Flat Earth, Warm Earth

Talking today about some widely accepted lies. Oddly enough, I'm not talking about the fact that there were a lot of people in the past who believed that the Earth was flat, nor to the crazies today who still hold to this theory. The lie I'm talking about today is something that most of us were taught as children, and probably never gave enough thought to realize how irrational it is. This is the idea that Christopher Columbus, and he alone, knew that the Earth was round and set out to prove it.

In fact, I'm sure Columbus did know that the Earth was round, he was a seafaring man, and sailors had been well aware of the true nature of the Earth for Centuries, if not Millenia, before Columbus was ever born. Often we are taught that ancient Sailors would cling to the shore line, being afraid that if they sailed too far away, they might fall off the edge of the Earth. This is not true at all, in fact, as most any sailor can tell you, the most dangerous place to be is too close to the shore, as that's where the water is most shallow.

I remember being taught that Columbus's crew were scared of falling off the edge of the World, and therefore Columbus made false entries in his log so that his crew wouldn't know where they were actually going. This is one of the most ridiculous idea's that any historian (pseudo-historian?) ever came up with. Think about it in terms of today. Is your boss the only person who knows what's going on around your workplace? In my experience, the leader, or boss, or whatever, knows different things, but, unless they were promoted from within, actually know quite a bit less about the actual workings of the workplace than do the workers. If Columbus had actually tried to trick his crew in such a way, they would have thought him a fool, since there were likely many among them who could easily navigate as well as he could. The truth is that they well understood that the Earth was round, and they knew where they were going, they were also probably well aware of the false log entries which Columbus used because he didn't want anyone else to know the route to his "new" resource rich environment.

Just the same however, is the fiasco with Global Warming. I've talked about this quite few times, so I won't dwell on it long today. Just as school history books have been complicit in the Columbus proof of the Earth being round myth, so has the news media been complicit in the Global Warming myth.

For quite some time now we have been hearing that the debate is over. That Global Warming is caused by the actions of man, and if we don't make huge sacrifices and change our lives drastically, the Earth would warm, and some unspecified bad thing would certainly happen as a result... on such flimsy evidence, and such a weak warning, I'm shocked that so many people have been taken in by it.

Strangely enough, the mainstream media is largely ignoring the fact that both Temperature evidence, as well as quite few scientists seem to agree that the trend has turned around we are starting a time of (mild) Global Cooling.

Now I'm waiting for Al Gore's next movie... you know, the one where he tells us that we have to release more carbon, and that we haven't done enough to increase Greenhouse gasses, and that if we don't get moving and get a whole lot more CO2 back in the air, we'll be in an ice age, and the Sea's will freeze, and Port cities today will find themselves hundreds of miles inland... sound crazy? A lot of people didn't think so when his alarmist movie made equally outrageous claims in the opposite direction.

All I'm wondering about now is, how long before the alarmists admit the truth... or will they ever?