I remember back in the 70's, watching a panic special on TV about the looming ice age. We were losing thousands of acres of arable land every year. Except; my Sister's husband's family farmed Durham on North Dakota's northern border. Their farming practice and season had not changed for three generations. Their only changes were toward modernization and larger farms. Today, the youngest son is still farming there. After 35 years, his farm is much larger due to more modern equipment, better seed and more diversity of crops. The one thing that hasn't changed is harvest time. It still prevents him from coming North during our short moose hunting season.
The one thing these predictions all gave in common is DOOM.We are all DOOMED, unless we do as the overlords instruct us. Turn out all the lights, no wait, turn on more lights, turn up the thermostat, or is that turn it down? I don't even know any more.
I just know we are having a good winter here in the Interior. Maybe that's Global warming, or not. I remember the winter of '88-'89. It was like this until late January. We thought, wrongly, that we had it made. It suddenly dropped to -60 degrees , with a low of near -70.
In my 66 years on this Earth I have learned one thing, maybe two. Don't try to predict the weather and totally ignore "EXPERTS" whose livelihood depends on scaring the populace.
Barf!
There is no way we could have another ice age without raising the average temperature of the oceans by at least ten degrees. What is going to do that?
The cooling we have experienced for the last 80 years is normal and cyclical.
Put these guys back in the institution the weekend visit is up
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Good grief, more BS