Today is taco salad day at the cafeteria, and while a loaded to the rim taco salad might not seem like the thing a fella on a diet might eat I make up for it. I go easy on the rice and sour cream, no on the guac and get buffalo for the meat instead of beef. Topped off with generous helpings of cilantro, onions, habaneros and the chef's hottest salsa it makes a meal fit for... well for me. And it guarantees that people will be leaving me strictly alone later this afternoon.
From the above it should be easy to reach the conclusion that I like things hot. Food, cars, dogs, babes... makes pretty much no difference. The hotter the better. Well except for the babes part as Mrs. BigDog has something of a say there. Combine that all with a beautiful May afternoon and the warm sun beaming down it would make for just about a perfect day.
So while I was sitting back at my desk churning down a meal that would set most people's heads on fire my thoughts would turn to global warming. It was just in the past few days that we were all treated to Madame Speaker blowing herd that Greenland is, in slightly different words, doomed and that it's all our fault thanks to that eeeeeee-vil man made global warming. Hardly a day goes by anymore when we aren't treated to some form of bilge or another on the subject.
I should not have been surprised then, as I basked in the afterglow of fresh habaneros, that a lunchtime surf of Drudge would make me stop and say, in my best Brian Griffin voice, "what the hell?!?!?!?!?!?!?"
First there was this story at the Daily Mail...
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Snow... in the middle of the European continent in May. When the snowplows haven't been out of the barn all year.
And then there was this story at Bloomberg.com...
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Okay, I'll give you that it is indeed winter time south of the Equator. But a "cold wave"??? According to one of my troops, a native of Argentina, it is actually way below normal wintertime cold there now.
And finally I found this story from IOL in Asia....
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Okay... so Nepal is pretty much the highest country, in comparison to sea level, in the world. But it is nearly summertime there now, so why are "freak snow storms" lashing the region?
Especially when there is supposed to be this thing called "global warming".....
I know that there will be those who poo-poo me as not understanding the difference between climate and weather. And I know that there will those who say that the world is getting warmer so we must do something.
Well sorry, but it's called nature. And in comparison to the forces of nature all the efforts of man can largely amount to little more than a costly popcorn fart... into the wind at that. And we, the collective we that is, are standing around with our faces hanging out being spoon fed the new age religion of environmentalism. And in support of this shamanism the economies of the world are going to spend trillions of dollars to try and find a way to make a slightly bigger popcorn fart.
I'm all for religious freedom, and as far as I am concerned the high priests of environmentalism can preach and pronounce all they want... I can choose to not believe and I am NOT less of a human being for it.
