This is an article that I solicited from Craig Hill, former US Senate candidate from Vermont and 9/11 truther. I asked Craig to write this article from heated debates on the 9/11 Boston Tea Party listserve. Some 9/11 truthers, like Alex Jones, advocate that Global Warming is a hoax. However, like 9/11 as a false flag operation, the evidence for man-made global warming is overwhelming.

This article was originally posted in the June 20, 2007 issue of www.FlybyNews.com - item 3 - Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness – Building Coalitions - - Warming and 9/11 Related Danger Zones.

WARMING:
The bigger, more urgent reason to bring down the perps of 9/11 ~~
By Craig Hill

9/11 folk rightly consider themselves aware of the most chilling of conclusions: That not only can it happen here, it has happened here. Our government, including the Pentagon and the opposition party which refuses to oppose, hand-in-hand with the media and corporate power in general, have all combined to assassinate the Republic, by attacking its own citizens en route to world domination of dirty 20th century Middle East energy and by dismantling our constitutional and human rights, save, perhaps, the right to property.

We are a hardy bunch. We go where many, if not most, cannot bear to tread, even for an instant. We do so for we see that the only way to stop the cancer before it kills us is to address it, and the only way to address is to realize It has happened here, a fascist-military takeover of government and, increasingly, society. We are energetic in our desires to inform our more somnambulant fellow-citizens, as they sleepwalk through their semi-conscious days, so they can join us in our outrage and determination to stop buscism (the particular brand of American fascism we suffer), for we know we are powerful only in our numbers so long as we are actively opposing the tightening noose.

The damage done and the power abused by the perpetrators is not confined to the known effects of 9/11, however, but in many other socio-ecological-political realms. For a movement such as 9/11"truth", born of sensitive antennae, we bear signs of tone-deafness to other dramatic aspects of the oil uber alles bunch as they rampage the globe in suppression of freedom.

The single greatest fact of our time is that we are well into the 6th Great Extinction. Much if not most of all species currently living will die out over the next dozens of decades due to our anthropocentric Godzillaesque footprint. There is much we can do to stop it, by slowing it down before it takes us with it, but if we cannot loosen the grip of the lunatics in charge, and soon, much of what we think of as "Earth" will be unrecognizable to our distant descendants(---as if!).

The most palpable of the changes associated with the current Great Extinction is the one we are most immediately sensitive to, the weather. Global warming aka climate change, though easily tracked for many decades, as has been done, is still under the radar of many of otherwise mentally healthy 9/11-aware activists. That this is still occurring at this very late date is indicative that the closed-minded disease which plagues our 9/11unaware brethren is easily caught, though the victim never realizes it until, as is presumed, s/he is crushed by that which s/he does not know is coming home to roost, and it is too late.

It is not too late to lower the worst possible effects of continued warming, but barely. We have perhaps five years to dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions, including the burning of coal and gasoline via internal combustion, before positive reinforcement of the growth of co2 in the atmosphere begins to blossom exponentially to what it has so far, and life become literally unlivable for all but a few tortured members of the species responsible.

Throughout human existence, the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide has been atmospherically stable at 280 parts per million. Over the last 100 years, as that admixture has grown to 380 ppm, the greenhouse cap has been placed over the steeping pot and, just as it would on a tepid stove, the ice is melting, rapidly, from pole to pole, ice which is necessary to reflect heat and sunlight back into space. No ice, no reflection, and the poles act as a blotter of the trapped heat, increasing it to the point it releases, as will soon begin in earnest, methane trapped in miles-thick tundra around specifically the northern pole. Methane being about 20 times more powerful, albeit shorter-lived, than a molecule of co2, we near the conditions of a previous Great Extinction caused by equally massive releases of methane into the atmosphere. When co2 concentrations reach 1000 ppm, life as we think of it is pretty much kaput. Consider there are thousands of BILLIONS of TONS of methane trapped in Arctic tundra, and 1000 ppm does not sound at all far-fetched.

Computer models of the growth of warming since their inception in the late '80s have been consistently understated, which is to say predictions made for 2020 have appeared in 2005, and conditions predicted for 2040 have been up ticked to appear soon. The poles and Greenland, which is the island along with Antarctica which will raise sea levels some three dozen feet worldwide, are melting at a rate 3 1/2 times faster than was predicted as recently as May 2007 (that's right). Every glacier on Earth is melting completely away; that 40% of the world's fresh drinking and growing water is dependant on streams soon to go dry is precursor to monumental dislocation, famine and death on a horrifically global scale. One glacier in Bolivia will cease to exist in 2008. The 200,000 consumers of its soon-vanished water have nowhere to go. Rainfall patterns are shifting, which means even more increased drought in many more places than the few we are currently ignoring.

The oceans can absorb no more of the heat we are so idiotically creating. They have reached the suffocation point to the degree the plankton, that basic foodstuff of the seas, is dying. The oceans will eventually emit more greenhouse gases than they are soaking up unless we stop our furnace-blast activities and institute renewables immediately, an imminently achievable short-term goal.

Deserts around the world are spreading north and south from the equator. Earthworms, a reliable canary in this coal mine, are dying as the soil turns to sand. High nighttime temperatures, the hallmark of warming, are parching the formerly moist Midwest soil. Beijing has a desert right outside the city limits because its top-down beauracracy of political control is too institutionally myopic to grasp what it's doing to itself. While the Amazon, the lungs of the planet, is being rapidly clear cut, the soil is desertifying, and once soil goes to sand (see the Sahara) it doesn't come back.

Despite all of this, or because none of it is being recognized, we think our most important goal is to get the perps destroying our rights, and we are right, but for much greater reason than the merely wimpy human one that one form of governance is superior than another. As our fight goes on the world shrivels and desiccates. The realizations of 9/11 go hand-in-hand with warming in that, as we press our prime issue to bring down corporate government in toto---like a skyscraper in its own footprint---we do so, unknowingly, to stop the wars for oil responsible for the bipartisan policy that caused traitors to orchestrate 9/11 in the first place: So that we may move into the Age of Biology, to eliminate dirty 20th century energy in favor of clean green 21st century sustainable energy, to get a handle on warming, to ameliorate the great death-wish of its apocalyptic promoters, who are no less than the perps of 9/11, and who as with 9/11 have shrouded the evil effects of warming in unscientific myth and lie as they have poorly though successfully covered up the vast multiplicity of their other crimes.

Imagine how much more urgent and, yes, even energetic we would be if we understood even more the good cause we must win.