LOVE that video!! I will send it to her. Reminds me of when she was in HS and I would strike up a conversation with, say, someone in the grocery line and she would dig her nails into my arm and hiss MOM YOU ARE SO EMBARRASSING.
But there are some people with whom having a conversation with them IS draining. And I am finding myself increas…
LOVE that video!! I will send it to her. Reminds me of when she was in HS and I would strike up a conversation with, say, someone in the grocery line and she would dig her nails into my arm and hiss MOM YOU ARE SO EMBARRASSING.
But there are some people with whom having a conversation with them IS draining. And I am finding myself increasingly bored with the typical 'cocktail party chatter' that goes on in mixed political groups, mainly because nearly every topic of interest is now taboo. Went to a neighborhood pool party last weekend and I was looking for the exit within an hour. I mean, heck, I was talking about the challenge of trying to grow my flowers this year due to the schizophrenic weather we've had this spring and early summer, and this chick launches into a climate change rant. Sigh. Even the weather is political.
My line of questioning to anyone that wants to go off on climate change goes something like, So the earth is how many billion years old? And estimates are that humans have been here only a fraction of that time, some multiple of tens of millions of years? I don't think climate science has dug into the earth's crust to figure out the precise cycles of climate change over the billions of years; I'm not even sure the crust holds those records. Do you know? (They don't.) Do you know how those measurements or judgements are made (about climactic conditions over eons)? (They don't.) We know about glaciers and glacial retreat from evidence, like at Yosemite or in the upper northeast US. Do you know the timing on that? What era of geological history? No? Well, we know it wasn't in our lifetime. Or the last 600 years or so, when the Europeans first arrived. Oh and by the way, how is it there are salt deposits in Utah? You know, the salt flats? And salt mines deeper in the earth? All salt comes from the sea. Where's the nearby sea to Utah? There was no sea in Utah when Europeans came to the continent. Do you think maybe the climate changed over eons and maybe where there used to be a sea it's now inland? I'm guessing that could happen again, in reverse, but it's liable to be gradual; you and I will be long gone before the sea creeps back to Utah. You think? Have you been tracking the creep of sea level? Have you clocked the timeline for the sea to cover coastal cities? Are they supposed to be gone in 10 years? 5? 20? What's the latest prediction? How come the Obamas and Gores and Bushes all have multi-million dollar coastal properties? Did you know that in the 1970s global cooling activists were predicting an ice age by 2000? That didn't happen. There was some level of hysteria about it from an outlier faction. You know, the doom and gloom types. Did you know that by the 1980s the story had flipped and the warnings were about global warming instead of an impending ice age? Doesn't it seem odd that that outlook could have changed so drastically in the space of about a decade? Did you know that by the end of the 1980s an activist with U.N. ties was giving dire warnings that if things didn't change entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by the year 2000? I forget his name. He's a forgettable figure. We're 20+ years past his dire deadline. Last time I checked no nations had been wiped off the face of the earth as a result of any climate shift. ...Yadda. Be ready to spew back at them. They're just spouting what they've been fed. Tell them you remember this stuff, they can go look it up. I hear ya, there's nary a subject that doesn't have a political spin on it. I'm just venting again. Thanks for your patience!
see? There are advantages to being an introvert - you don't have to listen to these idiots, lol. Yeah I am right there with ya. When my kids were still at home a local science museum used to have 'Science Saturdays' speakers once a month and I would take my kids. One talk was by a local TV meteorologist who spent about 2 hours debunking the 'global warming' narrative using a lot of your same points. Not long after that, he was off the air. He is now a state Senator in Kansas.
So true. As an introvert I don't feel like I'm missing out one bit - on the neighborhood pool party or whatever. Very quiet neighbor.
Local TV weather broadcaster has had the job for +25 years. Up until about maybe a decade ago spoke his mind (logic based on science) about global warming or climate change, I forget, Both maybe, it's been that long. Then seemed like overnight he flipped. I surmise he was blackmailed about keeping his job. So now we know how he chooses to butter his bread.
LOVE that video!! I will send it to her. Reminds me of when she was in HS and I would strike up a conversation with, say, someone in the grocery line and she would dig her nails into my arm and hiss MOM YOU ARE SO EMBARRASSING.
But there are some people with whom having a conversation with them IS draining. And I am finding myself increasingly bored with the typical 'cocktail party chatter' that goes on in mixed political groups, mainly because nearly every topic of interest is now taboo. Went to a neighborhood pool party last weekend and I was looking for the exit within an hour. I mean, heck, I was talking about the challenge of trying to grow my flowers this year due to the schizophrenic weather we've had this spring and early summer, and this chick launches into a climate change rant. Sigh. Even the weather is political.
Jeez.
My line of questioning to anyone that wants to go off on climate change goes something like, So the earth is how many billion years old? And estimates are that humans have been here only a fraction of that time, some multiple of tens of millions of years? I don't think climate science has dug into the earth's crust to figure out the precise cycles of climate change over the billions of years; I'm not even sure the crust holds those records. Do you know? (They don't.) Do you know how those measurements or judgements are made (about climactic conditions over eons)? (They don't.) We know about glaciers and glacial retreat from evidence, like at Yosemite or in the upper northeast US. Do you know the timing on that? What era of geological history? No? Well, we know it wasn't in our lifetime. Or the last 600 years or so, when the Europeans first arrived. Oh and by the way, how is it there are salt deposits in Utah? You know, the salt flats? And salt mines deeper in the earth? All salt comes from the sea. Where's the nearby sea to Utah? There was no sea in Utah when Europeans came to the continent. Do you think maybe the climate changed over eons and maybe where there used to be a sea it's now inland? I'm guessing that could happen again, in reverse, but it's liable to be gradual; you and I will be long gone before the sea creeps back to Utah. You think? Have you been tracking the creep of sea level? Have you clocked the timeline for the sea to cover coastal cities? Are they supposed to be gone in 10 years? 5? 20? What's the latest prediction? How come the Obamas and Gores and Bushes all have multi-million dollar coastal properties? Did you know that in the 1970s global cooling activists were predicting an ice age by 2000? That didn't happen. There was some level of hysteria about it from an outlier faction. You know, the doom and gloom types. Did you know that by the 1980s the story had flipped and the warnings were about global warming instead of an impending ice age? Doesn't it seem odd that that outlook could have changed so drastically in the space of about a decade? Did you know that by the end of the 1980s an activist with U.N. ties was giving dire warnings that if things didn't change entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by the year 2000? I forget his name. He's a forgettable figure. We're 20+ years past his dire deadline. Last time I checked no nations had been wiped off the face of the earth as a result of any climate shift. ...Yadda. Be ready to spew back at them. They're just spouting what they've been fed. Tell them you remember this stuff, they can go look it up. I hear ya, there's nary a subject that doesn't have a political spin on it. I'm just venting again. Thanks for your patience!
see? There are advantages to being an introvert - you don't have to listen to these idiots, lol. Yeah I am right there with ya. When my kids were still at home a local science museum used to have 'Science Saturdays' speakers once a month and I would take my kids. One talk was by a local TV meteorologist who spent about 2 hours debunking the 'global warming' narrative using a lot of your same points. Not long after that, he was off the air. He is now a state Senator in Kansas.
So true. As an introvert I don't feel like I'm missing out one bit - on the neighborhood pool party or whatever. Very quiet neighbor.
Local TV weather broadcaster has had the job for +25 years. Up until about maybe a decade ago spoke his mind (logic based on science) about global warming or climate change, I forget, Both maybe, it's been that long. Then seemed like overnight he flipped. I surmise he was blackmailed about keeping his job. So now we know how he chooses to butter his bread.
Just stumbled on this, thought you would like it https://twitter.com/PaulHook_em/status/1683974655651053568
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