Well, another day, and Erin and I slept in. I slept in because my body hurt… bad. I don’t know what I did yesterday… well, I know exactly what I did last yesterday and that consisted of deconstructing and reconstructing the main entrance to our place. What I hoped would take me a couple of hours finally wound down sometime around 8 p.m. I started working on the door around 1 p.m.
By the time I was done, I was tired, I was hungry, I was sore, I was dirty, and I was cold. Good thing I didn’t really expect to spend a lot of time writing yesterday as the most I did was the blog entry… and that was a struggle.
I woke up this morning feeling like I’d been beaten with a bat. I have to admit, the soreness I experienced this morning is the kind of soreness you want to have, but, at the same time, it is also the kind of soreness that frustrates the living tar out of me. Especially since I couldn’t move, Erin got out of bed, did her thing, and eventually offered to let me continue lie there rather than shower, dress, yadda, and go to class.
Apparently, she tried to get me to play back and I slept hard.
When we did get up, I stumbled into the show and just let the hot water cascade over my sore body. Not really sure what I did to cause the soreness, or the extreme soreness as I am not a lazy person, I just know that it was an interesting experience to go through. My body still hurts, I probably should’ve brought, to work, with some Tylenol, but I will suffer through the aches and take some before bed tonight. Hopefully by tomorrow, I will be ready to tackle things… like writing.
Anyway, after getting out bed I realized something important. I didn’t read, nor prepare, for the dreaded science class today. Nope, not even slightly. We were meant to go home and research evidence that refutes Global Warming. I was the only one who disagreed with global warming, when asked, and then maintained my stance as he delved deeper into what he meant by global warming. Is it man made? Do we need to change our actions/attitudes toward the environment?
This is the deal with AlGore’s Global Warming, the earth warms up and then cools off, it is a cycle thing. No matter what we do, the earth is going to get hotter, and then, very quickly, it is going to get a lot colder. I understood that in advance of the questions being asked. I do not believe that the chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol cans are a significant cause of the alleged warming in the air, nor do I think that AlGore, who has not changed, in 17 years, his argument, is the right person to champion an extremist point of view. And yet, with G.W. showing that he really is an idiot, and AlGore trying hard not to run for President (he would win in a landslide this election), we have him championing the environment.
The outcome to that is we believe, as a people (or children, teenagers, new college students, and the insanely gullible believe) that we are screwing up the earth and making it inhospitable.
AlGore, by the way, invented the internet back in the 1960’s… oh wait, in the 90’s… sorry, I keep forgetting how old he is and when the internet was actually invented and by whom and for what.
Global Warming is a natural phenomenon.
Think about this: In the 1980’s we discovered a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. That hole, according to scientists, was (most likely) caused by our constant and persistent use of aerosol sprays. The outcome, we were sending chemicals in the air that was destroying our atmosphere and, as a result, destroying the protective atmospheric layer ultimately causing more instances of cancers caused by exposure to sunlight. We were, literally, dooming coming generations as a result of our stupidity.
In the 1990’s, scientists, upon further looking and researching and Antarctic polar cap drilling, discovered that the hole in the ozone layer had always existed and, over time, grew and shrank. In the 2000’s, scientists track the size of the hole which can, in some years, cover large parts of South America, but, in other years, gets relatively small.
By this time, according the scientists in the 80’s, we should be suffering from specific sun related cancer issues. However, outside of improvements to SPF and sunblock, the changes in the quality of sunlight and the likelihood of you getting melanoma are relatively minimal. Though, spending a ton of time in the sun is a bad thing… but that was true before the 80’s.
What this doesn’t explain, though, is how we get knee-jerk reactions from bad science. Get an extremist scientist yelling their gobbledygook at people and the outcome is, quite literally, people freaking out. They get worried, Hollywood jumps on the bandwagon, and the outcome is about the equivalent of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911. You sure have a lot of people’s opinions about a bad president, but little of it rotates in the realm of fact and Moore, admittedly, spent a lot of time trying to get soundbites that were negative rather than searching for a convenient truth.
Incidentally, AlGore’s latest attempt to incide people, titled: An Inconvenient Truth.
What we know is that the earth both warms, drastically, and cools drastically. The Army War College ran a scenario where they tested this hypothesis and then published it. The outcome, in Hollywood, the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, where massive storms turned into another ice age.
Guess what happens after you get extreme warming? Oh, wait! Let me guess…. Is the answer, rapid extreme cooling?
I win.
Here’s the kicker, as long as any form of beast has lived on the earth, they have produced greenhouse gasses. Methane is a greenhouse gas. Methane is produced by carbon based life forms. Cows and people are carbon based life forms.
I don’t doubt that the earth is warming up. I don’t doubt that crazy weather is a part of the warming trends. I don’t doubt that this isn’t scare. And I don’t doubt that we shouldn’t pay attention to it and do what we can.
I do doubt that science, today, has enough data or experience or heads out of bottoms to make the educated decisions or suggestions that will make sense in the long run. Rather, I think that AlGore and much of the vocal scientists don’t know the first thing of what they are talking about. They are creating knee-jerk theories that are not supportable. And they choose to spout those theories in any way that will give them money and support by the public-at-large. Scare enough people and you get what you want. Isn’t that what G.W. has effectively done since 9-11-01?
My last thought: Gasoline was a byproduct of the distillation process for kerosene. Back in the day, before people knew what it was good for, they dumped gas in a pit and lit a match. Big fire. The outcome, a lot of years of destruction for a waste product (in copper mining gold and silver are byproducts)… and then someone found a use and lots of people have become millionaires, billionaires, and whole dynasties exist as a result.
CO2 is a byproduct of fuel consumption. We will find a use for it, sooner or later. Our money, our time, and our discussion is better spent on finding a use for a waste product than it is in finding a way to eliminate something that isn’t even the dominate reason for global warming, and doesn’t equate to a large enough portion of what is in the air to substantiate the argument.
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