Let's focus

I am sitting here in the American southwest with the sun shining outside and the threat of a sever-ish winter storm on the horizon.

I am, of course, worried about global warming, not because it is happening (it is not), but because it leads focus in the wrong direction. The globe is and has been cooling for the past ten years, and likely will continue cooling for sometime to come, maybe for a very longtime to come.

But. And this maybe is an important "but," there is a lot of money to be made out of global warming and a lot of money has been made out of it. I think it was Goebbels (I could be mistaken) who said the bigger the lie the easier it is to believe.

Warming happens. It is part of cycle. You see it almost annually. Year A is warmer (cooler) than year B. Decade B was warmer than decade. But the global warming that seems to bring forth hysteria is happening only as part of a cycle. Some years the planet is warmer than in some other years. Right now, the planet is in a cooling cycle.

So-called global warming is being blamed on greenhouse gases, primarily on human produced carbon dioxide, which is supposed to reflect the earth's heat and sooner of later is going to turn us all into cinders. The curious thing about this is that the earth has held higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and it hasn't melted yet. In fact some of those periods were cool periods.

There are many atmospheric gases and the most common is water (vapor) which you see in clouds almost daily. Without those rain clouds our planet would indeed be in sad shape. We need the rainfall.

Curiously — and many seem to forget this — carbon dioxide, a common gas — is on the things than keep the planet going. We and all other breathing creature exhale carbon dioxide at every breath. All things dying exude carbon dioxide. And, leaving out the sky above us that does indeed hold carbon dioxide, the oceans are the largest reservoirs of that oh-so-common gas. We cannot survive without. High amounts of carbon dioxide ensure good crops, even bumper crops, and while plants are using carbon dioxide grow and mature, they are exuding oxygen.

It's kind of a cycle: a life cycle.

When the earth gets much colder than it is now, which could happen quite soon, there will be fewer plants growing, maturing, dying, and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and taking it in and converting it back into oxygen and carbon. It is likely that there will be less land available — on a world scale — for growing crops.

It is a pity that we — human beings — are so gullible as to preach that the great god global warming, being fed human-caused carbon dioxide, is going to turn us all into cinders.

Frankly I think we should just ignore that myth, but get ready for what will happen.

It's going to get cold.

See: iceagenow.com
co2science.org
icecap.us