Posted on 04/07/2007 9:21:10 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob
Our last snow fell last night. It was more than a dusting, less than a half inch. Because this was an Easter snow, many of the early blooms were damaged. Those on the peach trees are gone this morning. Perhaps half of those on the apple tree might survive.
The blooms on the forsythia are still there, but they’ve frozen, changed color, and will shortly fall off. Only a few of the daffodils made it through the night. We’ll go out to take photos of a copse of daffodils in the snow, before the warming sun chases the snow away.
The sun porch is already warm, and will probably rise to 90 degrees today, even though the outside temperature is 20. Snow on the lawn reflects the sunshine, adding about half more to the sun gain. Sometimes when a clear blue sky follows on the heels of a snowstorm, the porch gets too hot for the cats to luxuriate on the warm boards.
Is there a point to all this?
Nature has her seasons and reasons. As far south as North Carolina, spring snowstorms are rare. When they come, they offer special vistas. But what is unusual in the short span of a human life, becomes usual in the span of geological or astronomical time.
Consider the patience of the Mayans in recording the movements of the Earth and Sun to compute the calendar of a year to almost the 365.24 days we now know it is. The same point applies, of course, to the current hysteria about global warming. Any report on the subject which does not mention that Earth has been regularly warmer, and cooler, than today, is a dishonest report.
The idea that men can, or even should, maintain Earth’s temperature within a range that is “normal” over the last five decades, is absurd. It would be equally logical for us Americans to decide we don’t want this spring snow, and therefore attempt to prevent it.
Even scientists can push around reality, if they have a mind to deceive rather than inform. A Yale University study just released purports to establish global warming over a span of 250 million years, by using surrogate markers for warming and for carbon dioxide. As usual, the devil is in the details.
The Yale study used 500 data points. Going a half-million years at a jump on average means that a mere 1,000 years utterly disappears. Yet the ice core studies, which go back 450,000 years, directly measured carbon dioxide. That study shows that CO2 does vary with rising temperature, but LAGS BEHIND the temperature rise by about 1,000 years.
It’s basic logic that whatever comes later is an effect, not a cause, of the preceding event. It’s called cause and effect. Even three-year-old children grasp that concept. So, why didn’t the scientists at Yale get the point?
Well, they had an agenda, don’t you see? And people with an agenda – especially one as important as taking over the government and running everyone’s lives – cannot be distracted from their high and noble purpose by mere facts.
Did you know that the top seven feet of the world’s oceans contain as much CO2 as there is in the entire atmosphere of Earth? And, whenever the oceans warm up, CO2 comes out of solution and goes into the air. Anyone who has ever popped the top of a warm soda can and gotten spattered with Coke as the CO2 “boiled” out, understands the point.
Sun cycles offers a much more logical answer, especially since recent work has established that Mars and other planets, and moons, have been showing global warming – with a relatively low level of life forms there burning fossil fuels. There is even a recent study based on parallel observations in Egypt of flooding on the Nile and sunspot activity, which suggests that sun cycles are the answer. The folks at Yale chose to ignore such things.
It is not within our power to control nature. It is within our power to appreciate it. As A. E. Housman wrote in “A Shropshire Lad,”
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.
And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.....
....About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
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About the Author: John Armor practiced in the US Supreme Court for 33 years. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu He lives in the 11th District of North Carolina.
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John / Billybob
The poetry of Wisdom.
Wonderful essay, Mr. Congressman ... the closing gave me goosebumps, and brought a tear near my eye.
Thank you.
Great ending.
But what are the seventy springs referred to?
Thank you.
John / Billybob
And a Joyous & Happy Easter to you & yours, CBB..
It is not within our power to control nature. It is within our power to appreciate it. As A. E. Housman wrote in “A Shropshire Lad,”
Not so. Man has increasingly understood the laws of nature/physics to increasingly control nature/physics. Nature nor man can refute or violate the laws of nature/physics. He certainly has utilized them to interrupt what nature alone can do. No on will ever witness nature alone creating a rover on Mar's or any place else. Human longevity is testament to man's ability to increasingly understand nature to increasingly control nature.
Sooner rather than later with the Law of Accelerating Returns -- the exponential advancing technology curve we are now at the knee of -- human ingenuity will develop technologies to accelerate lies, spin and deception toward their inevitable annihilation on contact with honesty. The progression can be seen from the Golden Age of Greece to the printing press to the Internet and WWW. From manuscripts written on parchment to Atlas Shrugged on the head of a pin. From counting boards and abacus to a trillion calculations per second.
Value destroyers and parasitical elites don't own the technologies they wield against the populace. They usurp them from those they wield them against--the value creators and value producers. Bit by bit each lie, spin and deception that comes in contact with honesty accelerates the collapse of the colossal, rickety house of cards. Simultaneously, value creators/producers will reclaim their usurped technologies.
Conversely, should the opposite happen, for example the terrorist or Greens "win", everyone loses.
Powerful documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle
Superb!
While everything I’ve read of yours has been good/interesting etc. THIS one has been a pleasure too.
I’m in south- central New Mexico... That darn global warming has not permitted the temperature to get above freezing here yet today, as of 1PM anyway.
Thank you. That was beautiful, and beauty is largely forgotten these dire day. Hava a glorious Easter Day, for HE IS RISEN! Hallelujah!
Thank you. That was beautiful, and beauty is largely forgotten these dire days. Have a glorious Easter Day, for HE IS RISEN! Hallelujah!
In fact, I just looked out the window, and it is snowing again.
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