24 June 2007

Global Cooling?

"Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get."
--Proverb

Everyone seems to want to do something about Global Warming. I have noticed a trend in the media to press very hard to remind us that we have to do something and we have to do it now. In the meantime, quietly, in less well-known publications, the so-called "settled science" is springing leaks left and right. I read this National Post article out of Canada that claims we are in for a period of global cooling, not warming. Curious, I found that there is plenty of information on how sunspots affect our climate. What does this have to do with guns? Consider that at least one California city has raised the issue of taxing any products that put carbon into the air. This includes toner cartridges for your laser printers, production of carbon-fiber products and, of course, your charcoal BBQ. Sooner or later, one of these bureaucrats will realize black-powder is charcoal based. Never mind that its use is so small as to be insignificant on a global scale, once the bureaucrats can find a way to tax gun products out of existence, they'll certainly try.

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