I am not really delusional enough to suggest that the current winter that we are experiencing in the Four State Area is comparable to the extremely severe winters that they suffer through in Canada. Figuratively speaking, we are having a challenging winter again this year. The cold weather can create hardship both physically as well as financially, with higher energy bills.
The American Indians, who were living in this country when the European settlers arrived many centuries ago, believed that the Great Spirit gave the winter seasons to test a person’s strength. Well, would anyone deny that we are being sufficiently tested this winter?
In order for any theory to become formally recognized as a scientific fact, the rhetoric must match reality. With all due respect to global warming advocates, the cooler, on-average temperatures that we have been experiencing during the last several winter seasons is ample evidence to refute global warming. As someone humorously quipped, “If this is global warming, I hope that we never see global cooling.” Why? Because the result would be catastrophic.
No matter how flowery the premises or how seemingly sophisticated the arguments, in support of any scientific theory, if the issue is in doubt, then I am going to believe what empirical (“based on observation”) evidence suggests. The empirical evidence that has been presented as conspicuously as the noses on our faces, for the past several winters, indicates that global warming is a hoax.
Weather patterns are cyclical. A classic example of this is that the country of Greenland, now very cold, was properly named “Green Land” because it was once very warm and had a long growing season ideally suited for agriculture, when it was discovered by Eric the Red, the Norwegian navigator and Viking, in the 10th century.
James Bruce
Joplin
