Posted by zooeyhall on December 20, 2008 at 06:42:35 from (98.135.149.82):
We're having our third blizzard this Sat. morning out here in Nebraska--the 4th big snowfall since December began. It's been 2 weeks since the temperature has even reached 20 deg, and we have had an entire week where the lows went below 0. And most of the winter is in front of us yet!
I was wondering what you guys (and gals) think about all this "Global Warming"--I personally think it's a bunch of hype. I don't know about other parts of the country, but I do know that in Nebraska the one thing you can predict about the weather is that it is unpredictable.
It would be easy to pass-off these Global Warming doomsayers, but there is something really sinister about what they want to do. If you listen to them, they say that we in the U.S. are wasteful pigs and that we need to "atone" for it by implementing drastic social and economic changes. And that countries in Africa and China need to be given breaks to "use all the oil they want" because somehow we have been to "greedy". They've already done some things in Europe I've heard. You have to pay a "carbon tax" on your car and your home heating furnace, I suppose to "punish" you for putting CO2 in the air. They also want to ban all motor cars and truck transport. There are other things that they are planning as well to reduce what they call our "wastefulness".
Back in the '70s, there was a big flap because back then they were all worried about "Global Cooling"!
The hottest driest year we ever had in Nebraska, in 125 years of keeping weather records, was back in 1936. It was also the coldest winter ever yet recorded. Were we supposed to have banned all Model A Fords back then?
I think alot of these Global Warming drum-beaters live on the West Coast and they know absolutely nothing about the weather. I'm 53 and been farming for 30 years and I know that the weather can do anything. I've seen warm days in January and frosts in late May. That's just what you can expect out here in the midwest. But I don't think you can take something as unpredictable as the weather and use it to force people to go back to a world of candlelight and mule power.
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