Honest I believe, really I do

Alright, I have had enough, I am beaten down, I will submit. Yes, at long last I am ready to jump on the Global Warming bandwagon.

I have chosen to join the mass hysteria in spite of my long held disbelief in the myth of global warming as

perpetrated by Al Gore's Holy Church of the Inconvenient Spoof.

I will drink the Kool-aid.

Yes, I am ready to drop my arguments about how we are too insignificant a species to kill a planet and how it will heal itself after we die out like the dinosaurs; if you believe in dinosaurs.

I've decided to drop my argument that in the big secular picture we humans just haven't been relevant long enough to do that much damage and from a religious stand point that if you believe in God then you must believe that humans don't have the power to destroy what God has created.

I am abandoning all those arguments because the planet is truly in danger of climate change. And it has happened before.

There is an evil lurking out there which is in a constant state of forward momentum, a beast bent on global climate destruction, a heartless polluter that has killed over and over again. And by the Gods of Mt. Olympus I want something done about the true and proven cause for climate change in earth's history.
Big Nature.

Yes, I know it is hard to believe but the planet, not humans, is responsible for what is happening and we have to stop it no matter the cost. An intervention is needed to stop this slow global suicide.
Allow me to explain.

Climate changes, as I have learned, come in various sizes and differing degrees and have been fairly frequent in the big picture of planetary history. For the last few billion years the planet has absent mindedly gone through warming and cooling periods that were mild to extreme. There have been times that North America was covered with ice and snow and Antarctica was warm enough to support reptiles and amphibians, based on geologic evidence.

34 million years ago the planet began a steady cooling caused in all probability by Big Nature's mass production of continental drifts which rearranged the way that air and water flow across the planet. An uncaring disinterested planet went along seeing only profit and caring not at all for our future or the future of. . . our children.

This callous and rapid global cooling locked Antarctica murderously in ice leaving the rest of the planet to go into and out of interglacial warming periods such as the one we are in now.

For the last few million years the earth has been on 100,000 year ice age cycles; in other words every 100,000 years or so we get warmer and then colder. This is driven by the unfeeling orbit of the Earth around the Sun in what is called orbital forcing. Talk about being self-absorbed. Yes it is true the planet has the audacity to just orbit and rotate any way it wants with no regard as to what it does to us higher life forms.
Around 70,000 years ago we modern humans were becoming pretty good hunter-gatherers and along with our direct ancestors, other hominids like the brawny Neanderthals in Europe and the Hobbit-like Floresiens of Indonesia were prevalent, until Big Nature got bored and climate became a problem. Some researchers suspect that our species was almost wiped out by an abrupt climate change triggered by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Toba in Indonesia which put 670 cubic miles of ash and dust into the atmosphere - about 2,800 times the quantity released by the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

This vicious and uncaring eruption that Big Nature released might have caused several years of very cold weather causing bottlenecks in isolated human populations and ended the advancement of some human species.

Around 21,000 years ago the planet was in an ice age, what scientists call the Last Global Maximum. This is when sheets of ice covered the majority of North America and Eurasia locking water at the poles and dropping sea levels more than 400 feet below today's levels and exposing the Bering Land Bridge that brought people to what we now call our American home.

Since that time the fickle earth and her arrogant CEO Big Nature has been on a steady warming period; long before industrialization by mankind.

Around 10,000 years ago Big Nature really started to make things warm for us which led us to invent agriculture, form communities, discover arts and sciences and eventually leave the bonds of the planet and go to the moon.

Of course during the last ten millennia climate change in the form of cooling and warming have come and gone most often caused by Big Nature's need to vent by lashing out with volcanic eruptions that throw dust into the atmosphere reflecting sunlight back into space.

Most of the climate changing volcanic eruptions have happened in the last 700 years and came during a period of low solar activity creating what's called the Little Ice Age. Sulfur-rich compounds found in ice cores from Greenland reveal multiple eruptions from the 1580s through the 1830s - all of which may have acted like coolers to an already cool climate. There are also signs in the ice cores of many other unknown eruptions during the 17th and 19th centuries.

Of course the first well-known attempt to make the connection between eruptions and climate was in 1783, when good old Ben Franklin, in France at the time, noticed a haze in the sky and very cool summer weather. He suggested that a volcanic fog might be the cause. He may have been right. That year there was a major volcanic eruption in Iceland.

Today Big Nature is at it again and is attacking our climate with a rash of eruptions that could kill us all.
Big Nature must be stopped.

Currently across the planet volcanoes are filling the atmosphere with pollutants; these highly active and unchecked smokestacks are found in Peru, Ecuador, Japan the West Indies, Indonesia, Guatemala, New Guinea, Russia, Costa Rica and even the American Islands of Hawaii and are just a few of Big Nature's climate change factories throwing millions and millions of dust particles and steam into the air to pollute and destroy our climate.

Today the Chaiten volcano in Chile spewed lava and blasted ash more than 12 miles into the sky. The volcano's five-day eruption has already shot a column of ash across the narrow southern stretch of the continent and over the Atlantic, headed toward America.

All these offenders must be dealt with now. We have wasted too much time trying to blame humans, we now need to put some effort into forcing the planet into submission.

After all if we are powerful enough to destroy the climate and in turn the world and all life on it as some think, we should be powerful enough to stop volcanoes from blocking out the sun and changing our climate, right Al?
-RF