Climate scare blown up by geology

And the list goes on. The fact that one of the world's largest scientific organizations,the International Union of Geological Sciences, representing over a million geoscientists, refuses to yield to activist scientists who want to label the period since 1950 as the Anthropocene epoch, largely to boost concern about the supposed human impact on the climate is telling. Michelle Sterling of Friends of Science, a group founded largely by geologists, explains this revealing story here.

It is long past time that courses in geology be made mandatory in elementary and high schools across the western world. This, perhaps more than any other action, would end the climate scare almost overnight as students are able to put today's events into a geologic perspective.

Comedian the late George Carlin must have taken a course in geology. For in his monologue about the insanities of modern environmentalism, Carlin said:

Compared to the people, the planet is doing great: been here four and a half billion years! … We've been here what? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus four and a half billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow, we're a threat? That somehow, we're going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the Sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us: been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drifts, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... and we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?