"Your problem is not global warming. Your problem is that you're nuts."

Joel Achenbach zeroes in on the Global Warming-ologists:

Consider the June issue of Scientific American, where you'll find a photograph of a parched lake, the mud baked into the kind of desiccated tiles that scream "drought." The caption says: "Climate shift to unprecedentedly dry weather, along with diversion of water for irrigation, has converted this former reservoir in China's Minqin County into desert."

Um . . . "this former reservoir?" Look closely, and you can see concrete walls in the background. This is not a natural place: It's a manufactured landscape. Here's a wild guess: This part of China is an environmental disaster that has very little to do with climate change and very much to do with high population and intensifying agriculture.

Last week, we saw reports of more wildfires in California. Sure as night follows day, people will lay some of the blame on climate change. But there's also the minor matter of people building homes in wildfire-susceptible forests, overgrown with vegetation due to decades of fire suppression. That's like pitching a tent on the railroad tracks.

The message that needs to be communicated to these people is: "Your problem is not global warming. Your problem is that you're nuts."

To which Don Surber responds:

... the problem with Watermelon Socialists (green on the outside, red inside) is that they detract attention from the green part, which really is important.

Amen.

Nothing wrong with having a green outlook, conservation, and doing what you can to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.  Let's simply not lose our marbles in the attempt.

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[Locutisprime]

The places where the planet is losing aren't in America. They are in the equatorial rain forests. And in China, where they are burning the candle at both ends.

China has already diverted two rivers for the Olympics and done numerous other cosmetic things to try and make Bejing habitable for the 21 odd days of the Olympics. But after it is gone, it will be back to business as usual.

Which means they will be spewing out 100 times more airborne pollutants into the air and the water that leads into the Pacific. and none of the green weenies on this side of the planet seem to be too concerned about that.

No more than they are about the same and similar practices going on all over Asia, Africa, South America and India. And the reason is, there aren't any significant capitalism based countries for them to wreck. not like the apple of their eye the USA.

And when it all finally boils down to the lowest common denominator? The world will go to war. this time with nuclear weapons. And once that happens? I'd say that parched lake beds, both real and imagined will be common place. Only difference? There won't be a lot of people to photograph and report on them and even less to give a big whup.