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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

2/09/12 WHETHER OR NOT

WINTER DAWN

RED MAPLE BUDS ARE SWELLING


PUPPIES
Wednesday, 8:00 AM.  17 degrees F, wind SW, light but picking up.  The sky is mostly clear and the barometer is up, predicting partly cloudy skies.  The red maple flower buds are swelling, but we are experiencing colder temperatures again and it is still winter.
        The Coast Guard family on 7th St. has a new puppy, an Alaskan Husky with blue eyes  that is as cute as a button.  It pretty much has the run of its yard and often comes out to greet Buddy and me when we walk by.  Buddy is evidently just about out of the puppy stage and wants to play with the little gal. Huskies are affectionate, fairly mild mannered dogs, and a lot of folks hereabouts have them as pets without ever a thought of them pulling a sled.
        Commentary: The Wall Street Journal had an op-ed a couple of days ago signed by sixteen prominent scientists which essentially debunked the idea of “global warming,” and the concept that there is a consensus among scientists that carbon dioxide is a major threat to the environment.  The scientists were from MIT, Princeton, NASA, Cambridge, and Rockefeller University, among other prestigious institutions. 
        The article went on to explain  that government and nonprofit money for grants and contracts to universities and the “green” industry is the driving force behind the Global Warming issue, and now that the warming argument has been effectively neutered, the issue is being called “climate change,” which is blamed for every unforeseen or disastrous weather event that occurs .  It also noted that there has been no evidence of Global Warming for the past decade, and although many parts of North America have experienced a mild winter, Europe has been in a record deep freeze.  As always, when trying to understand complex issues, “follow the money.”
        I am happy  to say that I have been debunking Global Warming extremism for the past twenty-five years, and will sign off with the old adage, “Whether it’s cold or whether it’s hot, we’ll have weather, whether or not.”

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