Subj : weather and climate
To   : JIM WELLER
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Oct 23 2022 20:16:14

Hi Jim,

 RH> climatologists claiming that we're cooling down

 JW> They are not climatologists at all, just badly informed uneducated
 JW> people who do their socalled research on conspiracy websites and
 JW> unscrupilous politicians who are getting their election campaign
 JW> funding from Big Oil and the coal industry.

It pretty well goes in one ear and out the other as far as I'm
concerned.


 JW> The science is firmly established beyond a reasonable doubt

 JW> Our CO2 levels have been increasing since the coal based industrial
 JW> revolution in the 1600s and the curve sharpened dramatically at the
 JW> end of WWII. By the 1980s the effects were noticable to anyone with
 JW> their eyes open, not just scientists studing the situation.

 RH> But how long will this last?

 JW> Until the planet decreases it's carbon footprint substantially
 JW> and traps some of the existing CO2 with measures such as
 JW> reforestation etc.

But we'll be long gone by then.

 RH> Looking over the last couple hundred or
 RH> so years, there have been extreme warming and cooling spells.

 JW> There have not been! Look it up. The last cool period of any
 JW> consequence was 500 years ago in the 1500s.

The year without a summer--early part of the 1800's, after an earthquake
in/around New Madrid, MO, is what I was thinking about specifically. I
understand weather was affected for a couple of years with that.


 RH> But will it last or will we go into another cooling spell in the next
 RH> 50 years or so?

 JW> Not a chance.

As I said, I'll be long gone so I'm not that concerned about it.

 JW> Imagine the southern borders of the USA and Europe each being
 JW> overrun by a hundred million starving desperate refugees armed with
 JW> clubs, knives and their fists who will not turn around no matter
 JW> what. Now imagine a billion.

 RH> We saw, in AZ, especially in/around Phoenix so many green yards.
 RH> isn't as good a place for those with asthma as it used to be

 JW> Exactly. It proves my point.

We like the southeastern corner of the state better--high desert.

 RH> No, in that state it's due to a lot of poeple moving in, saying they
 RH> miss such and such greenery from where they used to live, then plant
 RH> it and dump gazillion gallons of water on it to make it grow.

 JW> That WAS my point. City people wasting water on a frivolity.

I'd rather rake my yard than mow it.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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