Global Warming Made Simple

Global Warming, the simple explanation

Ever get in an argument with someone who says, “We can't have global warming because we had the coldest winter on record”?

My answer is, in the winter, “It is summer in Argentina.”

It shuts them up as they are now convinced I am crazy. Unfortunately, I probably am not. However, here is a simple explanation, not into the cause, but how it works.

You have built a pendulum which is nicely swinging over a piece of paper with marks from 0 to 10 on both sides. 0 would be the position of the pendulum at rest. It is swinging between -2 and 2. It will keep swinging there forever because you added a motor to keep it swinging there.

Along comes your friend and hits the table knocking it to 8. It overrides the motor and swings back to -7 and ¾ as it tries to return to the -2/2 position it is programmed to swing to for eternity. It is going to take a while for that motor to get it back to -2/2.

This is what happened to the earth. We, or something, knocked the table. Now the summers are hotter than normal and no shock, the winters are colder as the earth tries to get back to normal.

But, this is not Global Warming. This has happened many times in the past with mini-ice ages and sudden warmings. The historical evidence is overwhelming.

When our friend knocked the table this time, something new happened. The stand the pendulum was attached to moved from 0 to 1. So now even when the motor takes the pendulum to a -2/2 swing eventually, it will now be a -1/3 swing. This is Global Warming. The earth can never return to the previous range of temperatures because we moved the default setting.

Now let's build a model of some place on earth. There are mountains, plateaus, rivers, flat areas, hilly areas, and even a few crevices. Along comes our clumsy friend and spills his super sized coffee on our model. Coffee is everywhere but the top of the mountains and plateaus. It is heading for the rivers and crevices but they were already full so it covers the flat areas. Our model is forever changed.

This is weather. There are all sorts of things that cause the weather here to be different from the weather a mile away. It flows and swirls. This is why the models for Global Warming are averages but within the area of the average, the effect may not be seen. Whereas Florida, in the Atlantic Ocean, is still the same size, whole islands in the Philippines, in the Pacific Ocean, are sinking fast and a couple are gone. Although the Atlantic Ocean is higher than the Pacific, and pundits would point out Florida should be one sinking fast, they fail to note the north oceans are higher than the south oceans, so the effects are felt in the southern hemispheres first and Florida is in the Northern Hemisphere.

This is how our friend in the first paragraph was easily mislead. There is simply more to the world than the city he lives in. Weather is a complex system that ebbs and flows over and around, as are the oceans. This is why we do averages. It doesn't matter what the cause of Global Warming is, the zero point has moved and it isn't going back. That is what they call the point of no return.

So what IS the big deal about a few degrees.

All life on earth is basically teetering on the lives of a few tiny creatures and plants that feed larger ones and so forth. It is one huge game of Jinga. Pull the bottom plank out and eventually the whole thing falls down. These tiny creatures and plants survive in a very narrow range of environment deep within the oceans and earth. When you move the zero point, you start killing them and then gradually or fast at this point, the creatures that eat them die and all the way up the food chain until finally, we die.

And it is not just food. Diseases that exist only in tropical areas, suddenly find it nice and comfy in what were less tropical areas. Take Montezuma's Revenge for example. It lives happily in Mexico. The Mexicans are immune to it having been born there to immune parents but any tourist will tell you that evil bug is waiting for you to touch the water. Now, what if it finds a comfy spot in Texas and Florida because they are now hotter, sort of like Mexico. That could cause a lot of the elderly and young to die from it because it is a nasty bug. Do you see how this works now? Without immunity to European bugs, the Spanish almost wiped out the Mayans and Aztecs without even trying. Now they may almost wipe us out. Some would call it Karma but I call it Global Warming. I know what awaits you in those hot steaming places. I have lived there. I am immune.

Know your friendly mosquito? They really love you. Most of those bloodsuckers die or hibernate somewhat successfully all winter. Without winter, they breed and multiple all year and now the more tropical, vicious ones have moved into the south from the Caribbean and Central America. They also carry diseases.

So it's not just a matter turning the AC down cooler or buying one, you now have new neighbors and they really aren't human but they love the new food: YOU.

Yes, Global Warming is as serious as leaving your kids and grandkids an uninhabitable planet, so wake up. The people you follow claiming it doesn't exist, know it does. Actions speak louder than words. Who do you find among their ranks? You find trophy hunters killing endangered species. How do you think they justify that? Oh, they are just thinning the herd because Global Warming is going to kill them anyway. You find the cruelest people harming the weakest of us, the handicapped, elderly and poor. How do they sleep at night? Oh, very well because a fast death is better than a slow death from the effects of Global Warming. You find the proponents of fossil fuels trying to pump them out as fast and dirty as they can because why not, the whole planet is dying so make those billions while you can. Live it up fellows, there really is no tomorrow. Why research diseases when we are going extinct? Why support the arts when there will no one here to see them? Why not endless war when people are just going to die anyway? We can play with people's lives because they are dying, they just don't know it. We will be living with our kids in underground bunkers, growing our own food with super filters for water and air and climate controlled temperatures because we have the money and you don't.

Yes, if they can just keep pulling the wool over a large chunk of the people in the world's eyes, they can reduce the population so much they don't have to worry about anyone storming the old bunker when the surface is uninhabitable, medicines are used up, food is gone and people can't breathe.

You might want to think about that before your next political rally. No one is going to tell you the real truth except a few high school students who have figured out what this Boomer has because that next rally might turn into something closer to a riot complete with a French solution and the people arriving in the impressive jet as God's chosen, know it. They don't care about you because they are in save my ASSets mode. They know exactly what is coming and if they can just get enough billions, they can survive.

Hoarding, dear ones, is a reaction to scarcity, real or perceived. These guys have never know a moment in their lives when they couldn't have or buy anything they wanted, so the scarcity must be perceived as coming and where would they get that idea in a world in which they have so much money they and several generations down the road couldn't spend it all if they started right now? Think about that for a moment when you start to deny Global Warming.

If you had a product and someone told you there was no scenario in which anyone would buy your product in ten years, would you sell it all off right now for a profit and invest in a new product that would sell or would you start making all of it you possibly could? Now why would the fossil fuel companies ramp up their production to unimaginable levels when they knew this? Why wouldn't they invest in solar, wind and water power? It's almost like they expected the world to end...........