One can rightly argue that the Global Warming movement has become a religion in and of itself. It certainly has the necessary ingredients - and the funding.

Who pays for all the billboards and the advertising? Who pays for the lobbyists and the lawyers? Follow the money, and those that stand to gain (the jilted Al Gore). Always.

I understand why many people have fallen for this movement. With so many aspects of our lives and our futures out of our hands, it is comforting to some to be part of a "real" solution. To have some semblance of control concerning their own destiny, and indeed the destiny of all that follow. Something they can actually take an active part in solving, a gift for future generations. A legacy.

Making matters worse is that there are legitimate concerns, many of the government's own making, that we could be concentrating on. The widespread use of depleted uranium ( 4.5 billion year half-life) weapons in theaters of war is far more environmentally destructive than a million poorly tuned cars. And we toss it around by the ton, poisoning the very earth we care so deeply about. I even saw a show on the Military Channel that actually touts its usage and capabilities. I also believe that its usage is in violation of one or more international treaties and laws.

With all this emphasis on nature, I can't believe that we don't hold our food and water to the same standards. Our food supply is not only unnatural but toxic. Our pets eat better than we do. We simply are not designed to metabolize and process the thousands of chemicals we take in every day. They end up in a fat cell somewhere, festering and causing us great harm.

Mankind has survived tens of thousands of years on a natural diet, and now it's a rare phenomenon if you don't have ten prescriptions by the time you turn 40. Now that's not natural.

Science is not infallible, and could be used for both good and for evil, not to sound comic book cliche'. I've often lamented that this is indeed the greatest of times to be alive, but at the same time it's the worst.

The point is that human activity likely has no impact on that warming one way or the other. It's going to get warmer or colder no matter what we do. It has always been this way, and it will always be until the Sun swallows the Earth. We are small and insignificant.

You may ask why the ice caps on Mars and Venus are also declining. Certainly not SUV's, and I don't think the rovers put out much CO2.

There exists a vast yellow orb normally visible in the daytime sky. It's called the Sun, and it provides heat and energy for the planets of our solar system. In fact, this floating mudball we call home revolves around this orb at regular intervals, in essence our keeper of time and seasons.

As this mudball revolves around the orb, it wobbles slightly on its elliptical, not circular, path. This wobble changes the vertical angle that the mudball faces the orb, thereby slightly altering the scope of the area feeling the energy of the Sun.

Here's something you can try with the kiddies. Find yourself a globe and a flashlight. Position the flashlight at a distance from the globe where the beam doesn't reach the poles, and mark a spot on the globe at the edge of the beam.

Now insert a thin object such as a floppy disk under the stand of the globe to change the angle, representing the inherent orbital wobble, and note the change in the beam's position on the globe. Now think about how much difference a minute change in the Earth's angle would be felt across 93 million miles.

You have other factors as well, all natural phases. The Moon has both a gravitational and magnetic effect as it also orbits both the Sun and Earth. The other planets have similar effects as they travel their own distinct orbits.

And then, if you had read the article I cited, you would have read that the last major warming period caused the rise in CO2, not the other way around. That also happened to be when Greenland was actually green and plant life flourished upon the Earth.

Sunspot activity and other Solar forces also play a large part in determining global temperatures. Ocean currents effect weather, and are effected thenselves by planetary and solar activity. I don't even dispute that global warming has occured, and the latest scientific data suggests that it stopped years ago, without our help.

My problem stems from the notion that humanity is ultimately to blame, and we must punish ourselves for being so careless. We need to conserve toilet paper while the Political Class jets around the world and squanders what they demand we cut back for ourselves. I wonder how much gas our war machine sucks down on an average day in Iraq.

These cycles have been occuring for untold millenia. There are forces at play in the universe that we will never even come close to understanding or quantifying, yet here we are ready to be taxed and regulated into oblivion trying once again to outsmart and outmaneuver Mother Nature.

We have no perspective anymore. All we know is what happened five minutes ago and how the media spins it. Hell, I learned half this crap in grade school. Global Warming is a complete and utter fantasy dreamed up in order to consolidate power and control resources, thereby controlling society altogether, not to mention we get to play Army in foreign lands, and control their societies as well - what's left of them.

How does the saying go? The bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe? All of this information is out there for people that really want to know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Don't believe anything you see on TV, unless there's actually something on top of your TV.

Jane, you ignorant slut...