The real question is why industry is sending so many jobs overseas. The answer is that Global Warming is causing the Greenland ice cap to melt, which will shut off the Gulf Stream, which will drastically change the weather patterns of the rust belt – it’s cold now, but will be like Siberia soon. Industry knows this, and is sending the jobs away. The writing is on the wall for the rest of America too. With the Gulf Stream gone, far less moisture will go up the Atlantic Coast. The climate will be colder, too. Tobacco won’t grow in Virginia; cotton in Georgia; or citrus fruits in Florida. Much more moisture will drench the Gulf Coast states. The Texas citrus zone will be too wet, and any trade along the whole coast will be prohibitively expensive. This will strangle the prosperity of inland areas.
Most importantly, the extreme weather along the Gulf Coast – all the torrid energy hurricanes have to dissipate will all go straight into the Gulf – will make drilling for oil virtually impossible. So the major oil companies are furiously trying to extract every last drop while they still can. Likewise for points inland, in Louisiana especially.
The refineries in south Louisiana along the Mississippi in Baton Rouge will be useless too; as will the huge complex at Texas City near Houston. All these chemical and petrochemical facilities are being allowed to slump into total disrepair because the payback on regular maintenance is getting less and less profitable.
Why is industry being so obvious about outsourcing of jobs, in at best tentative economic conditions? Their model of business conditions takes into account the fact that the Maryland sized block of ice that sluffed off of Antarctica two years ago, according to the best scientific models, should not have happened for 10,000 years. So, they fear, the Greenland icecap mishap could just as easily happen much sooner than later. Global competition is so fierce that a calamity of that scale, in the drastic affect it would have upon their American industries, could very well put a company out of business. It’s better to err on the cautious side and move the jobs now while it can be done at a measured pace.
The ironic part is that the error in the Antarctic ice cap model was introduced by the absence of the ozone layer, which allows high energy UV rays to impact Earth from the sun. There is no ozone hole over the north pole, so that error will not happen. However, industry is so paranoid about the whole Freon issue – their $1 trillion taxation without representation upon the civilized world, especially America – that they won’t even acknowledge the ozone layer is a problem at all. Again, they err on the cautious side, keep the lid on the Freon fiasco, and go about their ugly business.