Monday, January 12, 2015

Climate Common Sense

Beginning, middle, and end; those are what we’re told stories are supposed to have. We need to know what happened in the past (where we started), what’s happening now (here in the middle), and that there is a conclusion coming (the end.) If these things are missing from a story, we become disoriented as readers and – well – it’s not a story. It’s a sketch, or some other odd writing exercise with no purpose other than for the writer to practice putting ink on paper.
I always thought one of the things that made humans special was an awareness of time/history/the past (how much do dogs even THINK about time travel?) Maybe that’s WHY we have a need to see cause and effect. AND why, if these aren’t readily apparent to us, we try to figure out the answer to what the cause and effect are. Sometimes we even MAKE THINGS UP so we can feel like we understand it (and are in control.)
Unfortunately, we live in a time where people think there’s only HERE & NOW, and can’t interpret how we got here (because they don’t know where we’ve been.) It’s hard to judge cause and effect if you have no past to study. If all you are aware of is that it feels warmer (or colder) this year than last year (or heck, last month), it’s really hard to understand that there are natural cycles occurring.
Climate doesn’t stay static (stationary) – it’s dynamic. Over the time that there’s been an Earth, how many “climate changes” have there been? How many warmings? How many ice ages? I don’t know the answer to this, but my COMMON SENSE helps me to remember that there have been several, and that we HUMAN BEINGS have had nothing to do with causing them. So, why would anyone think that climate change is something new?
COMMON SENSE would lead you to believe that if something has been going on for thousands (or millions) of years before we could have an impact on them, MAYBE WE’RE NOT CAUSING THEM.
It was warmer in the Middle Ages than it is now. How? Were there more SUV’s back then?
It was warming on Mars at the same time (20 years ago?) that it was warming here (when it used to be called Global Warming, as opposed to the 1970’s, when they thought we were headed for another Ice Age.) How can that be, unless there’s something impacting both planets (the SUN, maybe.)
A few years back, it was revealed that the climate alarmists were actually HIDING DATA that didn’t match their theories, and BLOCKING discussion and publication of conflicting viewpoints. That is NOT what REAL SCIENTISTS do. And yet, the carbon demonization movement rolls on and takes up more and more of our economies. There are people in this movement who won’t be happy until they can regulate how many times you and I exhale (carbon dioxide.) Or stop our cows from flatulating (expelling other greenhouse gases.)
While trying to reduce carbon footprints, have they figured out how to maintain the forests (those things made of trees that need carbon to live), or do they think we need fewer of those, too?
Does this sound sane? What does your COMMON SENSE tell you?
This is not the hottest of times. It is not the coolest of times (sorry for the paraphrasing, Mr. Dickens.) It was both colder and warmer at other times. Just because a little chicken (several little chickens) who wish they were bigger have declared that doom is at hand and are having a pecking party about it doesn’t make it so. Listen to your common sense.
Just saying…
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