Humans Generally Prefer Warm Over Cold Climates
By Gordon Bishop (02/05/07)
A letter to my local newspaper carried this headline: "Warm January Should Be News." It read like a page from Al Gore's "wobbly Global Warming" documentary. The Press reader was both shocked and saddened when she discovered that the temperature at a Jersey Shore beach registered 68 degrees in the "cold" winter month of January.
What both she and Al Gore have failed to do is to put “global warming” in the proper perspective – that is, the Earth and our solar system that are now roughly five billion years old.
There have been countless cooling and warming cycles over the past five billion years. That’s the natural cycle, with or without any human beings. Yes, humankind is not the culprit. Mother Nature is!
More than 200 million years ago, the great dinosaurs roamed across North America (the northern United States and Canada), which was then a wondrous tropical climate. Dinosaurs could not survive in freezing cold weather. These gigantic lizards loved warm environments.
Tens of thousands of Ice Ages and Melting Glaciers have come and gone over the past several billion years. That’s nature’s way. And it will continue over the next five billion years when our sun runs out of helium gas and our solar system will be a thing of the planetary past.
Most people have forgotten that New Jersey was under miles of ice and glaciers 12,000 years ago. The natives here – the Lenni Lenape tribes – lived through the last Ice Age. New Jersey’s “Garden State” landscape was completely rearranged when the glaciers melted, creating our great rivers and mountains.
In the early 1970s, I read scores of books by academics and journalists about the coming Ice Age and the cooling of the planet. That prediction was short-lived, as books in the 1980s started coming out warning about another devastating heat wave.
Almost all of this warming can be attributed to the sun’s flares, which heat up our entire solar system. Today’s politicians and politically-correct “scientists” blame it on human activity and too many cows, sheep and other pastured animals emitting too much methane. Out with Mother Nature!
The mass media and their readers and viewers are frantically operating 24/7 as they generate endless knee-jerk reactions to every hourly weather report, whether it’s hot or cold. These professional sensationalists are swiftly losing their credibility – what’s left of it.
Get a grip, you “global warmers.” Humankind has always lived with pessimists and ignoramuses that think “the sky is falling,” or that the world’s coming to an end in seven days.
I can’t believe how gullible and just plain ignorance have taken over reason, common sense and rationality among the academic elitist and so-called credited scientists.
Forget about the general public. People today are confused. They’re finding it harder and harder to get the facts, the real truth about what’s going on with our environment.
What we have here is “the blind leading the blind.” We need more Einsteins and Edisons.
No more Karl Marxes, Al Gores, or Jimmy Carters…none of whom live in the real world.
Personally, I would prefer global warming in my home state of New Jersey. I would save lots of money by not heating my home or taking expensive winter vacations to Florida or the Caribbean Islands.
Warm makes me feel good. Cold forces me to wear heavy coats, sweaters, hats, gloves, pants and shoes.
Just think about it. Look how much money you could save living in a climate warmer than New Jersey and other cold areas of the world.
Historians and anthropologists have traced the beginning of the human race to a tropical environment in central Africa. Some call it “Eden.” The first-born human being is biblically named “Adam.”
Human life did not evolve at the North Pole or the South Pole. It began in a warm cradle of life where clothes were not necessary to survive.
Welcome, Global Warming. Without you, life as we know it would not have evolved.
(Gordon Bishop is a “Who’s Who in America” national award-winning author, historian, syndicated columnist and New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year” – 1986/New Jersey Press Association.)
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