Is it hot in here or is it just me?
I see the recent headlines, all saying something like GLOBAL WARMING REAL, A NEW BUNCH OF SCIENTISTS SAY.
Is this really news? It's like some university research lab announcing, GRAVITY STILL WORKING SWELL.
I was just out in the parking lot, and man, it's a hot one, a scorcher, a real doozy, and it's only June.
That was a joke, so don't respond by telling me that I don't know the difference between weather and climate.
What's interesting to me is that even right-wing nutbars, the sorts of people who believe that more pollution will toughen up the species, can agree that the earth is getting warmer. They just don't believe that people have anything to do with it.
The earth is a big place, they argue, really huge. And compared to the Earth, human beings are really tiny. (It's true. You can look it up. People are small.) So, they say, human beings have no effect on anything global. Cow flatulence, on the other hand, is throwing the whole planet out of whack.
The fact that the global warming trend has spiked in the last 100 years, the warming skeptics say, is nothing more than a statistical anomaly. And all those glaciers falling apart in Antarctica? Vandal penguins.
Call me crazy, but I think close to 7 billion people moving around the world, trying to get to work in the morning may be adding a little something to the mix.
Is this really news? It's like some university research lab announcing, GRAVITY STILL WORKING SWELL.
I was just out in the parking lot, and man, it's a hot one, a scorcher, a real doozy, and it's only June.
That was a joke, so don't respond by telling me that I don't know the difference between weather and climate.
What's interesting to me is that even right-wing nutbars, the sorts of people who believe that more pollution will toughen up the species, can agree that the earth is getting warmer. They just don't believe that people have anything to do with it.
The earth is a big place, they argue, really huge. And compared to the Earth, human beings are really tiny. (It's true. You can look it up. People are small.) So, they say, human beings have no effect on anything global. Cow flatulence, on the other hand, is throwing the whole planet out of whack.
The fact that the global warming trend has spiked in the last 100 years, the warming skeptics say, is nothing more than a statistical anomaly. And all those glaciers falling apart in Antarctica? Vandal penguins.
Call me crazy, but I think close to 7 billion people moving around the world, trying to get to work in the morning may be adding a little something to the mix.
posted by Michael Riley at 11:13 AM
4 Comments:
it was just as hot in june when i was a kid 40 yrs ago, except then we had no a/c in our home or car or school ..which we went to full days (not half day like here for last week school) until last week in june..so i think it is cooler now! (even with my menopause hot flashes)!
maybe the sun is burning a little hotter then before? Better tell those volcanos to stop spewing all that dust and ash. Wait a minute I have some bottle caps down in the cellar.
In the 1970s, climatologists stated emphatically that the planet was cooling, and that we would be in real danger of a freeze-over in the near future. Well. It appears that climate, like most other natural things, has a way of working itself out.
like they say.."you can't fool Mother nature"...maybe she's menopausal like me and just having hotflashes!
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