Blogger Action Day

OK this is a rant, plain and simple. IT IS MIGHTY DIFFICULT to convince me of the assertions of the global warming crowd when I'm freezing cold and we've had a record rainy year, as the two main assertions they hammer on are the following:

"The average temperature of the earth will get 4-6 degrees hotter unless we all stop emitting carbon immediately (what, stop breathing too? We're animals. We can't emit ZERO CARBON. It is physically impossible.)."

"We will run out of fresh water (three days of sun this month, soggy, saturated soil even during the summer, and you're telling me to believe your computer model rather than my eyes? Dream on. We have wet years and dry years.)."

An awful lot of local problems could be solved locally by replanting mangrove swamps to buffer against tsunamis and storms (and breed depleted wild fish stocks), replanting forests to buffer dry years so that the trees draw up water from the ground, actually helping the poor instead of watching them die to relieve "excess population", not drinking anything from a can( soda companies drain aquifers and pollute ground water to make their products), etc. Instead people blame those local effects on global warming as measured on thermometers mostly located in cities, which have been surrounded by concrete and steel over the past 150 years, and experienced increases in temperature like the bank thermometer over the parking lot, and do nothing to help local people solve local problems. It is easier to blame global warming, and the excessive Western lifestyle, and oil companies, and corporations and CEOs, than it is to say "But if we just did this simple thing, we could store our own purified water, and replant the forests to shade us and supply our food and heat, and..." Too simple. Not complex or expensive or sacrificial or technologically advanced. Not enough. Despair must rule the day. The earth must be drying out, even if we are knee-deep in mud. The earth must be warming, even if we are cold earlier this year, and last. Crazy.

Conserve resources? Learn to live without driving in cities, and only use indoor climate control as necessary? Absolutely. Despair over a computer model generated by someone who profits directly from driving you to give him money? Naah. Look it up in the real journals. Get a dictionary. Look up the statistical methods in Wikipedia or Wolfram's website. Stretch those brain cells. Relax when you realize that biased information from selected sources generated by people whose only career future is in generating fear might not be the most reliable in the world. If you look at the real journals, the fear mongering is strong in the news section at the front. If you go to the back, to the meaty articles, and dig into them, you'll find that the best of the models cannot match the past very well unless the real data is "smoothed" to match the model. Hmmm. And most historical temperatures were measured in cities. And accurate thermometers are only 150 years old. Relax. Grow your food and can and store it, turn the lights down and get out your snuggly blanket to save energy, but relax. If they can't predict the weather tomorrow, how will they predict the climate 50 years from now, eh? If you're totally confident that these models are correct, please move to TN (our climate has changed frequently for a long, long time) and observe reality. Thanks.