If you want climate change move to Arizona

As a person who holds pretty tightly to his science roots this junk about climate change is getting to be a bit much. It’s the Battling Bickersons to the Nth. Really does it matter whether we, as in the human population of the world, are responsible for these “catastrophic” climate changes? Not to mention that both the “we’re making the world hotter” and “the weather is cyclic” sides seem to possess plausible studies and associated arguments?

It actually stands to reason that humans have affected the climate. We are by far the most successful of all species, short cockroaches, mosquitos, and the Canadian geese around Southpark Mall. And, if you take the geese as an example, there’s no question that we have befouled our environment. Have you tried walking the grounds in the mall area? It’s loaded with green Tootsie rolls, courtesy of our illegal alien goslings.

The problem with predicting climate change is that it changes all the time. Even as sophisticated as the weather folk are, there always seems to be that rogue storm or twister that confounds every one. Back in the ‘60s some clever entrepreneur came up with one of the cleverest ideas of all time: The Weather Rock.

What is a weather rock you ask?

Simple, it’s a chunk of field stone that you put out on your deck or in your yard. Want to know what the weather’s like; if the rock is wet, it’s raining. If it’s dry, it’s not raining. If it’s under a mound of the white fluffy, it’s snowing.

I don’t know how many of them sold, but the idea of making money from that just shows what kind of goose we Americans are. Yes, a silly one.

But in reality, things like the climate change over time. Whether we humans have any real effect on how hot it is getting is hard to judge. After all, according to science, it was pretty hot some time back when there weren’t any humans to blame it on. Of course, the atmosphere back then wasn’t exactly the best for our species, but hey what they heck we’re really just speculating here, aren’t we?

One thing is for certain, at some point one of the two parties is going to be able to stick their tongues out and say, ‘I told you so.’ But I for one don’t believe for an instant that I will be around when that day comes.

Forever, it seems, there have been differences of opinion in science. Back in the day, people believed in the Ptolemaic view of the universe. You know, the one the Pope liked so much, where everything rotated around the Earth, and by proxy the Vatican. But then along comes some upstart named Galileo and he turns the whole thing on its ear.

Science it seems led Galileo to believe that the Sun was the center of our solar system. Of course, the church came out adamantly against such a view, even though we now know it was mostly true, right.

It’s not a lot different from the view held by many that the world was flat. Forever, it seems, the people argued that the world was essentially a disc. The Earth was little more than a Frisbee in space and if you sailed your ship too far, obviously, you would fall off the edge. That too was believed for years before Thor Hayerdahl fell off the edge of the Pacific Ocean in his ship the Kon-Tiki.

Then, in 1969, it was proven even further as astronauts sent back shots of the Earth that resembled a Delft plate. And, as we all know, seeing is believing and by gum that big blue and white thingy looked flat-like a plate.

And yet, it seems like the Good Ol’ U-S-of-A just can’t help but give money to scientists to study all kinds of things. So I guess tossing a few more millions at figuring out whether humans are responsible for the weather heating up isn’t too crazy. But if it keeps on going this way, the next thing you know the government is going to start funding something really stupid like cow emanations.