posted December 1, 2008
Yo, Greenies! Where's that global warming now?
Here it is only the first day of December and we've had snow flurries at least three times in the last four to six weeks. The first day of December and we have local schools closing due to snow, up to two inches of snow forecast up on the mountains we can see, and snow on windshields down here in the ditch. This, in the Sunny South, where we know it's summertime when we get hot water from both sides of the tap.
Yes, the politics of fear. We have to love those who will blindly follow Big Al and the boys. The sad thing is it costs the rest of us, because we allow our government to buy into it, but they use our money to do so, even Tennessee's own.
It's going to be an interesting few years.
Royce E. Burrage, Jr.
Royce@ReplaceNaifeh.com
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Royce Burrage is right. Have you noticed that since a book in the Old Testament of the Green Bible has been disproven, it has changed from the Book of Global Warming to the Book of Climate Change?
No surprise to me, as I'm well into middle age and have seen the Book of the New Ice Age change to Global Warming, and the Book of the Ozone Hole simply fell off the screen, when 25 years back we were all going to fry a slow, cancerous death under that devilish, danged ozone hole. Pesky, pesky ozone hole.
What always surprises me about this junk is how the adherents transition from one fantasy to the next, never skipping a beat, nor acknowledging the mistake.
John R. Smickle
Chattanooga
jsbottomfeeder@juno.com
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Mr. Burrage and Mr. Smickle,
You are either being disingenuous or you are ignorant of what the global warming issue is about. Global warming refers to the raising of the measured average temperature of the earth. It is not a local phenomenon. Believe it or not, there is more to the world out there than Hamilton County.
If you look at our own government's data, you can clearly see that the average temperature has risen significantly and still continues to do that. It may fluctuate, but the progression upward has been pretty steady for years. The whole issue is that weather is becoming less predictable. So one normal winter is itself an anomaly.
I was around here in the seventies. I remember what the weather was like. You can deny that all you want by calling people names and denigrating those who care to focus on this concern, but that does not change the fact that it exists.
The part that is mostly debatable is how much humans contribute to that. And as for the ozone hole, it was decreasing in size for a while because government action was taken to limit CFC's in the atmosphere, however, it was recently measured by NASA and shown to be increasing again. I guess you missed this little bit of information from that left wing wacko Communist group called NASA.
Bottom line is it is better to save energy than to spend it recklessly. I mean why not? Conservation saves money, decreases our dependence on foreign oil or greedy power providers. Why would you be against that? I guess it’s more fun to call people names and laugh at them than to actually find out the truth for yourselves.
Mario Piccolo
Signal Mountain
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Mr. Burrage and Mr. Smickle,
First, let me establish that I consider myself in the middle on this issue. Or rather, I'm open to both sides, but don't know enough about global warming or climate change to have a firm opinion yet.
Having said that, I have done a small amount of reading non-partisan sources and I believe that the theory of global warming, climate change or whatever you want to call it is that the Earth's poles are warming at a pace that is imperceptible to the average human. In other words, the fact that it snowed in Chattanooga on Sunday night does not disprove (or prove) that these phenomena are happening. One source mentioned slightly warmer winters and slightly cooler summers as effects of climate change, again with "slightly" meaning that we can't tell by licking our fingers and putting them up in the wind or looking outside to see if we need a jacket today or not.
Again, I am not endorsing these theories, because I need to learn more before I take a stand personally. But I think that we should know as much as possible about them before denying (or accepting) them, and that denial (or acceptance) should never be based solely on political affiliation.
John Stegall
Quincy, Ma. (formerly of Chattanooga)
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