble.”  The truth is what we all want, and there are enough crisis issues around to consume our attention anyway.  With unemployment at true numbers of 17%, we have a crisis.  The national debt is a nightmare that is mostly ignored by a spend-crazed congress.  The flight of jobs from America caused by taxation and regulations is being ignored while taxes on the population are going up.

Good people were disturbed at the private jet-flying elitist who attend the Climate Summit ignored their carbon footprint, made no secret of the opulent luxury of the attendees, and yet had the audacity to lecture the rest of us on our abuses of the resources of the world.  Global warming is going to suffer the ignominious fate of Martha Coakley because people are tired of the lies and elitism of those in charge of the cause.

The truth is coming out, and global warming is obvious.  It is also obvious that far too many wrap themselves in an environmental flag to advance their own private and political agendas.  They enlarge their wealth and power at the expense of the private citizen because they have hijacked the environmental cause at our expense.  The next failure of these big, fat, Green liars will be the Cap and Trade bill.  Why?  Because people are totally fed up with the Barney Franks of the world who still believe that people will buy their bald-face lies and the sold-out news media will not call them on their favorite sport of deception.

The public voted against the lies of Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, and Frank were exposed when an unknown man in a pickup truck truth told the truth.  Shocking the world, the people turned a solid blue state with a Kennedy legacy over to the truth-telling Scott Brown.  Regardless of party implications, the fact was that the truth stood against an army of lies and won.  We need less of the present political grandstanding and a lot more real people who still believe that the truth will set them free.  The environment is not a politician football, and politics is not a reliable friend of the environment.