EDITORIAL - Just when you thought the world was wise to the global warming panic, Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner have introduced a bill to severely restrict carbon emissions from U. S. sources. Their bill is scheduled for Senate debate in June.

Debate about the causes and effects of global warming continue in the scientific community, but it is clear that global warming alarmists, particularly Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore, based their claims on short-term and cyclical climatic changes which may be wholly or largely independent of human influence. If this selective statistic methodology has been accepted by the portion of scientists who blame man for climate change, then I have a few more disturbing trends to report.

For example, since approximately 22 December 2007, I have noticed that the periods of daylight in any given 24 hour span have been increasing, while periods of darkness during the same interval have been decreasing. This is a steady and verifiable trend throughout the northern hemisphere. Computer models have shown that if this trend continues, and it shows no indication of doing otherwise, that we will soon have constant daylight and no darkness on the upper half of the Earth. This will result in drastically higher temperatures, widespread sleep deprivation, and extremely poor astronomical viewing conditions.

This is clearly a wake-up call to governments around the world to join in a global effort to stem the tide of expanding daylight. The use of artificial light should be outlawed, in order to preserve the rapidly diminishing resource of darkness as long as we can. Cities should be covered with vast sunshades, or moved underground to escape the soon to be eternal glare of the sun. Manufacturers of solar power technology, certain to benefit from this tragedy, should be charged a 90% sunfall profits tax, to be used to provide sunscreen, sunglasses and sun hats to those who can’t afford them.

A recent worldwide survey of healthy young people, from birth to age 16, shows that human beings are continuously expanding in the areas of height and weight–again, an undeniable and clearly observable trend. If something is not done to arrest this development, adult human beings will grow into grotesque giants who will be decreasingly adapted to our modern world. Humans will soon be too tall to fit into automobiles, too large to be accommodated by standard clothing and lawn furniture, and too massive to be housed in current domiciles.

Government regulations should stipulate that all new housing be designed to accommodate a vastly larger population. All doorways should be eight feet wide, and twelve feet tall. Floors above ground level should be reinforced and strengthened. Subway seats, cars, and tunnels will have to be doubled or tripled in size. Bathroom scales will have to be manufactured to the most rigorous standards. Restaurant servings will be mandated to provide at least 5000 calories per plate, with related mandates for mega-capacity refrigerators and wide-load bathtubs and showers.

Among long-term trends here in the United States, there has been an unmistakable and steady increase in government agencies and regulation from the beginnings of our republic to the present day. It is clear that if this trend continues, that every aspect, every experience, and every second of a citizen’s life will be dictated, proscribed or controlled by a government agency or regulation. This will result in the total loss of free will, initiative and personal responsibility.

The government should immediately appoint a commission to oversee and regulate the oversight and regulation of the American nation. It would have authority over all authorities, and would thoroughly investigate all government panels of inquiry. In addition, this commission would be charged with taxing government revenues and have the duty to make a full report on any federally-mandated report. Only by the prompt enactment of such a program can the proliferation of such programs be curtailed.

In comparison to these frightening prospects, the fluctuation of world temperatures by a degree or two certainly shrinks to insignificance. But if we all work together, we can leave our children a world they can share and enjoy–though it may well be exceedingly bright, uncomfortably crowded, and overly regulated.