{"id":233,"date":"2014-03-22T13:49:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-03-22T13:49:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T21:49:44","slug":"what-nice-climate-were-having-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/what-nice-climate-were-having-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What nice climate we&#8217;re having today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/what-nice-climate-were-having-today\/\" data-text=\"What nice climate we&#038;%238217;re having today\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Here in Northern California today it is sunny and in the 70&#8217;s. \u00a0Not trying to brag, just making a point. \u00a0If you live in another part of the country or the world it may be warmer or colder, wetter or drier. \u00a0The weather will change wherever I am or wherever you are. \u00a0It&#8217;s going to happen, only Bond villains and certain Superheroes can do anything about it. \u00a0By that I mean no one can do anything about it. \u00a0Where am I going with this?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where. \u00a0I am a Anthropogenic Global Warming Denier. \u00a0Just call me <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galileo_Galilei\" target=\"_blank\">Galileo Galilei.<\/a> \u00a0No, I did not say simply Global Warming Denier, I added Anthropogenic which means &#8220;induced by man&#8221;. \u00a0In the title and the opening paragraph I used <em>climate<\/em> and <em>weather<\/em> interchangeably when technically they are two different things. \u00a0HOWEVER&#8230;the weather is a microcosm of the climate and they share charactersitics. \u00a0The Climate is a system made up of many smaller weather systems. \u00a0So Climate = big picture; Weather = lots of small pictures that make up the big picture. \u00a0And here are some of the dots I have connected to arrive at my opinion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2014\/03\/21\/ipcc-scientists-knew-data-and-science-inadequacies-contradicted-certainties-presented-to-media-public-and-politicians-but-remained-silent\/#more-105765\" target=\"_blank\">Modeling is useless as a tool to predict weather and therefore climate<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Up until just a few tens of thousands of years ago the North American Continent and much of the Northern Hemisphere was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=north+american+ice+age&amp;rlz=1C1NNVC_enUS477US477&amp;oq=north+american+ice&amp;aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.10298j0j8&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;espv=210&amp;es_sm=93&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">covered with a sheet if ice miles thick.<\/a> \u00a0The climate warmed (without man&#8217;s help) the ice sheets retreated, the earth and it&#8217;s inhabitants adapted, survived and dare I say thrived.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052748703939404574567423917025400\" target=\"_blank\">science is not settled\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The only proposed solutions so far are taxes on carbon emissions (allegedly to reduce the emissions) and then a c<a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/green-science\/carbon-trading.htm\" target=\"_blank\">arbon credit exchange<\/a> which will allow carbon emitters to buy licenses to continue to emit carbon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The single greatest influence on earth&#8217;s climate is that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_sun\" target=\"_blank\">big yellow thing in the sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_236\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=236\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236\" alt=\"IN THE SKY!!  I said big yellow thing IN THE SKY!\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Big-Yellow-Ducks-Tiananmen-Square-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Big-Yellow-Ducks-Tiananmen-Square-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Big-Yellow-Ducks-Tiananmen-Square-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Big-Yellow-Ducks-Tiananmen-Square.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IN THE SKY!! I said big yellow thing IN THE SKY!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_237\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237\" alt=\"That's better.\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sun.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sun.jpg 291w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sun-150x89.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s better.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Not happy with the weather? \u00a0Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;ll change. \u00a0Not happy with the climate? \u00a0Same thing. \u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Things change<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">. \u00a0The earth started out as a hot ball of gas then cooled on it&#8217;s own. \u00a0The dinosaurs were not responsible for their own demise. \u00a0Nature will take it&#8217;s course and as it has been shown the creatures that are capable of adaptation will survive, those incapable of adaptation will die out and become extinct or if a situation devlopes that is impossible to adapt to then it&#8217;s curtains for all. \u00a0Man did not invent the processes &#8211; they have been going on long before we arrived (evolved? sprouted? were dropped off by aliens? whatever.) and they will continue regardless of our continued existence. \u00a0Indeed, if it were possible for mankind to influence the climate by varying carbon emissions then the result of limiting emissions could also catastrophic if the earth were entering, unbeknownst to us, a (natural) cooling period. \u00a0 A reduction of our carbon footprint would exacerbate (if the carbon theory is correct) the cooling perhaps causing an ice age which would have a devastating effect on agriculture and food production possibly leading to global famine and economic collapse. \u00a0So we&#8217;re screwed either way. \u00a0I say let nature take it&#8217;s course. \u00a0And if anyone tells you the solution to any problem is communism and higher taxes, you should mock them mercilessly. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Did I mention that it&#8217;s nice and sunny here today? \u00a0I believe I did<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Here in Northern California today it is sunny and in the 70&#8217;s. \u00a0Not trying to brag, just making a point. \u00a0If you live in another part of the country or the world it may be warmer or colder, wetter or drier. \u00a0The weather will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}