Round and Round We Go!

I listened to the pundits Sunday as they played their game of political chess, I have to say I wasn't impressed. For an administration of elite scholars, they sure seem off in left field most of the time. Like this climate thing they are pushing. Everything is a spin, the facts are skewed, if it snows it's because of the global warming thing. If it doesn't snow it's also because of the global warming thing. Let me interject some common sense.

One of the key arguments this week is because of global warming the United States is seeing record snowfall. You see they claim the rise in temperatures has deposited more moisture in the atmosphere, so by this logic we have more snow. Now the oceans temp would have to increase if this evaporation were to occur, and from my offshore experience it takes a lot of extended periods of heat or cold to make oceans react, thermally. Consequently it takes equal time for it to act in reverse. So if it heated up enough to evaporate, the warmth would be residual, at least for a season. So why are the coast lines receiving snow? The beaches, because of the proximity to the water,(which is slower to cool) rarely get snow. It's like having a electric blanket, yet the beaches along the east coast have been hammered with snowfall. This is not characteristic of normal winter precipitation, and an indicator their argument is full of holes.

I also listen as they reported that 2009 was the second warmest year on record. Personally I'd like to know where? If my memory serves me correctly, and it does, it was unseasonably cool this summer. Not just here in Florida but up north too. Most everyone I talked to this summer didn't get summer like conditions until almost August. We have short memories, but not that short. We had no hurricane season because the oceans that supply the humidity to insight this weather didn't warm enough. I guess they think we'd forget a hurricane free summer season, because we were focused on the over abundance of snow assaulting our country. 49 out of 50 states are looking at these climate people after seeing some form of snow and wondering if they are really serious.

My final point, and one they never bring up, ends this entire argument. The United Nation's own report on climate change tells us, buried deep under a mountain of paper work, that a study showed the reported temperature rise they are worried about, occurred prior to the rise of carbon emissions in the atmosphere. I mean I'm no PHD, but if man made climate change is based on man made carbon emissions, shouldn't the emissions go up prior to the temperature? Really, to affect the weather, it has to happen first. Unless they choose to argue the weather anticipated the rise in carbon emissions and acted on it's own. Either way the argument is moot.

So if I may sum this up, in a nut shell, man made climate change is a load of hooey. If there wasn't a way to economically profit from this man made disaster, (I'm speaking about the made up part), there would be no issue. Follow the money people!

God Bless
Capt. Bill