Has anybody besides me noticed that they seem to sweat a lot more than when they were younger? (that is assuming that anybody still goes outside long enough to really feel the temps.) I blame it on GLOBAL WARMING! That dire and evil term that represents the efforts of the rich industrialists and corporate interests to subjugate the poor downtrodden masses! The destruction of the entire world is coming, glaciers are melting, whales are dieing and my wife is premenopausal . Oh Lord save me, the world will soon be at an end! I must find a way to save the world, save mankind and make a ton of money from this! I will have to lie and perjure myself repeatedly in the attempt to get "THE WORD" across! I will have to form foundations and forums, I will have to give political speeches and withhold my support from certain politicians and I will have to obfuscate and hide pertinent facts and other information from the public! I may be forced to accept the Nobel peace prize of $1,000,000 and the global recognition, which I really don't want!
In the early 1900's the the precursors to the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration "N.O.A.A.", began to gather together the heretofore independent record keeping of world-wide weather events and began to chart the long term maximums and minimums over time.
My research shows that in the 60's NOAA changed the approved design of it's weather stations slightly, the previous design required the use of a "Milk"white paint . The change was to a white enamel. A small yet significant change, as the temperature recorded by the internal charting thermometers began to over time, average out to show an increase of aproximately 1 1/2 degrees F. (the ability of this new paint over the previous, to transmit thermal radiation [heat] had been increased by this amount). This supposed temperature increase was documented and reported without adjustment for the change in the recording conditions.
There were additional changes from recording practices of previous years. Weather stations were located on top of large flat roofed buildings (re: heat collectors and reflectors), adjacent to large black-topped parking areas and airport runways and in areas of still air where the breezes previously flowed unimpeded. Now this might seem insignificant in terms of GLOBAL reporting but most of our international information has come from developed countries (who else would have the time or ability to care?) who have purposefuly copied our methodology in order to be compairable and acceptable in their results.
I remember being taught in elementary school (a long time ago when public education still tried to educate and create the ability in people to think on their own!), of the previous ice ages. There has been a phenomena of (historically) recent times (approximately extending from the late 1700's to the 1930's, with the maximum average lows in the late 1920's into the 1930's) was called the Mini-Ice Age. This was an event that has been experienced in part, in living memory ( I have interviewed numerous people who were alive at this time and confirmed the effects reported, i.e. increased amounts of snowfall, rainfall and lower temperatures as compaired to today.) This mini-ice age has created numerous historically recorded effects, crop failures due to cold, with associated famines (and yes, WARS), extinctions of animals and species, migrations (incluing human), glaciation and flood events.
At the time, I remember thinking about how good it was to live today and how much better it would be in the future and what interisting changes that there might be. My fascination has led me to notice such extreme finds as mammoths that have been found frozen in ice with GREEN GRASS in their stomachs and other such oddities. I have traveled to and about Alaska and seen land that is riseing from beneeth the ocean after being compressed under galciers, Ice bergs being calved in Glacier Bay and the dissapearence of glaciers from such easily accessable locations as The Grand Tetons, the Wind River Range and Glacier National Park. How much of this is the result of a period of natural cooling followed by a time of natural warming? (a natural cycle?).
This is definate proof to me of the previous existanece and end of a MINI-ICE AGE and of present natural and cyclic Global Warming! I do not ignore the effects that humanity has had from the dawn of civilization (cultivation of food, both plant and animal. The release of carbon and the changes in the patterns of plant life.) as probably having a minor effect on our climate.( Our irresponsible actions may have inadverdantly prevented a MAJOR Global Galciation event!)
Irreguardless of the actions of (seemingly or self-pronouncing) well meaning do-gooders, both historical and prehistorical evidence is in favor of cyclic temperature swings! How can I dare say this in the face of all the facts and rhetoric that have been expounded and propounded in recent years? By taking an honest look at those self same facts without all the rhetoric and obfuscation present.
Many are as I have previously stated. Tree rings (growth rings show favorable times of growth), Ice cores ( show amounts and types of precipitation), erosion of land features ( types of soil and patterns of erosion and deposition) and locations of and patterns of, Human habitation and abandonment are among others that should be considered.
There have been previous times of elevated average temperatures. Most recently there is what is known as "The Medieval Warm Period" which peaked at about 1450 and lasted for over a hundred years! (can you say Global Warming without cars and power plants?) at a time of low human population or impact!
At present, our scientists who study the other planets (not the Earth) and the nearest star (yes, we live adjacent to a giant thermonuclear bomb which could explode and contaminate the Earth!) are finding that all of the planets have recently began increasing in surface temperature (re: warming)! Should we have our electric cars in space? Are we now polluting the universe?
It seems to me that GLOBAL WARMING is cyclic and natural and not just restricted to our planet.
That we, as the most vigorously persistant, large life-form on our planet, have and will continue to have, an effect on the weather of that planet, from prehistoric times, on into the future!
If we continue to allow and support extremeist ideaologies to dominate and control our politics, our policies, our choices and the way that live. To repeated give insane sums of money, adoration and control to people who have a demonstrated disreguard for truth and responsibility to their fellow man and to this planet for their own personal gain, we are just asking for this behavior to continue and that we will fall under their sway to the point that we will talk ourselves out of even trying to think on our own.
(A plethora of good information is available on the internet concerning both sides of the argument. I would hope that people will take time to investigate on their own before they draw a conclusion that could result in irrepairable change. I do caution people to moderation in all things so as not to result in depletion of resources!)
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