This follows up our recent commentary on water issues, especially in the American Southwest.
Environists have a mythology as rich (and wrong) as any other supposed (that is, fake) religion, when it comes to water. These myths are now embedded into school textbooks and media playbooks as much as National Socialism was ever found in schoolbooks of the Third Reich.
Here are some of the myths and examples of them:
Water is consumed and destroyed in use. Especially when it is used to cool electrical power stations, fuel-burning engines, control dust at mines, make concrete, or cool data centers. This is nonsense: water changes form (from liquid to vapor) when it is heated and evaporates. But very little water remains in any project: it is in the air, making air humid and ultimately falling to the earth as rain or snow. Some uses (like washing your hands to “avoid covid-19 or flushing your toilet) does contaminate water, but treatment is relatively easy, relatively inexpensive, and is constantly recycled naturally. The old joke about “flush twice, New Orleans (or where ever downstream) needs the water” is not really a joke. The problem comes when the natural systems (and their manmade enhancements) are overwhelmed by high concentrations of various materials and chemicals. From mud and sand to fertilizers and pesticides and whatever else. And methods of treating (“decontaminating”) water are better and better all the time.
God created this planet with a water cycle:
This planet, sustained by God, is amazing: even really high levels of pollution are naturally managed by this cycle without human intervention.
(An example, though it primarily involves salt water, is oil pollution in the oceans. If we are to believe the nonsense spouted by environists and politicians since the 1970s, just a few thousand barrels of oil (crude or products) permanently destroys the environment in whatever location it was spilled. We are told that the results are impossible to correct without massive human efforts to restore the “natural environment.” But WW2, in which millions of tons of fuel oil and lots of other things were dumped into the oceans by sinking of ships and crashing of aircraft (more than 7,000 ships just in the North Atlantic!), did not destroy the environment. Neither, we note, did the famous oil spills (like the Exxon Valdez or the 2010 Deepwater Horizon) totally wipe out life over large areas of the coasts and oceans. Was there damage? Absolutely, but much has already healed without human effort. )
The same thing applies to air pollution. The claims about CO2 and other “global warming gases” are generally highly exaggerated and often totally untrue. They are based on massive and unprovable assumptions about past ages and how the atmosphere works. There are atmospheric cycles that are tied to water cycles: man can influence and modify those cycles, but they are amazingly stable. And keep us, animals, and plants breathing!
For example, right now the Central Rockies and Northern Great Plains are getting hit with a late season storm, expected to dump up to a dozen inches of snow on the mountains and hills, and four to eight inches on many parts of the Plains. We hope and pray that it is a very wet snow: it has been a dry winter and we need to water. Not because man destroyed it, and not because air pollution kept the snow or rain from falling, but because of natural processes. The Great Plains, the Rockies, and the Great Basin (most of the Southwest, in fact) often suffer from extended periods of drought. Such a drought is thought to have brought about the collapse of the Anasazi civilization in the AD 1200s.
But none of this lets politicians demand and get more money and more power. And neither does it let the media get advertising money from all the commercial enterprises that want to sell you something, or get your money taken by the government so that the government can give them money.
Which is why lovers of liberty need to dig deeply into the claims and find the real science, not the faked-up, politically-correct “science” that supports the fearmongering of government, politicians, media, and all the “Big” business goods and services peddlers!
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.
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This follows up our recent commentary on water issues, especially in the American Southwest.
Environists have a mythology as rich (and wrong) as any other supposed (that is, fake) religion, when it comes to water. These myths are now embedded into school textbooks and media playbooks as much as National Socialism was ever found in schoolbooks of the Third Reich.
Here are some of the myths and examples of them:
Water is consumed and destroyed in use. Especially when it is used to cool electrical power stations, fuel-burning engines, control dust at mines, make concrete, or cool data centers. This is nonsense: water changes form (from liquid to vapor) when it is heated and evaporates. But very little water remains in any project: it is in the air, making air humid and ultimately falling to the earth as rain or snow. Some uses (like washing your hands to “avoid covid-19 or flushing your toilet) does contaminate water, but treatment is relatively easy, relatively inexpensive, and is constantly recycled naturally. The old joke about “flush twice, New Orleans (or where ever downstream) needs the water” is not really a joke. The problem comes when the natural systems (and their manmade enhancements) are overwhelmed by high concentrations of various materials and chemicals. From mud and sand to fertilizers and pesticides and whatever else. And methods of treating (“decontaminating”) water are better and better all the time.
God created this planet with a water cycle:
This planet, sustained by God, is amazing: even really high levels of pollution are naturally managed by this cycle without human intervention.
(An example, though it primarily involves salt water, is oil pollution in the oceans. If we are to believe the nonsense spouted by environists and politicians since the 1970s, just a few thousand barrels of oil (crude or products) permanently destroys the environment in whatever location it was spilled. We are told that the results are impossible to correct without massive human efforts to restore the “natural environment.” But WW2, in which millions of tons of fuel oil and lots of other things were dumped into the oceans by sinking of ships and crashing of aircraft (more than 7,000 ships just in the North Atlantic!), did not destroy the environment. Neither, we note, did the famous oil spills (like the Exxon Valdez or the 2010 Deepwater Horizon) totally wipe out life over large areas of the coasts and oceans. Was there damage? Absolutely, but much has already healed without human effort. )
The same thing applies to air pollution. The claims about CO2 and other “global warming gases” are generally highly exaggerated and often totally untrue. They are based on massive and unprovable assumptions about past ages and how the atmosphere works. There are atmospheric cycles that are tied to water cycles: man can influence and modify those cycles, but they are amazingly stable. And keep us, animals, and plants breathing!
For example, right now the Central Rockies and Northern Great Plains are getting hit with a late season storm, expected to dump up to a dozen inches of snow on the mountains and hills, and four to eight inches on many parts of the Plains. We hope and pray that it is a very wet snow: it has been a dry winter and we need to water. Not because man destroyed it, and not because air pollution kept the snow or rain from falling, but because of natural processes. The Great Plains, the Rockies, and the Great Basin (most of the Southwest, in fact) often suffer from extended periods of drought. Such a drought is thought to have brought about the collapse of the Anasazi civilization in the AD 1200s.
But none of this lets politicians demand and get more money and more power. And neither does it let the media get advertising money from all the commercial enterprises that want to sell you something, or get your money taken by the government so that the government can give them money.
Which is why lovers of liberty need to dig deeply into the claims and find the real science, not the faked-up, politically-correct “science” that supports the fearmongering of government, politicians, media, and all the “Big” business goods and services peddlers!
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Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.