Redneck Review!
No. 174 - 8/20/18
A tough decision to make!  On my desk in front of me is a sheet of paper with four topics lurking there, planned as future RNR articles!  Then today's paper came into view, Monday, Aug 20, 2018, with the "blazing" headline:   "Science: Hotter weather spreads Western wildfires."  My first reaction?  Well, do tell! Evidently, this is the "HOTTEST" topic worthy of front page coverage, and that in big letters!
Old age warns me, this is dangerous territory!  Or maybe it should be said, only a total fool would put in print what is about to flow from my computer.  Afterall, anyone who is foolish enough to take an opposite stand from the current "politically correct" position on "global warming," or "climate change" which is heard more often, is asking for labels like "dumb," maybe even "stupid," or perhaps something even more devastating!
Hey, as one old saying goes: "Fools walk in where angels fear to tred!"  Well, no angel is at this keyboard today, but the following dissent flows quickly off of my keyboard with no hesitation!  For just few of the reasons available, we choose to disagree here with the general picture painted by the newspaper today and the backers of "Climate change."
First, old "Red Necks" like myself stubbornly cling to the belief that a loving and creator God is in charge, and for obvious reasons would not look down with an ornery gleam in His eye as  we mankind kill ourselves by using carbon based gas and oil to fuel our vehicles, warm our homes, and power our factories!  Really, the resource is there, and in fact, in greater quantities than thought possible just a few decades ago. Even the Tribune agrees,
for on page 2 of the same paper it says, "Just 10 years ago..., oil prices were... $147 per barrel... and are now about $65... " because of the "world's vastly changed reality when it comes to oil..." availability!  Perhaps we might remember what was said here months ago:
"Does it make sense that a loving God would put a delicious apple tree in front of a man who is starving, and not expect the fellow to reach up and eat?"  Why is it any different here, that resources are available for our use in increased amounts, only to find out that their use would bring on disaster?  Ridiculous! The claim here is that it is only in the imagination of modern proud men that puny humans even have the ability to radically change this situation!
More reasons for the disagreement ventured here! On page five of the same paper, we read, "The five years with the most acres burned since 1983 averaged ...1.2 degrees warmer than average and 2.4 degrees hotter than the years with the least acres burned, AP's analysis shows."  Hmmm!  How is it possible to so accurately determine the entire average temp in the U.S. to "1.2" degrees?  Did that include data from our Camas Prairie?  Was it taken at exactly the same time of day everywhere? Did it include KLEW's nightly weather report that constantly shows record highs and lows only very rarely today... most in years long past? And what about the fact that government "management" of our forests has in the past helped create untouched forests that have accumulated fuels that provide the biggest and hottest fires?  Even admitted by many experts today, that thinned and harvested forests are far less prone to disastrous fires? Have these things been factored into the conclusions?
Finally, there are other big reasons to believe that there is definitely a different point of view on the cause of highs and lows in average temperature world wide and in the United States! But limitations on space here dictates that a look at those reasons will have to be postponed to next week and in the future!  Meanwhile, best bet here is that the God above is in charge! 
Jake Wren

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