My friend in the next office takes global warming as an established fact, and he is simply cannot comprehend my skepticism. To him, it’s as if I believed the world was flat. On Monday he brought me the front page of the Washington Post which had a mawkish piece about how the Eskimos somewhere in Alaska were losing their traditional way of life because of climate change. I’m sorry I told him, I’m just too emotional about what’s happened to those poor Eskimos to even talk about this right now, as I buried my head on my desk with theatrical sobbing.
I just did a science expo for a bunch of Cub Scouts here. I had to do experiments that were on the tamer side of things, so I started with the old standby - dry ice in hot water.
However, I thought I’d take the opportunity to educate the parents too, so I brought a helium balloon with me.
I started by saying that even though you can’t ‘see’ air, it still has weight. I showed them the balloon and asked why it was trying to go up - they answered it was because of Helium.
Right. It’s lighter than oxygen, and so it pushes the balloon up.
Then I put the dry ice in the hot water and it fogged the ground, spilling clouds off of the desk and rolling down around their feet.
COOL!
I then asked, “Hey, how come the CO2 is hugging the ground?” They I showed them it can’t go up because ITS HEAVIER THAN AIR!!
Then I asked, “IF CO2 is heavier than air, how could it be holding the heat from the sun like a greenhouse would?
Cub Scouts: “It can’t!!!”
That’s right boys and girls!
I had parents come up afterward and say that’s the first time global warming had ever been explained to them, and now they know it is BS.
True story.
You can believe a politician, or you can believe your lying eyes.