It's cold outside. Ironically, I blame global warming. Yes, really.
Global warming as a concept, during times of severe cold weather, is a paradox, but it is actually the driving force of the cold weather, not some foolish politically-motivated non-sensical ideal. The earth is a living, breathing machine; warm and cold fronts are created by the constant movement of water and air; changes in ocean temperatures and levels cause changes in weather patterns, resulting in sudden weather extremities, hot or cold, all explained by the long-term and well-established documentation of average global temperatures going up.
Did you know that if the Arctic continues to melt it will inevitably cause the gulf stream to come to a halt and N. America will freeze over and enter into an 800-year ice age? Yes, because of global warming. Put it this way: if you over-rev your car engine to 9000 RPM and hold it there for an hour, it WILL destroy itself, stop, and suddenly cool very fast. The earth's weather system, too, is a complex engine, equally delicate.
Because of this ridiculous global-warming-denying nonsense, I've abandoned political conservatives along with the communist-minded democrats I was never associated with. Get your heads out of your behinds and pay attention to facts. The numbers (long-term measurements of earth temps and correlating CO2) do not lie. Media and political propaganda, however, do. That is their track record.
On one hand, I am concerned about our responsibility, issued to us by our Creator (
Genesis 1:28), to take care of the life on Earth, which requires us to take care of the Earth itself (
subdue it). My take on global warming isn't one of activism, it's of common sense. It's common sense to produce less CO2. It's common sense to treat the earth delicately. The only thing American "conservatives" are conserving is their old ways of living (good or bad) and automatic opposition to anything and everything the left side has to say. On this one, both sides should be in agreement--we share this earth and we're all going to suffer the same bloody fate.
On the other hand, I couldn't care less about political agendas, I already know that the earth is going to pot. I have my shorts and my air conditioner and I live in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area where the low temps of the year rarely ever reach freezing. I have zero faith in politics because there are alternative forms of energy and transportation that the politicians, decades ago, were lobbied and bribed not to let replace carbon-based energy manufacturing, and pretty much everything we see and hear about as far as politicized successes in alternative energy and transportation are concerned is a farce, a bit of sugar to keep us thinking that they didn't sell us out. That plus it takes more than politicians to break the stronghold of oil-based monopolies. But I just want the controversy to die. I'd be happier if politicians were doing absolutely nothing and there was no controversy, but the scientific community still acknowledged we're about to break our planet, than I am now with half the people I love getting caught up in the conservative frenzy about how despicable them "scamming scientists" are about the "global warming hoax". It hurts me to look at the numbers and then listen to loved ones whine about the cold weather and then say that global warming is therefore proven to be a scam, because it's record-setting cold outside.
To them I say, of course it's cold. Don't confuse weather with climate, and please take notice that it's not just cold, it's dang cold, in lots of places, breaking records in lots of places, and the coldness is weird. The weirdness has an explanation; it's called global warming. And if you remember anything about the meteorology portion of sixth grade science in elementary school, you might recall how dynamic the earth's weather system is, how heat goes up, cold goes down, and colliding air movements create bad weather.