The Smell Test
It's
downright cold here in Virginia this morning. But, thanks to daylight
savings time, and the cloudless sky this first Tuesday of November is
off to a very bright start.
But
still, I have that nagging feeling...in fact I've had it every Autumn
since 1970 that something is not right; something is missing.
And it is: That intoxicating aroma of burning leaves!
A
murdering low life named Ira Einhorn and a few others organized a brand
new party for wanna be American Communists under the banner of Earth
Day, to be held every year on Lenin's birthday.
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Ira Einhorn |
Unfortunately
for Ira, he was unable to attend the subsequent celebrations since he
was overseas running from the law. The police didn't discover that he
had murdered his girl friend, Holly Maddux until 18 months later when
they discovered her body in a trunk in Einhorn's closet. It had been
packed with Styrofoam, air freshners and newspapers.
...and he was bitching about the odor from burning leaves?
At
any rate, Ira and his buddies proposed the ban on leaf burning because
it was known to raise the Earth's albedo (reflectivity)...which
"bounced" away the sun's rays...and kept the earth from "warming," In 1970 the Enviro Nuts had determined that the planet was being destroyed by Global
Cooling!
Obviously, banning leaf burning worked. It caused the heating effect of the sun to increase enough that we averted a new ice age.
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Earth Day, 1970 |
Those
leaves are now packaged in plastic bags and driven by fossil fuel
trucks to landfills where those who know say that they rot and generate
heat and methane without liberating clean carbon dioxide that would have
been used via photosynthesis to increase the forest and ground cover.
There
are now some serious proposals suggesting that the government should
begin injecting particulate matter into the atmosphere at great cost
with the hope of increasing the "albedo."
Beam me up, Scotty.
-Ed
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