The Only Answer to Global Warming

For years and years, environmentalist chicken-littles have shrieked apocalyptic warnings of climactic disaster from the dire spectre of global warming. Every single weather phenomenon, whether higher temperatures, lower temperatures, droughts, deluges, severe winters, burning summers, to Easy Like a Sunday Morning, has been attributable to this supposedly burgeoning, impending, almost-on-top-of-us meteorological disaster that is, of course, entirely attributable to the actions and activities and just plain living of mankind. Heck, a year ago they even made a movie about it that still didn't get John Kerry elected president.

Well, though I never would have believed it possible, the chicken littles have now outdone themselves:

Our planet's air has cleared up in the past decade or two, allowing more sunshine to reach the ground, say two studies in Science this week...

That sounds like very good news. But the researchers say that more solar energy arriving on the ground will also make the surface warmer, and this may add to the problems of global warming. [my emphasis]

So, let me get this straight. If we pollute more, we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which traps more solar radiation at the planet's surface and increases global warming. If we pollute less, we let more sunlight reach the planet's surface, heat it up, and that will increase global warming.

Well, I guess that leaves us two alternatives. We can all fry, or we can make the ultimate sacrifice:

Actually, there is a third alternative: stop listening to these hysterical fools who have never been right about anything, and consign them to the Official P.T. Barnum Gallery of Snakeoil Salesmen alongside the peddlers of mermaids, baldness cures, impotence elixers, Darwinian evolution, and perpetual motion machines.

Or would that be too "radical"?