oh boy it is hot outside!

Boy, it is hot outside!

By David Verveer

On the 16^th of July, precisely at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the temperature on the ground, in Kibbutz Sde-Boker (central Negev desert in Israel) reached a soaring 41 °C, the highest in July for over 7 years, again demonstrating that our earth is warming up, provided it would have been a news item published today, but this recorded hot day occurred in 1962, long before global heating was discovered by our environmental guardians.

How simple and good was our life in those innocent early days, we could still enjoy a vacation included field trips with car and tractor, burning fossil power, creating CO2, without feeling guilty that our holydays caused indirectly the end of the civilized world, we know and love. You remember the camp fires in the middle of nowhere, our friends and us sitting around, signing songs, even dancing, enjoying the smell of burning wood, what did we know that we personally were forcing our great grandchildren to leave our globe and look for their future on another planet. Ignorant simpletons we were.

Today, we realize that when there are floods in England, the worst in 70 years, we caused it, with our irresponsible behavior, years back. The same goes of course for the drought which England suffered from a few months earlier, all caused by Global Warming. Please do not ask why droughts and floods caused by too much rain, have the same culprit, this horrible gas, the so-called CO2 or Carbon dioxide or sometimes also indicated as Green house gas. We are no scientists, we believe when one shows us terrible pictures of melting glaziers, ice bears looking for ice cream, etc.

But the punishment for our crimes is already here, the bread price rose now by x percent, as Prophet Al Gore declared that use of fossil power is only for the rich and the rest will have to look for alternative energy sources such as synthesis gas, bio-gas, and fuels derived from organic matter such as grains, causing a sudden dramatic world flour price hike, which of course does not help to limit usage of fossil fuel, (but surely helped the bank account of those huge grain growers, who before non-subsidized, at a low price did not want to continue to feed the world poor) and drove those poor world masses to deviate from their usual healthy diet based on bread and water, going instead to wine and cake (quoting somehow an advise by the late empress of France and also the enlightened Israeli MP Abrahams).

How ignorant we were, when we thought that CO2 is actually a gas beneficial in nature, causing plants to grow, increasing rainfall, thinking that the atmosphere is composed mainly of oxygen and nitrogen, but it also contains minute quantities (about .03 per cent of carbon dioxide, playing an important role in stabilizing temperatures both near the earth’s surface and in the upper atmosphere. IN the old days they told us, that the so-called green house gazes, which heavier than air, form a screen round the organic plants, block the escape of cooler air to the atmosphere, enabling maintenance of a cooler environment in which the plant survives.

But than came the Green revolution, who told you to forget every thing you ever learned, to recognize your crimes, causing this poor whale to enter the Thames last year; causing the recent earth quakes and tsunamis, the bush fires in Africa, America, etc. all climatic disasters, you know you are to blame, why didn’t you protest incineration of waste?

Why did you allow atomic power plants to provide you energy (is nuclear power “green energy”?). Your meek excuse, I did not know what I did, doesn’t work, our new church, the Green revolution, with prophet Al Gore, tells you to change your way, you stop using your car to work, you dry your wash the natural way, without dryer, you reduce use of the electricity, and fight all progress as it will surely harm the fine attuned balanse between nature and environment. Stop the making of new highways, as it will harm the rabbits, stop planning in saving the Dead Sea by creating a pipe system, supplying water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, stopping the collapse of the soils, due to the declining groundwater level, endangering for the second time the people living in the Dead Sea area (first time, see bible).

Of course, giant concerts aiming to safe the earth, which are in fact the precise opposite in trying to stop creating CO2 free atmosphere, with Gore appearing, without really being there, and with Madonna (not the one of the new testament) and other Gore disciples performing, brought us one step nearer to the second coming (what ever that means), perhaps the last air ship fleeing burning mother earth to star XYZ in the Gore galaxy.

I really do not understand my ignorant neighbors protesting me trying to aerobically compost my organic waste in my third floor flat, don’t they know anything?