In a world… where being neutered grants you carbon credits… one man has the courage to stand up to the… awha hell, this is just wrong.

Though, the answer to most environmental problems involves taking more of your money (as the expensive of Kyoto has clearly been worth it for 2 of the 15 EU countries that reduced their emissions), this is apparently the case when it comes to having children too.

A proposal by Barry Walters, an associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia (and backed by Garry Egger, adjunct professor of health sciences at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia) believes a tax on having children would be very helpful.  Dr. Walters believes that every family that chooses (freedom of choice) to have more then a specific number of children should be charged a carbon tax.  To give an incentive, those who buy condoms or become spayed or neutered (or to use the politically correct term: Sterilization Procedures) would receive carbon credits.

“Population control seems to have gone off the rails in the last 30 years,” Dr Egger says.

“It’s almost forbidden to talk about it these days. It’s almost like smoking – you have to go out in the alleys to talk about it.

“And it’s obvious that population is not going to be controlled by itself or indeed by politicians or economists because … the easy way to make an economy grow is just to have more people.

“And we’re ignoring the fact that the downside of that is the pollution and the carbon footprint that’s created by increasing the population.”

According to Dr. Egger, two babies per couple would be a reasonable “Tax-Free” number of children, because it is a “replacement value”.

Now, I am not a baby expert or a doctor from Australia, but I am a thinker… and form my understanding of the whole population thing is if every couple only has two children, the population will go down.  Some people don’t have children, some people die before they can have children, heck, even some children even die before they become adults.  If we look at the numbers, a birth rate of 2.1 to 2.2 is required to maintain (not increase) the population as it is.

How much do Dr. Egger and Dr. Walters want to take from you?  If you have a third child, the cost would be $5,000 at birth and $800 per year per child.  I am not an economist, but I am a thinker, but the way I understand it, as people become adults, they become productive, contributing members of society (well, everyone but hippies, and they smell) and contribute to the country by paying their own taxes.  The more people you have, the more people you can tax.  As Europe is discovering now (with their negative population growth), it becomes more difficult to pay for all these wiz-bang government programs, if you have less people to tax.

Now, try talking to an environMentalist, and ask them how many children a couple should have.  You will get the same response:

“Two.  There is no need to have more then what will keep the population where it is” (or something along this line)

The correct response be “I believe in a freedom of choice when it comes to having children, and a couple should have as many children as they want.”  Shouldn’t it? Perhaps those who feel they don’t pay enough in taxes should have the freedom to choose to pay more into the government.    Or perhaps the world would truly be better off if environMentalists didn’t reproduce.

We are set on a course of ‘planet saving’ madness
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nbook125.xml

John Coleman, Founder of the Weather Channel: “It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM.”

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the church try to discredit John here for “ties to big oil” or someother nonesence.  But I thought there was a consensus and the science was settled…  Apparently not.

The Church is not going to be a fan of John Coleman, the founder/boss of the Weather Channel.  He published in his blog that Global warming is “the greatest scam in history.”

The whole thing can be downloaded from Icecap.us here.

Now, I know it was big news when Al Gore got his Nobel Peace Prize and his emmy and all, but you don’t seam to see the story about John here anywhere in the big news yet.  I understand it only happened yesterday, but come on.  Then Again, what with NBC’s whole Green Week going on now, it would be a shame to point out how the only green the Church of Global Warming is intrested in is the kind with dead presidents on it.

Never mind higher temperatures (or colder temperatures), Now any event can be a cause of Global Warming.  Hurricane?  You Bet!  Tsunamis?  Of course.  Droughts and/or Flooding?  Yes both!  Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides?  Why not?

As Guardian.co.uk reciently pointed out this article by Bill McGuire, Even Earthquakes can be linked to Global Warming.

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

Thats right, because the closer you examine Climate Change, the more you realize that just because humans didn’t cause the mid-evil warm peroid (or any of the other moments in Earth’s history that it was as warm or warmer then it is now) doesn’t mean this time it isn’t our fault.  I mean, look at all the… Big Oil somethingotother….

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.

Amen Brotha, Preach on!

Looking back to other periods in our planet’s history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected. The solid earth also became restless, with an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis. At the rate climate change is accelerating, there is every prospect that we will see a similar response from the planet, heralding not just a warmer future but also a fiery one.

Several times in the past couple of million years the ice left its polar fastnesses and headed towards the equator, covering much of the world’s continents in ice sheets over a kilometre thick, and sucking water from the oceans in order to do so. As a consequence, at times when the ice was most dominant, global sea levels were as much as 130m lower than they are today; sufficient to expose land bridges between the UK and the continent and Alaska and Russia.

Now, we here at the Church of Global Warming feel it is important to point out here how even though McGuire points out how the climate was “swinging about wildly” or how ice left polar areas before, its still Man’s fault this time.

Each time the ice retreated, sea levels shot up again, sometimes at rates as high as several metres a century. In the mid 1990s, as part of a study funded by the European Union, we discovered that in the Mediterranean region there was a close correlation between how quickly sea levels went up and down during the last ice age and the level of explosive activity at volcanoes in Italy and Greece.

Ok, so the sea levels move around and volcanos and earthquakes happen.  Lets look at why this is important when it comes to preaching the word of Gore to the public.  For this all we need to do is simply look at one of the areas in the United States for geologic activity.  (You can look at any realy, but to keep from boring you to death, we’ll just pick one.  Feel free to Google others.)  New Madrid Fault System is a area in the middle of the North American tectonic plate that has a history of shooting off 6.0-8.0 quakes every so-many years.  Most areas that experiance earthquakes are no diffrent, in that the plate(s) under the ground tend to ‘pop’ on a regular basis.  According to Southwest Missouri State University:

A damaging earthquake in this area (6.0 or greater) occurs about every 80 years (the last one in 1895). There is a 50% chance of such a quake by the year 2000. The results would be serious damage to schools and masonry buildings from Memphis to St. Louis.

A major earthquake in this area (7.5 or greater) happens every 200-300 years (the last one in 1812). There is a 10% chance of such a disaster by the year 2000 and a 25% chance by 2040. A New Madrid Fault rupture this size would be felt throughout half the United States and damage expected in 20 states or more. Missouri alone could anticipate losses of at least $6 billion from such an event.

The Great New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12 was actually a series of over 2000 shocks in five months, five of which were 8.0 or more in magnitude. Eighteen of these rang church bells on the Eastern seaboard. The very land itself was destroyed in the Missouri Bootheel, making it unfit for farming for many years. It was the largest burst of seismic energy east of the Rocky Mountains in the history of the U.S. and was several times larger than the San Francisco quake of 1905.

When will another great earthquake happen the size of those in 1811-12? Several lines of research suggest that the catastrophic upheavals like those in 1811-1 2 visit the New Madrid region every 500-600 years. Hence, emergency planners, engineers, and seismologists do not expect a repeat of the intensity of the 1811-12 series for at least 100 years or more. However, though the chance is remote, experts assign a 1% probability of an 8.0 or greater seismic event by the year 2000 and a 3% probability by the year 2040. Earthquake probabilities for known active faults always increase with time, because stresses within the earth slowly and inexorably mount  year by year until the rocks reach there limits, and sudden rupture becomes inevitable.

Our greatest concerns are the 6.0-7.6 events, which do have significant probabilities in the near future. A 6.0 shock has a 90% chance by the year 2040. Damaging earthquakes of this magnitude are a virtual certainty within the lifetimes of our children.

Now, you see, in less links then it takes to link John Travolta to Kevin Bacon, you have Global Warming – Sea Levels – Earthquakes/Volcanos.  And because of this link, when a plate pops, all the media needs to do is point to the event as another sign of Global Warming.  I wonder now how they will explain off the sea level rise in the last 22k years that wasn’t our fault.

According to Richard Hollingham and the BBC, we are causing the Million year Old ice to melt in Greenland dispite the Vikings planting crops there 600 years ago.

This was pointed out to me via Carlo Stagnaro’s posting at Lewrockwell.com.  From this BBC article here: Icy Greenland turns green, it would appear that 600 years is longer the a Million.  No, there is no need for a calculator, Just take a look at the BBC Article written by Richard Hollingham.

First of all, The Church points out how dire things are:

Greenland’s ice is melting rapidly. In some places, glacial levels have been falling by 10 metresf a year and ultimately contributing to rising sea levels. Travelling to Greenland, Richard Hollingham sees the impact of climate change for himself.

Wow, that’s pretty bad.  We have melting ice and rising sea levels that are the impact of Climate Change all in one paragraph.  But it gets worse!

A few metres above the ice, the rock is totally bare. A scar running horizontally across the valleys. It is as if the ice has been drained away, like water in a bath, to leave a tide mark. Which is, in effect, what has happened. The ice has melted and the glaciers have retreated hundreds of metres over the past 150 years.

Okay, there is a scar on mother Earth where hundreds of meters of ice has drained away.  All because of Humans (climate change).  Wow, that’s pretty crappy.

This land was being exposed for the first time for millions of years. Even a century ago, where I stood would have been solid ice, and I was struck by just how much vegetation there was.

Wow.  So we are causing Greenland to loose all its ice that’s been there for millions of years because of climate change.  Even one thousand years ago it was solid ice.  We truly suck.  But wait, there is more! 

Two paragraphs later, there is a heading titled “Agricultural return.”  Well, I know you are too frustrated at Mankind for killing the earth by all the bad news at this point, and probably feel the urge to just go recycle some paper, lets read on just for fun.

The Earth’s climate has warmed before, albeit naturally.

Blaspheme!

A ruined church on the banks of a fjord marks the remains of a Viking farming civilisation.

A ruined Church and the remains of a Viking Farming civilization…  Farming?  Wait…  I thought “this land was being exposed for the firs time for “millions of years” and “even a century ago” the land was covered in ice.  this is odd… If the land was under ice for millions of years, how could they farm?  Perhaps Richard will help clear this up.

The sun casts shadows through the arched window to the site of the altar, last used in the 1400s before the area was abandoned when it became too cold to support habitation.  Today, the farmers are back.  Sheep once again graze the surrounding hillside and shiny new tractors work the fields near the southern coast.

Yep thats pretty clear… wait…  The land became too cold to support habitation and was abandoned.  This guy must be wrong.  Let me check Archaeology.org.

Greenland’s climate began to change as well; the summers grew shorter and progressively cooler, limiting the time cattle could be kept outdoors and increasing the need for winter fodder. During the worst years, when rains would have been heaviest, the hay crop would barely have been adequate to see the penned animals through the coldest days.

Oh Snap.  So, the Vikings really did grow stuff on Greenland… 600 years ago… when it was… warmer… and the cooling weather helped kill them off.  Perhaps BBC should remove that little bit about the Vikings to help the article be more consistent… or they could keep people who don’t know what they’re talking about from publishing articles.   The truth completely ruined the Hate-Humans buzz I had going.  Thanks a lot Truth!