Many of you know by now that California is “leading the way” to cap its production of “greenhouse gases”, primarily carbon dioxide to 1990 levels by 2020. Yes, that’s right, by 2020, the Golden State will be taking a giant leap thirty years into the past. Here is the problem, it only seems that carbon dioxide contributes to “global warming”, which, by the way, has been happening more or less unabated since the end of the last Ice Age. OK, sure, there was the “Little Ice Age” which lasted from about 1300 to about 1800, but, by and large, the world has been warming up for the last 10,000 years or so. Many climatologists and atmospheric scientists are unsure if the Earth is going to enter a warming or cooling phase, after all, twenty years ago we were all concerned about “nuclear winter” or that smog would block the sun’s radiation from reaching the surface of the planet triggering another ice age. Furthermore, no one is sure of the role which man made CO2 plays in the warming of the planet, if the planet is actually warming at all.
All of these efforts to cap CO2 emissions target industrial and automotive production of CO2 without addressing the core problem. The reason we are producing more CO2 is that the human population is greater than at any time in the planet’s history. There are simply too many people exhaling, producing CO2 with each breath. Something must be done! If we reduce the Earth’s population, say by a billion souls or so, the CO2 problem will likely go away. Yet that simple solution is never discussed by politicians, who simply pass laws like California’s “Global Warming Solutions Act Of 2006″ in order to say that they have done something meaningful and pander for your votes.
If we really want to reduce CO2 emissions I say we need to thin out the human herd. A nuclear war or good old fashioned genocide will do the trick. Let’s start with the politicians. That reduction in hot air will surely make a difference.
