As I sat down to write this post, I had an idea of what I was going to write. It was going to be a really good blog. Somewhere between signing into my account and opening a new post I forgot what I was going to write. I hate my memory sometimes. I usually have a pretty good memory, but my short term memory can be really bad sometimes. Example: Sometimes when leaving my house I forget where I was supposed to be going momentarily. Thankfully Christi catches me and directs me to the right place. This usually happens when we are on the way out to eat. I have no idea why. Hopefully it won't get worse.
Wow, it sure is cold outside! I don't know about you all, but I do not function well in cold weather. I am definitely a warm weather person. This cold weather needs to hurry up and leave, but it appears that it is going to stick around for a while. Historically, it is coldest in February and March (at least to me) so I'm dreading how cold it is going to get. The one plus side to cold weather is snow. I like snow if I can stay home and play in it, but only for a few days. After that it gets a little annoying. Of course, this is Georgia snow I am talking about. If I was off in Colorado skiing I would be in the snow all day every day. However, I think that too would get a little old.
This cold weather reminds me of global warming, or lack thereof. I recall recently that some people hacked into one of the leading climate research center's computer system. This research center was campaigning for global warming and getting a lot of funding from countries to come up with solutions to the global warming problem. Turns out, it's basically a hoax. There were tons of emails from scientists complaining the temperature has actually dropped instead of risen like they had hoped. I know, crazy. Google "global warming center hacked" or something similar and look at all the articles about it. Here, I did it for you It reminds me of my earth and atmospheric science elective I took at GT (much better than Physics 3!) Climate change was a hot topic in the class (sorry for the bad pun) and our professor showed us some interesting things. For many, many years they have been taking core samples from the earth that has layers and layers of the earth's surface in them comprising of many, many years. I don't remember the exact temperatures, but basically as far back as they can date, the earth's temperature has fluxuated up and down. If you graph the data is presents to be a nice sine wave. As of 2006, we were on the downward slope that showed the earth was cooling down, not warming up, if you believed the thousands of years of earth core data, that is. There was some worry that the earth should have cooled down a decade ago and that man-made global warming was causing this re-heating, but as shown in those article and emails, it's basically been a lie. We're going to be cooling back down more than likely and a few decades later it's going to get warmer again. The key will be how cold (or hot) it gets, because at one point all of the northern states were glaciers (ice age), but I doubt it will get that cold anytime soon.
The point I'm trying to make is that don't accept everything at face value, even if a large group of "smart" people are telling it to you. I think with the way the media is today, it's hard to find news that doesn't have any spin put on it. I guess that's the skeptic in me, but it seems like these days people don't do something unless they get something in return for it. I know, it's sad that my mind works like that now, but that's how I feel about the media. They can completely control how you think and feel about a situation based on how much they cover it, what information they report (and don't report), what words they use to describe people, and whether it relates to their parent company's interests or not, etc. After all, the media outlets are owned by about 4 or 5 huge parent companies, possibly less now. They all have other business interests they are trying to protect and I wouldn't put it past them to slant a story to their benefit. I mean, how many people actually heard about the climate center hacking? I never saw it on any of the 'big' outlets. That doesn't mean it wasn't reported, but to me this is a pretty big issue that challenges what a former vice president has been hawking for many years now (and raking in tons of dough for). Ok, enough of that. I'm not trying to get political, but I am saying just take the time to think for yourself and maybe do some research something if you have questions.
Climate change reminds me of something else I always think about. I find it hilarious when I see a Prius get pulled over for speeding. Driving that fast kind of defeats the purpose of owning a hybrid I think, even though I'm sure that person is still getting better gas mileage than me. I think that's why I enjoy seeing it happen.
Well, this has been enough of a random rant post. I'll have some Landon news and pictures coming this week and possibly some more things if I have time. Unfortunately I'm still taking down Christmas decorations so I'll likely do that before I post anything else. I know, we're a little behind, but at least we're actually taking them down now. Stay warm everyone.
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