I tried to post earlier. It May be that as a newbie I did it wrong. Or, my post may have been deleted. If so, no Ill will attempted. If it disappears again, I’ll figure I was in the wrong.
This was My response to a dear friend who sees things differently than I.
“But, It's not rocket science. (well maybe) but, it’s what Science claims, so what I should listen to (or so I’m told)
Fact 1: where I sit typing was once covered by over a mile of ice.
Fact 2: Where I sit, during the Silurian period, New England was in near equatorial weather patterns.
Fact 3: Scientists tell us that the "Ice Age" phenomena is on going and takes thousands of years to hit bottom (the coldest) and then thousands more to hit the top (warmest) Creating a gradient scale over time.
For my 60 + years, we've had all seasons here in the NE. They say every 100,000 years there is an ice age and a converse swing as we come out of it. By the math from when they say the last one was, we are near the half way mark.
Fact 4: Scientists tell us that the universe came into being during a "Big Bang" explosion sending partials, large and small, collecting, solidifying, cooling into planets, and other celestial bodies and debris which continue an outward expansion through space and time.
Fact 5: Scientists tell us that the unique weather patterns that we have grown use to during our lives and that we know as "New England" weather are a direct reflection of our exposure to the Sun's rays and that winter and summer are determined by our orbit around the sun and the tilt of our poles. Neither of which they tell us are constants. But not only is the solar system expanding with the universe, which would effect the "distance" and by that the timing of seasons, they also say that the poles wobble and have even flipped.
Ok, I get all that. But then on top of that they tell us that it is our fault that the weather patterns are changing. And its our doing. Even though, individually, Mt. St Helen's and Vesuvius, individually in one day, put more pollutants into the atmosphere than all of mankind's creations from his emergence from the sea. (Not that I believe the sea was our origin, so sue me) And they tell us, we have the power to fix it. Oh well, good thing I'm one of those people who believe in intelligent design. Otherwise I might loose sleep over 60 degree weather in New England in November and a greatly needed input of precipitation in desert areas (which use to be fertile wet lands) getting snow.
When they figure out which of these is true.... get back to me.
All that being said, I do believe in climate change. Not that the changes we are seeing are man made, but can be scientifically explained by some of the info above. I’ve noted (not scientifically) that for most recent years winter temps are just as severe, but come a month or more later. Seeing October weather in early December... ok, spring seems to come later. Now with the “ever expanding” theory of the Big Bang, those kind of changes then make sense to me...”
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