A 61 minute stem-winder was given on the Senate floor today by one of California's dimmest elected bulbs, Barbara Boxer. Serving this term as the Albert A. Gore, Jr. czar of the Senate Global Warming Will Kill All Life On Earth If We Don't Regulate Everything Committee, Senator Boxer spewed enough CO2 single-handedly today during her speech to be classifed a gross polluter.
During her chart and quote-laden presentation, in which she holds that there is no credible dissent tolerated anymore about the catastrophe of global warming, no acceptable view that might hold that whatever warming that is occurring is cyclical and not deserving the hysteria it is being met with by liberals, the only interesting part was to see if she'd somehow weave the California fires being global warming's fault.
She made it a good three-quarters through her rant without making the reference. But like a moth fluttering around the blue flourescent light hanging off the eave of the roof, she just couldn't resist flying into the zapper.
Fires a consequence of climate change. Now listen, this is touching my heart, because my state has been burning. And all of you know this, and all of you have been most wonderful to us, to Senator Feinstein and to me, about offering help and assistance. Well in the long run, we need to do something about global warming or we're going to have that horrible combination of drought, low humidity, high temperatures, and terrible winds, weather extremes, Madame President, that you've experienced from time to time. This is what we're going to see. Greek Prime Minister, Costas Karamanlis, said that the weather phenomena this year favored as never before the outbreak of destructive fires. We are already living with the consequences of climate change. So this just gives you an idea.
Yes, dear Senator Boxer, it does give us an idea, the idea that you are a complete and total moron. You have been representing California, or at least the liberal parts of it, in the Senate for fifteen years, and you act like you've never heard of a Santa Ana wind before. Drought, low humidity, high temperatures and terrible winds? Senator Boxer, Los Angeles has a simple name for all of that...it's called autumn. But this doesn't fit the Boxer global warming meme.
In Boxer speak, if we don't do something about global warming, this normal weather pattern is going to continue. So if the Earth cools down a degree or two over the next century, is that going to prevent high pressure systems from parking over the four corner states in the Southwest like they've done since the beginning of recorded weather? If the Earth cools, will the local mountains flatten out so that the air mass coming off these high pressure systems doesn't get funneled and accelerated into the Los Angeles basin?
The global mean temperature will obviously do nothing to change the elevation of different land masses in the interior of the United States, and anyone that knows anything about this part of the country knows that. You'd think Ms. Boxer would know, but she may not be that bright.
In citing the Greek prime minister, the one she sounded like she'd never heard of before trying to pronounce his last name, butchering it in the process, she, and Prime Minister Karamanlis for that matter, are ignoring one teensy-weensy detail that both the Greek fires from earlier this year and the California wildfires do have in common, and that is they were both started by multiple arsonists. There were public statements by Greek officials that openly wondered if the series of fires there were the work of al Qaeda, because of the number of the fires at the same time, and that they were arson-caused. While the cause of all the California fires haven't been determined yet, several of them are suspected of being started intentionally. You can say what you want about global warming, but you can't say if we reverse it, arsonists will be out of business.
I know there have been people on both sides of the aisle that have made dumb comments in regards to the fires in California. But it takes a special level of stupidity to say something it while using props to do it.
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