by Austin Cooper

Created on: July 15, 2009   Last Updated: July 16, 2009

It's a wonder why global warming has advanced from a debatable environmental issue into a worldwide call for conscientious yet consequential change.

While the likes of Hillary Clinton worry about a small temperature increase over a large amount of time, they risk a more devastating fate. Most of the world's nuclear nations greet the message with a "Here here!" OK, I'll shed a tear, but they themselves are capable of worse destruction. In fact, some including North Korea and Iran remain poised to inflict a very large temperature increase over a very short amount of time.

During an overseas meeting this past week, President Obama stated that both Russia and the United States are "committed to leaving behind the suspicion and rivalry of the past." Though this proposal might be taken seriously between nations run by credible men, the leaders of both are found lacking in this respect.

Needless to say, the history of bi-lateral arms reduction between the two countries has never been successful.

Unlike our president, Russian leaders tend not to be weak or ignorant. Indeed, Prime Minister Putin's feats of superhuman strength and his country's many years of skillful territorial expansion attest to this claim. (And, to those who thought we had it bad: our media's gushing over Barack's beach body or, in my opinion, lack there of fails to overwhelm the Russian media's gushing over Putin's pectorals. So be reasonably grateful!)

It's become alarming as to why President Obama puts so much faith in a country run by a former KGB agent. He states, Our conflicting notions of national security made previous nuclear arms reductions difficult, but our shared concern over the threat of global warming has brought us together. In other words, Little things like our countries' survival we've always disagreed on, but if we all die, heck with it, at least the earth will live on!

Can one truly believe that Vladimir Putin, the bare-fisted brick crusher, would honestly commit to reducing his nuclear arsenal because Barack Obama, the Almighty fly crusher, offered a wussy fist pound and told him to do so? Sure, and the climate-conscious Adolf Hitler stopped killing the Jews because some considered Hydrogen Cyanide a greenhouse gas.

Later in the week at the G8 Summit, Mr. Obama urged both developed and developing countries to embrace his anti-development reform meant to curb, you guessed it, climate change. This occurred, naturally, after he confided in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta that he enjoyed the warm weather of the normally cold country.

The above illustrations lead me to conclude that: If this were all a joke, it'd be funny. For now, the world may be laughing, but soon Americans may be crying. In as little as thirty-three minutes a nuclear tipped warhead could strike American territory. And in as little as a few days our economy and entire way of life could forever be destroyed.

This is the world we live in a world where nuclear incineration is worse than a liberals' climate inclination. And unlike global warming (which is actually quite enjoyable with tea on the rocks and sun block), the threats we now face are infinitely more serious.

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