Climate Conspiracy?

I've always loved a good conspiracy and continue to believe that every theory has its foundation in an element of truth, no matter how minute it may seem.

The death of Marilyn Monroe always had a fascination for conspiracy theorists linking her "suicide" to the Mafia, the CIA or even directly to the Oval Office. Now it comes out that even the FBI believed there was more to it than a simple overdose by a desperate woman.

Perhaps we'll hear more about President Kennedy's assassination or Harold Holt's underwater journey in a Chinese submarine as time goes by? ;-)

Meanwhile, over at the Washington Times, debate continues about the cause of climate change. This time the suggestion is that the United Nations is part of some conspiracy to promote human activity as the leading cause of global warming.

For the purposes of ... what, exactly? I have no idea!

Ali Sevin writes that

Two separate NASA landings on Mars showed the ice cap at the southern pole (frozen CO2) has been receding as a result of solar activity. If the sun is warming Mars it should also be warming the Earth unless some unknown phenomenon directs any increase in solar radiation only toward Mars.

Further to this "evidence" is the airing of a documentary called "The Great Global Warming Scandal" on London's TV Channel 4 which, according to film reviews not cited by Sevin,

is a devastating blow to the U.N. report and to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

Sevin has a point - maybe unusually large and frequent solar flares are to blame for the increase in world temperatures!

But if Earth is like a pot of soup sitting on a stove (the sun) that can't be turned down, surely you'd want to lift the lid a bit to allow some ventilation, rather than adding extra gases that will only serve to build up the heat! Wouldn't you?? Derrr!

Global warming or climate change by any other name is still a slow road to extinction just the same.