Now they're saying that this could be the coldest US winter in 25 years! Must be that global warming thing, the one where the average temps have not risen in 10 years, or the one where the weather is related to the sun spots, or lack thereof, or the cycle before when the earth was warmer than it is now, back when the dinosaurs were driving really big SUVs around, chasing down their dinners at the local fast food places that filled them with delicious fatty foods, making them extinct.
When people speak about Australia and the Aborigines, one thing stands out. The experts have said that the Aborigines walked to Australia before the water rose enough to create an ocean between Australia and the rest of the world. That was over 30,000 or 60,000 years ago, which also means the ice was melting way back then, too. Once again, the Aborigines must have been driving those big SUV's which melted all that ice back then.
Of course, there have been min-ice ages along the way, and who knows, maybe the government will now start warning people about the impending ice age as they did back in the mid-seventies. Oh, and of course there was the famous Dr. Barry Commoner who predicted back in the 60s that we'd all starve to death by now according to his scientific assessment.
I remember when Mt. St. Helen's erupted. All the experts said it would be decades before the area around the mountain would begin to recover. Lo and behold, the very next spring what popped up through the volcanic ash? Flowers! The rebirth began in less than 6 months!
When Saddam blew all the oil wells in Kuwait and parts of Iraq, the experts said it would take up to two or three years to put all the fires out and the environmental result would be a disaster. What happened? The last fire was put out within 6 months, and the impact was minimal. And these people are looked at as experts?
Scientists have said that the moon used to be very close to the earth millions of years ago, and it is moving away at about .5 an inch a year. The farther it moves from the earth, the more the earth will wobble on its axis. Maybe it already is, at least to the point where areas that are hot sometimes are cold other times, and vice versa, depending on the movement of the axis. If that is impacting our weather, which it could, man can do nothing about it. Cap and Trade will do nothing more than what it has done in Europe... Making the big companies richer because they can afford to buy a lot of polluting credits for resale later at a much higher price to the smaller companies. Pollution is worse in Europe than it was before Cap and Trade, and will continue that way because it solves no problems.
Why am I talking about the weather and global warming? Because I feel like it. When one reaches their elder years, global warming sounds like a nice scenario. Too bad it won't happen in my lifetime. Not as long as mother nature controls things and makes it cold during the winters. Will winters return to the way they used to be when I grew up? I don't know... but then, neither does anyone else. All they can do is speculate.
