Climate Change?

Not according to Norman Dennison, a nobody who founded a local Tea Party branch in Indiana. "It's a flat-out lie," Dennison claimed, "I read my bible, He made this earth for us to utilize."

Fantastic, global warming isn't real because it's not in the bible. If you were on the fence about climate change, there's all the evidence you need. Of course, it doesn't matter why you don't believe in climate change, the fact that you don't means you're ignorant. That word is often synonymous with danger, as is certainly the case when discussing climate change.

It won't surprise you to find out that denying climate change is a pillar of faith for the Tea Party. The Tea Party has the ability to find itself on the wrong side of almost every argument, an impressive feat. However the anti-climate change demagoguery isn't limited to Tea Partiers, and the danger that line of thinking presents should scare all Americans.

As I've mentioned dozens of times, and as all intelligent people recognize, and as scientific evidence shows, the Earth is getting warmer. There are going to be severe consequences if we don't fix that problem. I don't expect the world to end tomorrow, but as populations and standards of living worldwide increase simultaneously, we're going to put more of a strain on our resources, and more of a strain on Mama Planet.

As a species, we'll find a way to fix the problem before we kill ourselves off - although we may significantly thin the planet's biodiversity before that happens - but America is going to find itself in a new and uncomfortable spot on the world stage if we don't accept climate change and embrace alternate and green energy technologies.

If not then we'll continue to fall further and further behind China and even the stagnant and fading EU, which isn't really either of those things. The world's mightiest power and greatest country is allowing a handful of idiots backed by hundreds of millions of special interest dollars to handcuff us to to oil and coal.

And as long as we stay the course we'll sit idly by and watch the world get dirtier, and then proceed to get cleaner as people begin to buy their solar panels, wind turbines and bullet trains from China, Japan and Germany. We'll sit stubbornly in our SUVs and deny that there was ever a problem, and we'll wonder why the dynamic American economy can't keep pace with it's competitors. We're making all the wrong decisions today, and it's going to bite us on the butt tomorrow.

But fear not, Lisa Deaton, another Tea Party nut has some words of encouragement, "They're trying to use global warming against the people, it takes away our liberty." (Note to the reader, interpret that statement at your own risk).

Deaton continues, "Being a strong Christian, I cannot help but believe the Lord placed a lot of minerals in our country and it's not there to destroy us." (Note to the reader, THESE are the people against climate change!)

Don't worry, America, if God is for us, who can be against us...how about Mother Nature and the economies of China and the EU? Oh, and the Tea Party.