Nov 11th 2005
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Climate change, fact or fiction…

Global warming, greenhouse gasses, is it the little guy using energy or the big industrial giant pumping tons of pollutants into the atmosphere, am I a dunderhead for buying into all the prevalent hype? Am I so gullible as to believe I can play a part?

Am I to believe that a billion mammoths all farted at once, and this brought down the ice age, or did we cause global cooling, in the first place, by running our campfires to often?

Reality check, we did not cause global cooling, we did not cause the ice packs to recede, and we are not going to stop what was begun before America was discovered and colonized.

Mother nature has a way of pulling the proverbial rabbit out of the hat, natural disasters have plagued her beauty since the dawn of time. Archaeologists digging up our history have deduced what had happened all those years ago, and have discovered evidence of major climate changes time and time again.

The ice flowed and ebbed in leaps and bounds, this planet has been rebounding from the age of ice and will continue to do so with or with out us. How arrogant is mankind to believe he can control the weather.

Undoubtedly we, as a collective, may play a small role. Even if we were all to revert to the ways of our fore fathers we could not stop the process. We cannot save those creatures that we born of the ice. Adapt, evolve or be eliminated, just ask the woolly mammoth buried under tons of snow and ice, they who hadn’t quite finished eating supper. This is natures way.

Climate change can be that fast and furious.

The majority of the hype I hear is business based, not ecological. Conserve energy, so that more people can survive on the same volume, so we don’t have to build new generators or find new ways to cope within the current systems structure.

You, the little guy, cut your emissions so the big business will not be to badly effected by government established environmental controls. Wait a minute, government and business are now so intertwined they mean the same thing…

My case…I live in the northern climate, my home is insulated and warm, I am currently installing an independent power system to supply most of my energy use, I burn wood with fuel oil back-up. A water collection and recycle system is in the planning stages. I’ve even begun work on a root cellar. I saved nothing for the environment, but I’ve made room for more users…the supply system has not changed, my pay back will be measured in years obviously as there is no real help for the little guy from government. They want you to reduce, not eliminate the need for their systems.

Govern yourself accordingly.

That’s it, that’s all

Dennis Paul

P.S. When you don’t know what’s going on, blame global warming…seems to be the trend.

Dec 12th 2005 - Update       

The display of sarcasm on my blog regarding global warming sent my e-mail box for a tizzy, now that I’m caught up with my reading of such, I can answer all those important questions in three parts…get your thinking caps out people.

To start with, the ozone…here’s a dramatic experiment…flush your toilet, what happens to the ozone at the center of rotation? Bare in mind the difference in scale and speed of rotation, but the end result is the same…gone or sparse.

I’d been led to believe as a youth in school, that summer and winter seasons were the direct result of the sun bearing down on the tropics due to axis tilt of the planet. It always bothered me the seasons of fall and spring are so cool yet the earth is at the closest point to the sun in its elliptical path…didn’t quite seem right. Years later I deduced the reasons behind this, maybe I wasn’t paying attention that day.

When the center of axis is pointed toward the sun, the radiated solar winds mix with the air and warm up the polar air. When pointed away from the sun the cold solar winds from the earths shadow mix with the air and cool down the polar air. When the axis is vertical to the sun then there is a blending of warm and cold at the poles.

The second part to the equation is the position in the galaxy. Take an ember from the fire and chuck it away from you. Where is there more warmth, on the leading edge, or the trailing edge of this ember? I’d have to say there is more residual heat at the trailing edge.

We ride on a planet around an older dwarf star and we are spinning around the outer edge of a galaxy that is traveling every which way but loose…I’d also like to suggest that the ice age occurred while we were riding the leading edge of this galaxy and propose we are now about to crest to the trailing edge.

The third part to the equation, a little more abstract, but needs to be said.

At one time it was believed the earth was the center of the universe, then that changed to our solar system at the center of the galaxy…now the realization we are at the edge of this mass of stars. Our sun would have been ripped to atoms in a second and stars would have gone whipping away at all trajectories had we been in the center, you know, the old “string breaking while you are doing around the world at high velocity with the yo-yo” trick. No, there has to be something equal and opposite, in mass or gravitational pull, to all the stars and heavenly bodies that encircle it at the center. Call it a “black hole” or dark energy if you will…but it’s there, and in every cluster of stars or “galaxy”.

This “black hole” must alternate between active and dormant states in order for a galaxy to alter direction and speed. I’ve seen data recently that projects the course of our galaxy over some period. It appears that this black hole is again becoming active as we are, again, beginning to pick up speed. Picture a skater spinning and then moving the arms in and out, you get the picture. Our physics, the way we measure the world around us, is going to under go major changes in the near future. Check out the dog size fossilized dragonfly with a four foot wing span…imagine the lift it required to break the earths gravitation field, imagine the size of it’s favorite food…the mosquito…wonder what creature donated blood to that…

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it…

Dennis Paul

P.S. It’s a great idea to rid the earth of pollution, I applaud the effort…as for sinking billions into stopping global warming…I suggest we put that money into developing the tools to cope with it…