Green is the name of a color. It describes the most obvious commonality among nearly all growing plants. This is something I learned even before I went to school. In school I had a green crayon. Later I learned that it was next to impossible to start a campfire with green wood and that I was a greenhorn at most anything I tried for the first time. Sometime in my youth I learned that those beautiful plants could not survive without carbon dioxide.

It was discovered that the planet Venus has lots of carbon dioxide, so much that it traps heat that keeps the planer hot. They call it the greenhouse effect. Some so called scientist took note of this and figured that Earth would go the way of Venus if we continued to burn gas, oil and coal. He somehow spread this idea around until a lot of folks agreed with his propaganda.

At some bygone time Al Gore, “inventor of the internet”, joined ranks with the tree huggers. I believe he looked at them and saw dollar signs floating all around. If he worked it right he could make a mint of money. All he needed to do was to convince enough people that his kooky ideas were right. With no evidence and plenty of help from environmentalist buddies he proclaimed that the earth was warming; and that it was all caused by human beings, particularly Americans. Thus we who drive more cars than the rest of the world must be responsible for melting glaciers and rising oceans. We must be causing deserts to form. Asia pollutes the earth far more than does the United States, but we are the cause of global warming. This is a giant hoax.

Actually the earth has been cooling for the past ten years, despite more carbon dioxide in the air. Ever more scientists say the globe is in a cooling trend. So what do Al Gore and his ilk say after all the ballyhoo about global warming? Give it a different name, say climate change; but still blame it on our burning of fossil fuels. How can carbon dioxide cause both warming and cooling? The climate has been changing ever since there has been a climate. Could it be that the sun has something to do with climate? There are always storms raging on the sun; but nobody would believe that we dirty humans could influence the sun an iota.

What does all this have to do with “green”? I believe that green is a buzzword that pertains to carbon. “Carbon footprint” is a term tossed around like a football. Any business that uses energy derived from carbon fuel is deemed to have a carbon footprint. The more fuel used, the bigger the footprint, and thus more destructive to the planet. The big prints, according to the powers that be, must be punished.

As I see it, going green is a defensive play. It is designed to give the perception of saving energy whether it does or not. An electric car will use no gasoline, but will it use less energy is in question. Car makers are forced to make little, less safe cars in the name of going green. It seems to be good business to sell “green” products to believers. Even those who need to communicate with their customers are going green via the internet whether or not it is convenient for the customers. There is no thought of saving the planet; it’s just cheaper.

All this talk about saving the planet is not about saving the planet; it’s all about power and money. Anyone who has heard about “cap and tax (excuse me, trade)” should have no doubt about it. Certainly Gore has made his millions, with more to come.

I certainly don’t believe in wasting the world’s resources. It makes perfect sense however to make use of God’s gifts to mankind. I suppose going green is all right if it’s for the right reasons. Fortunately fewer people are being fooled by the hoax that climate change is a manmade thing.