Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:38:53 EST
From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Flash! Environmentalists switch off Earth's volcanoes (was: The Fr
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In article <1992Dec12.023549.763@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com
(harold.r.holm) says:

Oh, boy. This one was a real humdinger...

>In article <1992Nov28.200433.27906@seq.uncwil.edu>, session@seq.uncwil.edu    k
>>
>> What on earth are you talking about. The unusually cold summer was
>> acurately PREDICTED by several leading atmospheric scientists. The
>> reason is simple. Ashe from Mt. Pinatubo shielding the earth from the
>> sun. However, these scientists also said that this effect will be short
>> lived (after all the ashe does eventually wash out) and it will back to
>> business as usual with temperatures going back on an upward trend,
>> which they have been on for over 100 years.

>So, once the ash washes out of the atmosphere, global warming goes
>right on its merry way, never to be interrupted again??

Clue: who said it wouldn't be interrupted again? Reading the quoted
text very carefully I saw no assertion that there would be no more
volcanoes or other processes interfering with the greenhouse effect.
The following inferences come from no source but a fevered imagination.

  Yes, folks,
>after a couple of billion years' worth of volcanic eruptions, the
>environmentalists have suddenly declared that Mt. Pinatubo will be
>the *last one ever*, and that from now on, no other active volcanoes
>will be allowed to interfere with the big, bad global warming boogeyman

I'll be as clear as I can: Mt. Pinatubo caused a TEMPORARY reduction
in temperature due to the ash it threw into the atmosphere. Gradually
this ash settles out, stops reflecting away sunlight, and whatever
long-term atmospheric processes (such as, say, the greenhouse effect)
return to their charted course. Let's say in a few years another big
volcano goes up. It'll throw ash into the atmosphere, which will reflect
sunlight and cool things down for a few years until it settles, and then
back to ol' Mr. Greenhouse. Is that simple enough to comprehend?

>(which actually plays right into the hands of the environmentalist
>tree-hugger agenda, ironically.)

No! Comrades, we have been found out! Retreat to Havana!

 How great to know that the environ-
>mentalists secretly have the power to switch off some of the strongest
>forces in nature---at will, and forever!!!   After all, they can't
>allow nature itself to get in the way of their *plans* for regimenting what
>humanity does economically now, can they???

You forgot the bit about how the environmentalists have planted hidden
cameras and microphones in your house, and follow you everywhere you go.

>Yup, no more volcanoes to worry about--ever--now that the 'Cause-We-Say-So
>Environmentalist Movement is exerting its secret power over the biosphere.

Watch it or we'll vector a tornado right down on your head. Don't mess with
the Omnipotent Evil Environmentalist Conspiracy.

>This is is an obvious example of what Mr. Limbaugh means when he talks
>about the arrogance of liberals, i.e, to make such sweeping, baseless, PHONY
>presumptions.

This is a classic example of posting with the brain still in neutral. Maybe
even in reverse.

"Thank you, Dr. Science."

[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
DISCLAIMER: If PSU knew I had opinions they'd probably try to charge me for it.