Greenhouse Gas - you can't make this stuff up

Aloha once again. It's time for some truth to emerge regarding what's commonly referred to as greenhouse gases. Do they exist? Sure they do. Have they always existed? Yes, ever since an atmosphere formed around our planet.

Every day those of us who pay attention to the news are bombarded with stories about how excess carbon dioxide is going to trigger the "greenhouse effect" and raise our planet's temperatures to a dangerous level. Oceans will rise, polar bears will die and New Orleans will look back fondly at a time when the high water levels caused by hurricanes eventually receded.

On or about the same day the EPA declared carbon dioxide to be a pollutant the Green Bay Packers played a very intense football game on their home field in Wisconsin. It was a very cold night at Lambeau Field, as it usually is during the winter. The cold temperatures made the excessive breathing of the exhaused players very obvious. I thought to myself "We must ban sports. Look at all that CO2 coming out of those guys. My God someone must do something!" You talk about a "carbon footprint" those players were generating more greenhouse gas than Al Gore's private jet. We can't let these guys or their team's owners go unpunished for the environmental disaster they displayed on national television.

But wait. Is CO2 really the villan it is portrayed to be by the human caused climate change proponents? No. It is not.

The greenhouse effect is very real. You can experience it yourself during any cold weather period in the winter. If the sky is clear at night in the winter the temperature will go lower than if the sky is cloudy. The clouds provide a natural blanket keeping the relative warmth of the day from escaping into the night skies. When the clouds part, warmer air risies through the holes in the blanket allowing the temperature to drop. This is a very clear, understandable demonstration of a very real greenhouse effect.

So what are clouds made from? Water vapor. And, yes, you guessed it, water vapor is the number one greenhouse gas in our atmosphere. CO2 pales by comparison to the effect of water vapor creating a greenhouse umbrella over the land. The amount of CO2 generated by human activity such as driving cars, flying in aircraft (private or commercial) is a tiny fraction of the amount of water vapor in our atmosphere. Tiny. Miniscule. Unmeasureable. Insignificant.

What makes this even funnier is the fact that the believers in the myth of human-caused climate change firmly believe that alternative methods of energy creating will solve the problem. Oh really? Let's look at that.

In a recent speech the current president parted ways with the liberal left and promoted the idea of nuclear power plants. He now believes, or says he does, this is better than those hideous CO2 creating fossil fuel burners found across the country. Ever seen a nuke plant in operation? With the exception of one that I can think of that uses sea water to keep things cool they all have cooling towers that emit enormous clouds of steam. Great! No CO2. But what is that steam made from? Why it's water vapor. The number one greenhouse gas on the planet.

Another great idea from the climate change crowd is hydrogen fuel cells. These very creative devices will produce power from hydrogen. Great idea since hydrogen is very plentiful and when you burn it you get - yeah, you guessed it, water vapor. Uh Oh. Don't get me wrong I think burning hydrogen is far better than stinking up the place with fossil fuels but from a greenhouse gas standpoint - a bummer. And don't forget about the energy that must be used to separate water into its component parts, hydrogen and oxygen. How does one accomplish that feat with out using energy created by some other means? Like burning coal, natural gas or with nuclear technology?

The entire effort on the part of the "greenies" and the political left to reduce carbon emmissions is nothing but a ploy to take over the means of production and to control populations with an iron thumb. It's a Maoist, Stalinist, Marxist, Leninist attempt to destroy capitalism and liberty.

This country is all about liberty and private propery rights. The radical left, including the current occupant of the oval office, want to deprive us of our God-given liberty and make us their servants. And they think demonizing carbon dioxide is a means to that end.

Oh, and one more thing to remember: No CO2, no green.