Dear, Dear Senator Wyden

Dear, Dear Senator Wyden,

Thank you for your service to Oregon and to the United States, and thank you for your expeditious reply to my previous email concerning "climate change" and whether or not it is anthropogenic in nature. That Co2 levels have increased dramatically over the past century is moot, considering that even today CO2 levels are measured in thousandths of one percent of our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere; indeed, levels of CO2 must increase by more than 300 percent in order to achieve the status of outweighing xenon or krypton as part of our atmosphere.
Nonetheless, the average temperature is trending upward, save for the past decade, and we may in time approach an epoch when once again grapes will grow in Greenland, and the grassy tundras of Antarctica will once again turn verdant and lush.

Tell you what: figure out how to stop time, then we can tinker with the weather, since both are equally above the grasp of human thought. Mr. Gore's diatribe is laughably incorrect; climatic "computer models" exemplify the GIGO adage: "garbage In, Garbage Out," inasmuch as these "models" cannot accurately demonstrate historic weather patterns such as the Medieval "Little Ice Age," nor the "Interglacial" warming periods which we know to have occurred by forensic evidence as well as written eyewitness accounts.

Is "climate change" anthropogenic? And, if the opinions of those who believe that we have gone past the point of no return are correct, what sort of treaty or set of laws will do a nickel's worth of slowing to this vast climatic juggernaut, rather like trying to stop a speeding locomotive by putting a coin on the track?

But, what if this is simply another warming period identical to the ones in the past, when the Sahara blossomed and Alaska was subtropical rather than frozen tundra? We burn the oil which was once "biomass" in areas which now can barely support life: the Persian Gulf states, the arctic north, beneath the Gulf of Mexico, off the coastlines of Ireland and Brazil. The earth and everything on, above, and under it is subject to change, dramatic, cataclysmic, and global and no human engineering nor legislation nor treaty will alter the course of change.

Do you not remember King Canute, who dared resist the tides of the sea?
Perhaps you recall the tale of Babel, whose denizens attempted to "make a name for themselves" and became instead a towering laughingstock for all time?
Surely, the pride of the White Star Line tells you of human arrogance and of human frailty in the face of nature and under the hand of nature's God.

Hey, fix it, if you can. Knock yourself out; make a name for yourself. With my blessing.

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