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Snow, snow and more snow

Feb 4, 2010 My thoughts on...

Back in the 1970′s those of us who were blessed to live in the Appalachian Mountain region endured some pretty harsh winters. It seemed like we received a major snowfall at least once a week, and since the daytime temperatures rarely made it above freezing the snow we got never seemed to melt. In fact, the 70′s was such a cold, snowy decade that many prominent scientists began predicting the impending return of yet another ice age.

Now, fast forward to the turn of the century. All of a sudden the same scientists who were predicting the arrival of a veritable global deep freeze just a few short decades earlier changed course and began warning a gullible population that we should scrap the notion of cooling temperatures and prepare to bake as the earth heated up like a gigantic greenhouse.

Many of these scientists (along with a few sleazy politicians such as Al Gore) quickly discovered that they could become incredibly wealthy by instilling into the average folks an intense desire not to burn up, and they began to deliver stern, never-ending warnings that it would indeed happen, and fast, if we failed to take immediate action to stop it.

But now the folks have caught on to the hoax thanks to a plethora of hacked emails that show that climate data have routinely been altered (and in some cases deleted) in order to show a pattern of global warming where in fact one does not exist. Oh, and the fact that a large percentage of the earth’s population can look out their windows this winter and see snowfall after snowfall reminiscent of those back in the 70′s didn’t help their cause either.

Now I’m not one to become overjoyed when I see another round of the white stuff hitting the ground or watch the mercury drop to rock bottom, but I do get a little chuckle every time I see another blizzard hit pretty much any locale where Al Gore’s private jet touches down on a runway.