Jack Bauer Goes Green

So now the makers of 24 are looking to reduce the carbon footprint the production of the show creates. Blah, blah, blah. Instead of worrying about that, how about trying to reduce the methane released into the environment from a stinkeroo of a season like last year's. Maybe Jack's jumped the shark.

I'm also a little sick of the so-called "inconvenient truth" of global warming in general. It's hip and trendy to be green despite Kermit's protestations otherwise. But this pseudo-science has been declared uncontrovertable even though there was another global calamity about to befall us even within my lifetime. As George Will pointed out in his April 2, 2006 article:

"Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of 'extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation.' Science Digest (February 1973) reported that 'the world's climatologists are agreed' that we must 'prepare for the next ice age.' The Christian Science Monitor ('Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect,' Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers 'have begun to advance,' 'growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter' and 'the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool.' Newsweek agreed ('The Cooling World,' April 28, 1975) that meteorologists 'are almost unanimous' that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said 'may mark the return to another ice age.' The Times (May 21, 1975) also said 'a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable' now that it is 'well established' that the Northern Hemisphere's climate 'has been getting cooler since about 1950.'"

I remember back in the early 70s worrying that humans would go the way of the dinosaurs. Well, they milked all the research funding they could out of global cooling and then did a 180 to claim that the sky was now falling because of global warming. Sure. And then we'll need money to divert an Astroid from a collision course with earth. Of course, then we can just send Jack Bauer or Bruce Willis up to take care of things.