FIDDLING AROUND WHILE THE PLANET BURNS

While reading the Drudge Report, I came across this entry taken from the AP wire service:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed.

One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.

Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort. "It's got to be looked at," he said. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table."

Holdren outlined several "tipping points" involving global warming that could be fast approaching. Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of "really intolerable consequences," he said.

Twice in a half-hour interview, Holdren compared global warming to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog."

As I read the article, I wondered to myself: who do these people think they are?

I understand how people might go for irradiated food, to make them "safer" for human consumption, or the genetic alteration of corn and other plants in an attempt to increase their yield.

In this case, however, they seem to be planning to do the ultimate tinkering with the atmosphere of the planet, not serendipitously, as with so-called "greenhouse gas emissions," or chlorofluorocarbons, but in a deliberate attempt to permanently alter the very air we breathe!

I realize that there are growing pockets of places where the air is pretty rich in unhealthy gasses and particulates, but this business of making a concerted effort to inject into our protective canopy of oxygen, nitrogen and other elements necessary for the proper use of our atmosphere, chemical compounds that are supposed to "clean it up," without having any method of ensuring that they either will achieve the desired effect or that their long-term effect will be beneficial is pretty scary stuff.

Indeed, it is the kind of stuff that could only come from "scientific" leadership that is as arrogant as President BO, himself.

We have tried unsuccessfully to alter our environment for years.

We have seeded hurricanes and storms to try to get them to dissipate their energy and thus become less of a threat.

We have set off explosives in an attempt to alter the stresses of tectonic plates, thus reducing the consequences of earthquakes.

All to no avail.

In my humble, but correct, opinion, we have elected a set of clowns who are determined to usher in "1984," "Animal Farm," and a myriad of other pseudo/sci-fi-political mumbo-jumbos in a globo-narcissistic race to control the universe.

They remind me of The Brain, from Animaniacs' "Pinkey and the Brain."

The sooner we lose these goons, the better.

NOTE: For those literalists among you, parts of the preceeding post were done with my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek. I will leave it up to you to decide which parts.