Don’t scientists talk to each other? For years, the Union of Concerned Scientists has told us the polar bears are dying and Hollywood is gonna be underwater (we wish) due to global warming, but if they read the Grower’s Guide out of Colfax, Washington, they’d realize we need to speed up global warming, not slow it down.

I read the Grower’s Guide religiously and not only because they carry my column. Recently I read a fascinating article in it that said Earth is not the best planet in the universe for humans to live. According to the article by Sara Zaske, first appearing in Washington State University News, we don’t have the best of everything. Sara says “there are 4,500 known exoplanets beyond our solar system.” Researchers looked at all of them and “identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions more suitable for life than our own.”

This article also appeared in the journal Astrobiology. I let my subscription to that august publication run out but you’d think some scientists read it. If they did they’d know researchers made a list of traits that “superhabitable planets” would have. For example, an improved Earth would be larger, wetter, and get this... a better Earth would be warmer!

STOP THE PRESSES! 

We’re spending trillions trying to stop global warming when according to these researchers the mean surface temperature of Earth would be more ideal if it was five degrees Celsius or 8 degrees Fahrenheit HOTTER!

Even though scientists in Sweden have found that during the last 70 years their country experienced a change in their temperature of exactly ZERO degrees, Al Gore insists the earth has experienced a net degree change since 1850 of ONE degree due to man-made greenhouse gases. If we’re going to feed everyone, and if Earth needs to be five degrees Celsius hotter to achieve maximum food production, and if we only increased by one degree in the last 170 years that means we won’t reach our ideal temperature on Earth for 850 YEARS!

Do you realize what this means? It means we need MORE farting cows, more fossil fuel burning F350 Ford pickups and Chevy Tahoes and we need to rid the world of Priuses. In light of this new information Smart Cars really are stupid cars. We need to restart those coal plants if we’re to have any chance of reaching our ideal temperature. We don’t need to stop global warming, we need to speed it up. Get rid of that energy efficient refrigerator, tear the solar panels off your roof, let the air out of your tires so you get worse gas mileage and better yet, buy a jet like the one Leonardo DiCaprio rides around in to attend global warming conferences.

Ask for a straw even if you don’t use one, don’t ride share, peel out every time the traffic light turns green and quit freezing in your own home. Crank that thermostat up to 72 degrees and leave it there, even when you’re not home, and for gosh sakes, quit planting trees and Brussel Sprouts (yuck!) because they consume carbon dioxide which lowers the temperature here on Earth.

We don’t have much time to waste. The researchers also found that our sun is not ideal either because it has a relatively short life span of ten billion years and we wasted the first 4.5 billion when no form of complex life lived here. That means the human race only has 5 billion years or so left to live. And more bad news... if you’re thinking we can just escape to one of those 24 planets that are more ideal to life keep in mind that the closest ones are one hundred light years away and one light year is six trillion miles. That’s a 6 with 12 zeroes!

Elon Musk better get on this problem right away or we’re all going to freeze to death when the sun goes out.                  

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