Ms. Pelosi Goes to Greenland

So...Ms. Pelosi goes to Greenland and says this "we saw firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality; there is just no denying it."

"It wasn't caused by the people of Greenland — it was caused by the behavior of the rest of the world," she said.

Scientists have noticed that Greenland's output of ice into the North Atlantic had increased dramatically, doubling over the decade that ended in 2005.

OK, here's the thing - why is Greenland called "Greenland" in the first place? This was a question we joked about when I was in grade school in the 70's - "why is Greenland covered in ice and Iceland green?". Kind of like "why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways?". A conundrum.

I'll tell you why - because when the Vikings discovered the continent 1000 years ago it was - - - - - - - wait for it - - - - - - -Green! Shocking isn't it? Yes, Greenland was once actually green. So green in fact that the Vikings settled on it, built villages, grew crops etc. Evidence of this has been found since the ice has started to recede in many areas. The fact that Greenland is losing it's ice is not only unremarkable, it's the natural course of the continent.

My biggest problem with these climate doomsayers (besides how they are very loose with the science behind their claims) is that they make every single climate event happening today out to be as if this is the first time it's every happened in the history of the Earth's. A 4 BILLION year history.

Does anyone honestly believe that in the last 4 billion years our planet has not warmed and cooled, ice formed and melted, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and wild fires wreaked devastation?

spare me.

I'm still waiting for the day these climate scare mongers somehow blame mankind for earthquakes. Believe me, they're working on it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - we are NOTHING to this planet. It hardly blinks at anything we throw at it. It lives and breathes on a much larger scale than we can imagine. It's been through far worse than we puny, humans with our jet planes and SUV's. If the earth wanted to tomorrow, it could shake us off like bad case of fleas - and it wouldn't miss us. To the Earth we are nothing but a minor surface infestation. When the power of this planet shows itself in earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes etc. we can only get out of it's way. We are POWERLESS to it's forces. To think that we can affect it by driving a car or using a can of hairspray is just sheer lunacy.

It's not only sheer lunacy but intoxicating vanity on our part.