Say what, senators?

It is both welcome and offensive that Senators Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski have announced their support for the Low Carbon Economy Act being considered by Congress to address reduction of U.S. human emissions.

It’s welcome because it shows the senators understand that the universe and environment we live in is not static, but changing, and that we must be responsible stewards of our planet. If you’re willing to look, it’s easy to observe the current long-term recession of glaciers and ice caps on Earth and Mars as well as other indications of planetary warming.

Mankind didn’t become Earth’s ruling species by being a willing victim of pollution and climate change. So, it’s extremely ethical of our senators to support taking responsibility for ill-managed human pollution. It’s sensible of them to support developing alternate energy sources so workable that even humanity’s most selfish willingly support their use.

In their announcement of support they also stated that the “Low Carbon Economy Act should halt the potentially devastating effects of global climate change.” This assertion is offensive because it constitutes scientific fraud. Unfortunately, fearmongering and feel-good propaganda, à la George W. Bush, from global warming fanatics tends to camouflage dishonesty. So, let me demonstrate the fraud using simple mathematics.

Let’s represent, with the newspaper page you are reading, the total greenhouse gas accumulation that’s asserted to be creating the greenhouse effect driving global warming. By ignoring pesky contradictions, let’s make this accumulation man-made as a favor to this emissions reduction proposal.

Let’s represent each new year’s accumulation of man-made greenhouse gases with a postage stamp. The new law proposes to ignore the newspaper page and just cut off part of each of these succeeding stamps. Our senators represent that this will halt and reverse the total accumulation of newspaper and stamps (i.e. halt the effects of global climate change).

Say what?

Obviously, America’s greatest danger is a famine of result-oriented ideas.

Stuart Thompson

Wasilla