Today's war is not much different.  In this war the environmental conscience is abused as a driver with which mankind is induced to destroy its most vital technologies that support human existence.  With the ban of the DDT pesticide, mankind's weapon against malaria was destroyed and a vital factor in protecting crops was eliminated.  With the ban of the CFC refrigerant, cold storage food protection and air conditioning was brought under attack.  With the "Global Warming" myth mankind's red-meat supply has been put under attack, and mankind's energy production.  As of late, methyl bromide has been added to the list, which is scheduled to be eliminated in the near future.  According to a report in The New Federalist, methyl bromide is used in agriculture as a soil fumigant before planting, where it kills nematodes, insect larvae, and fungi that would attack and kill young seedlings. "Crop yields are increased by 500% as a result of using methyl bromide,"*(The New Federalist, April 8, 1996) the paper reports.  This vital substance is scheduled to be eliminated under the "Ozone Hole" myth.  What the result will be when a 500% yield increase can no longer be maintained in an environment of escalating food shortages is not hard to figure out.  Countless people will die, especially in the poorer countries whose food is already being exported to the richer nations, such as in Mexico, while its children die of starvation.  This is the true face of mankind's cruelly abused environmental conscience.

In real terms, the greenhouse gases and methyl bromide pose no danger.  Methyl bromide is a simple atom, made up of carbon and hydrogen.  It occurs naturally.  Much of it comes from the oceans where marine microorganisms produce 300,000 tones of it per year.  Methylation is their way to eliminate hazardous substances.  Shutting down mankind's use of this substance would not eliminated it from the atmosphere.  It would merely reduce it's presence by a small margin, while it would reduce mankind's food supply dramatically and cause wide spread induced starvation and death.

Neither are the greenhouse gases the villain they are made out to be.  The greenhouse gases are part of the planet's natural system.  Without the greenhouse gases the earth would be frozen at night like Mars is, at -270 degrees F., and become a boiling hot furnace during the day with temperatures in excess of +212 degrees F.  The effect of the greenhouse gases is to maintain a balance.   While it is true that the CO2 content of the earth has risen over the last 150 years from 280 parts per million to 340 parts per million, the expected global warming of 2 to 4 degrees F. that the computer models would predict for such an increase, has not happened.  The historical increase in the concentration of the greenhouse gases, also is barely above the natural variations with shifts in the 20% range.  The dynamics of the atmosphere are evidently still poorly understood.  Neither are the man-made CO2 gases the chief source of the observed increases or variations.  The oceans, for instance, contain 50 times as much CO2 dissolved in sea water, than the atmosphere does.*(See Encyclopedia Britannica, Geochemistry.)   Variations in ocean currents and temperatures over geological cycles, evidently, have a significant effect on the ocean's impact on changing CO2 cycles in the air.

If one considers the total absence of any evidence of global warming resulting from changing CO2 concentrations (outside the range of natural variations), one can find no justification to demand draconian measures for the elimination of the minute man-made contribution to the greenhouse gases.  For instance, the 50 million tons of greenhouse gases that America's cows contribute each year to the atmosphere are dwarfed by the 50 billion tons of such greenhouse gases that the world's termites generate annually by their particular digestive processes.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche