Bill Clinton and Dancing with the Stars

Two big items of news today from former president Bill Clinton. The first is that he considered going on Dancing with the Stars but decided against it since he did not have enough time to practice. The second is that Clinton said that the Republican presidential candidates who did not accept man made global warming were making America look like a joke. Clearly, the truly big news is Dancing with the Stars. Just imagine it! Bill gets to dance around with some lovely young lady on TV and spend a great deal of quality time with her "practicing". My guess is that the lure of this was nearly irresistable to Clinton. Even so, he was able to control himself and say no. It is a major accomplishment by the former president and one that preserves the dignity of the office.

The global warming remark is, on the other hand, a typical Clintonian political jab. Clinton, no matter what one thinks of his conduct, is an extremely smart man. I am sure that he has seen all of the recent data that has come out with regard to man made global warming. 1)NASA satellites kept track for 11 years of the amount of heat radiated into space and these figures show that the computer models on which man made global warming theory is based are inaccurate in a major way. 2)The theory that climate change is dependent on cosmic rays creating clouds in the upper atmosphere was supported by experimental data compiled at CERN. This data is the first real example of any climate theory showing support in real data. Of course, this theory completely undermines the claim that human activity causes global warming. 3)Historical data regarding the Carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere and the world climate has been released after being compiled from fossils dating back hundreds of millions of years. In previous eras, the Carbon dioxide levels were many times higher than they are now, but the world temperature was lower. Since the theory that humans are causing global warming depends on the relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature, this historical data puts a big hole into global warming theory.

None of these facts will stop a fanatic like Al Gore from promoting the global warming theory. He makes too much money from that activity for him to stop now. Bill Clinton, on the other hand should and probably does know better. Clinton should realize that global warming is too important an issue to be used a a political ploy. But then again, he still is Bill Clinton. Just knowing that something is wrong will not stop him.