As the cries of global warming, oops, "climate change" -- is that vague enough? -- go on, we're forced to put things in geologic perspective.

In college geology, we learned about the geologic time scale versus the human time scale -- and the geometric difference between them. If geologic time were represented by a 60-minute clock, the first modern man doesn't appear on it until . . . 59:59:22.

 

 

That's some gap; talk about the eleventh hour.

The geologic name for the past 550 million years of Earth's known history is Phanerozoic, during which period there have been five ice ages.

So ice ages are actually rare; rare if you consider that they've existed only nine percent "out of the last 550 million years [when] the Earth has had permanent ice caps on one or both poles."

 

While many of today's climate change advocates are well meaning, others may not be as innocuous.

Similar to the way they've funded both sides of past murderous, catastrophic wars -- making lots of money no matter who wins or is killed -- the too-big-to-jail bailed-out banks are among climate change's biggest cheerleaders; financial hyenas salivating at the prospect of underwriting and taxing an estimated "$90 trillion of infrastructure investment."

The monstrous, criminal banks. How credible is that. Be very careful of the company you keep.

Has there been global warming? Sure: 60 million years ago; 290 million years ago; 310 million years ago; 450 million years ago.

But as geologic time clearly demonstrates, humankind has played a mostly nonexistent role.

With the Earth's temperature rising first, only then followed by a rise in CO2, the enormous power of the sun (sun spots) has helped cause climate change. Some also claim that this correlates with "major earthquakes, volcano eruptions, floods, cyclones and natural disasters."