GREENHOUSE GASES! It's a great slogan! Look and listen -

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Another slogan, another sound bite!

Activists who have no idea what they are talking about are both funny and sad.

Oh, and since the same ones wind up in many disparate places, I don't believe they don't fly on those polluting cars and planes they complain about!

Let's see.  Or listen.  It sounds great, "Greenhouse Gas"!  Great sound bite!  Great slogan!  Now, are we for it or against it?

Let's see, it's easy and cheap to make, but really expensive to get rid of.  Well, we want money, so we are AGAINST them!

Quite silly, but perhaps true.

If you scare people, they will hand over their money!  Ask any back-alley mugger if you don't believe me!

We don't have a "(wo)man in the street" interviewer on this site, or we would probably get a lot of laughs out of asking so-called environmentalists what a "greenhouse" actually is.

I'm guessing a fair number think it's a house painted green or is just a catchy slogan.

Those of us who have been in one (or a few) of them (perhaps at a garden nursery, a botanical garden, or a farm) know they are called "green" house not for their color, but for the "greenery" growing inside.

Plants generally like it sunny and warm, and so a greenhouse is a glass structure, with planting beds inside.  The all-glass look allows a tremendous amount of sunlight in, and the glass enclosure keeps that solar energy inside heating up the air inside (supplemented by heating systems in the winter depending on the latitude).

Basic, dare we say "settled," science tells us that hot air rises.  So, the air near the ceiling of the greenhouse is very hot, much hotter than at its ground level. That is just like the attic of a home.  Hot air rises.  It's true everywhere.  The glass ceiling or roof in a greenhouse keeps all that heat in.  (Just like the roof above your attic at home does for the summertime air in your attic.)

Greenhouse gas outside, rising in the sky to act like a greenhouse's glass roof to keep the sun's heat in -- environmentalists use their slogan to get non-thinkers to believe that that's the case, but they know better.

Take an environmentalist like Al Gore or John Kerry.  Up they go in their private jet (piloted, of course, as they hire private servants and don't do things themselves).  But they notice, as we do in commercial and much more environmentally friendly (per person) flights, that the outside air temperature is minus 50 degrees!  It's over a hundred degrees cooler as you go up!  No greenhouse effect, that!

Greenhouse gas?  Sounds good, makes money, but obviously too simplistic and false to be anywhere near the truth! 

So, if these gasses are harmful, climate protesters should tell us how.  We know it's not by turning the earth into a greenhouse (which is hottest at the highest level), so, what is it?  

Just tell us, though, don't glue yourselves to streets or to artworks we all want to enjoy without you in the picture!