"The taxes are still too high. The winters are still too long. But Minnesota continues to put out record crops."
This week, I cashed out every security I have. No more retirement savings. Then I maxed out every credit card I have to borrow money. No more inheritance for the kiddos. I have set up a budget to spend it all in the next twelve years. It is going to be one heck of a party!
Some might think I have taken leave of my senses. But I have not. I have found a much younger (and wiser) financial adviser. She went to Boston College, graduated cum laude with a degree in economics and something else, and is now serving in the US Congress. Good creds, right? Yes, it is AOC I am talking about, and she said we only have twelve more years to live - before we are burned up by global warming.
In fact, it is so bad, we are almost out of water here in Minnesota. Wait - maybe not. The greatest of lakes, Superior, is approaching record levels for water. And water keeps falling from the sky. How so? Last April, we had the most snow of any April on record. This year, February has smashed the previous record by 10 inches! And more snow is on the way for tomorrow. Meanwhile, my driveway looks like the Grand Canyon.
Because of our abundant moisture as well as good farming methods, we continue to knock it out of the park with our yields of corn and beans. Minnesota is one of those grocers who feeds not only its citizens, but feeds the part of the world. We raise so much grain, we are able to feed our livestock and poultry at such good prices and abundance, we remain a world leader in pork and poultry. Even though ALGORE said a few years ago the Midwest would soon resemble the Sahara Desert, it is looking like more the Garden of Eden instead.
Some might say, "Okay - that is Minnesota. What about the agriculture valleys in California? Where most of our produce is grown?" Good question. Today the Weather Channel was talking about this thing called an "atmospheric river". So much moisture is streaming (via the upper atmosphere) towards the west coast, California might get TEN FEET of snow in the Sierra Nevada Range - alone. If they can't bottle that for irrigation this summer, there is something sadly wrong with the Golden State.
I know, I know. The "greenies" will tell us this is like the Rapture before the Tribulation. "Just wait!", they will tell us - "Hell on Earth is coming!" (...yawn...) Okay, then bring it on. As for me, I HAVE NOT cashed out everything. I HAVE NOT maxed out my credit cards. I am enjoying the good life in these United States.
The taxes are still too high. The winters are still too long. But Minnesota continues to put out record crops. Global warming? Okay Representative Drazcowski - with permission, I will use your term. What we have been seeing with out weather is "Glo-Bull Warming". Plain and simple - that is all it is.
MN truly is the Garden of Eden!
ReplyDeleteStill believe that Global Warming is a disaster and already upon us? Really? Have you looked out the window? I've got 5' piles of global warming beside my driveway! The ONLY evidence of a future climate catastrophe caused by fossil fuels is the computer models, and they have been proven wildly wrong! End of story.
ReplyDeleteThe barrage of lies from the deniers is so constant, it creates a kind of noise that can hollow out people's memories. CO2 emissions are only one small part of the equation and you are correct that stopping all CO2 released from now on would not make a difference. We are past the point of no return. Time to build the dikes, plant new crops in new areas, upgrade the AF in Alaska (I want claim to Polar routes), cover the SW in solar (God gave us an unlimited energy source and no one will be able to live there) and close our borders as migration will become cause of wars.
ReplyDeleteReally? If you are going to trust the "climate scientists" then you really have to trust the climate scientists. It isn't enough that actual data proves the models horribly, horribly wrong and that the there is no such problem on the horizon. You have to ask those unreliable models what we CAN do to prevent their predicted apocalypse. The answer they give is that, if the whole planet decided to quit burning fossil fuels today, the world would be 1/2 a degree less warm, 100 years from now, or somewhere around 3 degrees instead of 3.5-- worst case scenario.
ReplyDeleteThe "barrage of lies" consists of citing a)real data, b)failed predictions, c) simple math and physics, and d) the actual outputs from the models themselves, showing that our "solution" simply doesn't work. That it is more expensive than "doing nothing," to which it is almost equivalent, should be the kicker.
Us "deniers" prefer to look at real data, rather than fatally flawed computer models. We have no way of predicting the future, and certainly not by those vaunted models. If we did forecast by extending real current temperature trends, we would find somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5 degrees of entirely natural warming over 100 years. Remember "snow will be a thing of the past"? Look outside.
I am reminded, having just flown back from Cancun, that the average temperature here while I was gone was something like 0, and the average there was something like 80. Now, which of those two places will become uninhabitable if the temperature rises by 2 degrees?
Upon rereading, I think I Recognize what I have found to Be a fundamental problem, one that I have fumed about for many months. That is, this massive hoax has been so successful that we no longer question the premise that man-made CO2 is creating a climate apocalypse. We simply assume that to be true and that therefore anything which reduces the production of man-made CO2 MUST be done, regardless of cost or practicality or even effectiveness. For example, some people have looked at the life cycle CO2 "Savings" of a windmill and found That it is essentially zero. And considering that we have to build a fossil fuel power plant as backup for the two-thirds of the time the wind isn't blowing, we are paying double for a CO2 reduction that we simply are not getting. Something for nothing, but we are on the wrong end of the transaction. There are so many superior energy technologies out there, some of them producing less CO2 if you care, that having government mandate wind and solar is just short of a crime against humanity. Call it a crime against common sense.
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