This is my first adventure into blogging. I have a lot to say about life in general and the common good in particular, and eventually I predict this blog will become just as famous as, say, Denis Leary's.
Today is a snow day. Snow days have happened very frequently here in NJ this year. Due to global warming. Sounds contradictory doesn't it? Many ninnycottonheads seem to think that because it is cold in the winter, there is no such thing as global warming! Even some very famous politicians and celebrities think this.
Well listen, global warming has occurred many times over in the course of earth's history. And it will occur again in the future. The proper name for this is "interglacial warming". We have ice ages and then we have warm periods in between. Alligators have lived at the north pole in times past! Cave men suffered through glacial winters when half of the USA was covered in ice!
So, guess what? We are in one of those interglacial warm periods right now!
Scientists know this. Sarah Palin does not. The problem with this is that CO2 <and this blog does not include a subscript button> levels rise naturally during these warm periods. But people make it worse due to things like BURNING fuels. BURNING anywhere produces CO2, and since there are so many people burning so many things to get around and keep warm and watch tv, too much of that carbon dioxide is in the air.
Whether it will harm us or not is yet to be seen, although one prominent politician who now is a very tan leader, once said that we breathe CO2 every day, so it must be harmless! Because I teach science and am a big proponent of evidence, I suggest we try to prove his theory,. We could maybe put him in a room with only CO2 for say, a few hours, and see how he fares.
One truism is that the warmer the air, the more water it can hold. This is what may be causing the abundance of rain and snow we are experiencing in the last couple years, which has lead to flooding in many areas of the world. <yes Virgina, there are other places in the world that people live besides the Southern USA>
The bottom line here is that global warming is going to cause us some problems. Many people here in NJ have had to make an unexpected expenditure this winter to buy a snow blower! and we ain't seen nothing yet....there really is more to come.......
