Wouldn’t be difficult, given that its cost is nil.
Even if there were a solid basis for the fright, people are getting wrapped around the axle over what would at worst be a few degrees of added warmth. As if that wouldn’t be a thing to celebrate. It’s surreal. It’s hyperneurotic. It’s crazy on wheels.
In under a century, we’ve gone from “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” to “Fear everything!”. There are hobgoblins in the closet, and monsters under the bed. Sheesh.
People are moving from the rust belt to the sun belt because of the sun. Warmer is increasing property values now that we’ve deployed air conditioning.
All hail and praise Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning. Hallowed be his name! Every southern town should have a statue of him in the public square. Life was possible here before air conditioning, but life is much better with it.
Actually, Carrier’s invention was the downfall of the Republic. It made the swampy hell-hole of our nation’s capital habitable.
That the issue even exists proves the adults have left the room.
Water cap and trade!
Don’t give the dunderheads under the dome in Sac-a-tomato any ideas. “cap and trade” applied to water might be very appealing to some of them with the current situation.
(Note: the “sub” tag doesn’t seem to work.) The CO2 alarmists keep neglecting that “global warming” (whatever happened to the “global cooling crisis”?) has a number of sources. I suspect that the CO2 alarmists latch onto fossil fuel burning as THE cause of warming because methane release from natural sources can’t be targeted as well. “Stop coal mining. Stop oil pumping. Get out of your cars.” (Haven’t heard strong calls against natural gas yet, but…) And we are in the first stages of CO2 mining to create useful fuels from atmospheric CO2 and sun power. To look at the commitment of the CO2 alarmists, see how many of them have planted green plants on the roofs of their home. See how many cars there are in their driveways. See how many of them tele-travel to their conferences. Why is it I get the idea that it’s “do as I say, not as I do”?
This comment may start sounding like a derail, but bear with me.
On another forum, someone was asking what the proper classification for Hurricane Patricia (which is, by the way, the strongest tropical storm ever recorded) was. The issue is that there is no category after 5. But following the pattern for categories 1-4 in terms of wind speed, it works out that Patricia is at the upper end of category 7.
Incidentally, Patricia’s wind speeds are in the region of wind speed found in F3 tornadoes.
So, let’s see: Mexico is currently being battered by a medium-strength tornado the size of a medium-sized US state. But the climate isn’t changing. RRiigghht. Never mind, carry on taking two tons of iron with you to buy cigarettes.
The climate is always changing. The questions are, do we have anything to do with it, and if so, is it a bad thing?
The answer to the first is no. We don’t even significantly affect global CO2 levels, much less global temperatures.
“The extremely active season of 1961 brought Typhoon Nancy to Japan with extensive damage and a measured top sustained wind speed of 215 mph. Super Typhoon Violet of that same year produced 205 mph sustained wind, and Typhoon Ida in 1958 saw sustained winds of 200 mph.”
And, even if one were to dismiss the above, the question would remain, is it a bad thing?
No. Warm is better than cold. 1000 ppm CO2 is better for life than 300 ppm CO2. Storm fronts depend on temperature differentials, not absolute levels, and the AGW hypothesis entails lower meridional temperature differentials.
The AGW merchants are in the business of selling fear. But, only children are frightened by monsters lurking under the bed.
Wouldn’t be difficult, given that its cost is nil.
Even if there were a solid basis for the fright, people are getting wrapped around the axle over what would at worst be a few degrees of added warmth. As if that wouldn’t be a thing to celebrate. It’s surreal. It’s hyperneurotic. It’s crazy on wheels.
In under a century, we’ve gone from “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” to “Fear everything!”. There are hobgoblins in the closet, and monsters under the bed. Sheesh.
People are moving from the rust belt to the sun belt because of the sun. Warmer is increasing property values now that we’ve deployed air conditioning.
All hail and praise Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning. Hallowed be his name! Every southern town should have a statue of him in the public square. Life was possible here before air conditioning, but life is much better with it.
Actually, Carrier’s invention was the downfall of the Republic. It made the swampy hell-hole of our nation’s capital habitable.
That the issue even exists proves the adults have left the room.
Water cap and trade!
Don’t give the dunderheads under the dome in Sac-a-tomato any ideas. “cap and trade” applied to water might be very appealing to some of them with the current situation.
(Note: the “sub” tag doesn’t seem to work.) The CO2 alarmists keep neglecting that “global warming” (whatever happened to the “global cooling crisis”?) has a number of sources. I suspect that the CO2 alarmists latch onto fossil fuel burning as THE cause of warming because methane release from natural sources can’t be targeted as well. “Stop coal mining. Stop oil pumping. Get out of your cars.” (Haven’t heard strong calls against natural gas yet, but…) And we are in the first stages of CO2 mining to create useful fuels from atmospheric CO2 and sun power. To look at the commitment of the CO2 alarmists, see how many of them have planted green plants on the roofs of their home. See how many cars there are in their driveways. See how many of them tele-travel to their conferences. Why is it I get the idea that it’s “do as I say, not as I do”?
This comment may start sounding like a derail, but bear with me.
On another forum, someone was asking what the proper classification for Hurricane Patricia (which is, by the way, the strongest tropical storm ever recorded) was. The issue is that there is no category after 5. But following the pattern for categories 1-4 in terms of wind speed, it works out that Patricia is at the upper end of category 7.
Incidentally, Patricia’s wind speeds are in the region of wind speed found in F3 tornadoes.
So, let’s see: Mexico is currently being battered by a medium-strength tornado the size of a medium-sized US state. But the climate isn’t changing. RRiigghht. Never mind, carry on taking two tons of iron with you to buy cigarettes.
The climate is always changing. The questions are, do we have anything to do with it, and if so, is it a bad thing?
The answer to the first is no. We don’t even significantly affect global CO2 levels, much less global temperatures.
But, even if one were inclined to believe otherwise, there have been stronger storms:
“The extremely active season of 1961 brought Typhoon Nancy to Japan with extensive damage and a measured top sustained wind speed of 215 mph. Super Typhoon Violet of that same year produced 205 mph sustained wind, and Typhoon Ida in 1958 saw sustained winds of 200 mph.”
And, this at a time when hurricane incidence worldwide is historically low.
And, even if one were to dismiss the above, the question would remain, is it a bad thing?
No. Warm is better than cold. 1000 ppm CO2 is better for life than 300 ppm CO2. Storm fronts depend on temperature differentials, not absolute levels, and the AGW hypothesis entails lower meridional temperature differentials.
The AGW merchants are in the business of selling fear. But, only children are frightened by monsters lurking under the bed.