subscribesubscriber servicescontact usabout ussite map
Mon, Nov 09 2009 

Published June 18, 2009 10:26 pm - Disclaimer: The writer does not favor wasting limited resources or using inefficient machinery for unessential transportation, power production and labor-saving equipment. He loves plants (flora), including big trees, which benefit from rain, carbon dioxide and warmth.

Guest column, John Cragin: Public being duped about CO2



By John Cragin

Globe guest columnist

Disclaimer: The writer does not favor wasting limited resources or using inefficient machinery for unessential transportation, power production and labor-saving equipment. He loves plants (flora), including big trees, which benefit from rain, carbon dioxide and warmth. He favors moral, merciful, mindful well-mothered people and other fauna. He is opinionated, but does not harbor personal malice.

Some news media and TV talking-head “experts,” some “academic” publications and several non-governmental organizations with socialistic leanings have out-talked the scientific community. They’ve duped the public into the false belief that the United States is causing global warming because it emits carbon dioxide (CO2). They support their position by a correlation between elevated levels of temperature and the concentration of greenhouse gases, specifically CO2, ignoring other causes of a greenhouse effect. Is the choice of carbon dioxide as the culprit valid? Cause and effect? Not for sure.

It is a fact that a million years of data support that the temperatures rise about 50 percent of the time and go down about 50 percent of the time. It is sophomoric to say that we can stop the swings by reducing our CO2 emissions. By the way, the frequency of those swings is about 250,000 years.

There is an effort to frighten people that the Earth will become unbearably hot, melting ice caps and flooding low-lying areas because we emit CO2. It may happen anyway. I guess Buffalo Bill knew this instinctively. He killed vast numbers of bison, not to sell the skins nor to feed railway builders but to keep the vast herds of panting (CO2-emitting) and flatulent (methane emitting) animals from causing the inundation of the Mississippi River valley. Fact: Temperatures are rising. Fact: The level of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen. Does higher temperature cause higher concentration of CO2? Fact: Just wait. Temperatures will fall and so will the CO2 level. Other greenhouse agents besides buffaloes include volcanic gases and dusts, marsh gases and atmospheric water.

Fact: A reason temperatures are rising is that the sun is putting out energy at an elevated rate; the sun is not perfect but it stays pretty well within reasonable limits.

Fact: Mother Nature spins the Earth that we may have nights and days so that one side of the Earth is not always scorching while the opposite side is frigid.

Fact: There is some mechanism in the sun that serves a similar function over greater time spans; it makes the sun’s radiant heat variable. The why is beyond our knowledge; but there is nothing we can do about it, in any case.

What possible reason do these propagandists have for their great efforts to scare people? It is possible that they know there is a limited amount of land and, ultimately, land must be held in common and governed by liberal socialists (let’s call them elite — they’d like that), all in the interests of the teeming masses. There’s got to be more to it than that. Elite are not going to wait that long; they are going to eliminate private property as soon as possible; they are political animals.

Already, eastern Oregon farmers cannot farm their land because the elite have taken irrigation water away from them. Maybe that wing of misguided elite sees starvation as the ultimate solution to the population problem.

Here’s a take on motive and process of elite government efforts to cut carbon-dioxide production. They will be empowered to tax smokestack industries for the amount of carbon dioxide they emit, e.g. electric power companies. This tax will seriously increase the costs of generating electricity.

To cover their costs, utilities must charge every user of electricity — large or small, rich or poor — for those costs. It’s “charge” or get out of business. Those increases in the cost of their service, due to government action, will be blamed on the utilities. But those extra charges go directly to the government which has effectively included practically all citizens in a really big tax increase and passed the buck to the utility company — the unpaid tax collector.

John Cragin lives in Joplin.



print this story    email this story    comment on this story   

Click to discuss this story with other readers on our forums.


Add a comment on this story







autoconx
Premier Guide
Find a business

Walking Fingers
Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more...
Premier Guide
: Special Offer For New Subscribers : 32 buy 1 get 1 free offers

Click Here!



Featured Jobs

PHONE SALES
Now hiring part time for data entry and phone sales. 20 hour/week. Apply in person at 4710 E 32nd Street. Joplin....>MORE

JOPLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY
JOPLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY - Children’s Assistant. 20 hours per week. Must enjoy working with children, posses excellent cust...>MORE

OFFICE PERSON NEEDED

Some experience. Apply in person: Coss Painting, 712 Willard, Joplin.
...>MORE

COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER
COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER, full time, providing support and case management for adults with chronic mental illness. BS/BA...>MORE

SERVICE COORDINATOR SUPERVISOR
SERVICE COORDINATOR SUPERVISOR full time, responsible for development and supervision of ongoing activities required to...>MORE

SUNSHINE, INC

is currently accepting applications for Full time and part time evening evening shift and an awake overnight suppo
...>MORE

SEEKING MICROSOFT SYSTEMS ANALYST
Seeking Microsoft Systems Analyst. Candidate will assist with presales consulting, primary installation and support of W...>MORE

TELLER
Local credit union has opening for part time teller 25-35 hours per week, experience preferred. Apply in person Joplin M...>MORE

SALES
NYSE and Co., opening a new division. Will train. Looking for full-time or part-time. Call Mike, (417)448-4732....>MORE

ARE YOU AN ACTIVE RETIREE?
Do you enjoy caring for others? Caring people needed to help the elderly in their homes. No experience necessary, traini...>MORE

See all ads

Featured Transportation

1999 DODGE NEON
5 speed, air, 92,000 miles. 417-529-4420 or 417-781-8907....>MORE

1990 FREIGHLINER CAB OVER
set back axle, 400 Cummins, 9 speed over drive, flat top, big sleeper, 10 near new tires, new transmission, new brakes a...>MORE

1993 ISUZU TROOPER
$2000 Good Interior Needs tune up. 417-396-8811....>MORE

2000 Freightliner
$20,000 Century Classic, 745,943 miles; 1998 Freightliner $15,000, 400,888 miles; 1996 Volvo $25,000, 1,167,593 miles 1 ...>MORE

1998 OLDSMOBILE REGENCY
127,000 miles, nice and clean, $3420. 529-2207....>MORE

1989 CADILLAC FLEETWOOD
Low miles, must sell. (417)396-3950....>MORE

1984 SUZUKI SAMURAI
4x4, 4 cylinder, 5 speed, 74,500 miles, 30+ mpg, $3000. (620)856-5807 or 620-762-2155....>MORE

PONTIAC, 1997 SUNFIRE,
2 door, automatic, low miles, very nice, $2650. 434-7382....>MORE

1999 FORD F350
crew cab, 7.3 diesel, 4x4, white, Astro top, best offer. 434-3995...>MORE

1993 CHEVROLET SHORT CONVERSION
V6, loaded, cold air, good mpg, great shape, 115,000 miles, $1950. (417)385-7039...>MORE

See all ads

Featured Homes

DOWNTOWN JOPLIN

Commercial buildings.
For sale or lease.
For details phone
Bill Martin,
Quality Real Estat
...>MORE

BY OWNER REDUCED PRICE!
3 br, 2 ba, 1840 sq. ft., remodeled, all new interior, new roof, $79,900. 436 N. Wall, Joplin. 240-432-8336....>MORE

HISTORICAL ROCK FILLING STATION

on Route 66 with lots of updates This solid old building has 1200 sq. ft. on 100x100 lot, on Main Street of Carter
...>MORE

2 BR CENTRAL HEAT/AIR,
gar, $475/$300 appliances 4117 S Pennsylvania 417-389-6737...>MORE

OPEN SATURDAY 9 A.M.-4 P.M.
Sunday 1-4 p.m. 3 br on 2 lots, central heat/air, vinyl siding/windows. See to appreciate. $29,900. 823 S. Sergeant. (91...>MORE

FURNISHED 3 BR
2 ba, 1750 sq. ft. vaulted ceilings, located in S. Joplin, near Shoal Creek, $97,500. Usa Real Estate 417-781-1233....>MORE

2 BR, 2 BA
trash/sewer provided. Quiet park. No Pets. $375/250. 417-673-7437....>MORE

OPEN HOUSE 2-4 P.M.
3 br, 2 ba, 2-car gar., 1660 sq. ft. with lots of amenities, 2228 W. 29th. $129,900. 417-825-0557....>MORE

DEERFIELD ESTATES
in Carl Junction, prime building sites, reduced $10,000 each. 417-825-0052...>MORE

BRIARBROOK
3 BR, 2.5 ba, 1 year lease $725/$700, no pets. 417-310-0056....>MORE

See all ads

Other Cool Stuff

2008 POLARIS TRAILBLAZER 330
2 wheel drive, like new, $2300. (918)961-8995....>MORE

2 CREMATION NICHES
2 CREMATION NICHES Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery, moving must sell quick. Call Carolyn, (417)624-3017....>MORE

BOW FLEX EXTREME HOME GYM

(417)438-9041
...>MORE

14 WEEK-10 WEEK OLD MORKIE
males, $200. Papillion females, $200. 417-548-2433....>MORE

WANENMACHER’S WORLD’S LARGEST
GUN SHOW -November 14 and 15. Tulsa Fairgrounds, Saturday, 8-6 p.m., Sunday 8-4 p.m. www.tulsaarmsshow.com....>MORE

TWO LIVING ESTATE SALES, ONE SITE

Saturday, November 7, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
28245 Fir Road, Carl Junction, MO.
Follow signs.
Downsizing
...>MORE

COUCH
full size, with pillows, light pastel colors, lavender and blue, no cats, no dogs, no kids, $150 or offer. 624-2197....>MORE

KENNELL REDUCTION
Chihuahua’s and French Bulldog’s, AKC, pups to young adults, very nice, Chihuahua’s $100/up, Frenchis, $900/up. (417)394...>MORE

COFFEE, END AND ENTRY TABLE
coffee, end and entry tables, Nordic Track Walk Fit, sewing machine desk, (417)206-4958....>MORE

1950S CAVALIER COKE MACHINE
in working order, $350. (417)782-2751....>MORE

See all ads


 

Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.CNHI Classified Advertising NetworkCNHI News Service
Associated Press content © 2009. All rights reserved. AP content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Our site is powered by Zope and our Internet Yellow Pages site is powered by PremierGuide.
Some parts of our site may require you to download the Flash Player Plugin.
View our Privacy Policy
Advertiser index

 

 

The Joplin Globe Electronic Edition