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February 10, 2007
Confused Americans for Truth - The Cold Snap Continues
Bruce took some Economics courses as an undergraduate in the mid Seventies. At the time, inflation and unemployment were both on the rise, but according to his economics textbook, unemployment and inflation were locked in a relationship in which an increase in one meant a decrease in the other. Bruce rather gleefully pointed this out in class, because he hadn't yet discovered pinball and disagreeing with textbooks was what he did for fun in those days.
I am reminded of this situation as we move into our fourth week of below-freezing temperatures. If a warm winter is evidence of global warming, then I want to see predictions of a coming ice age for this ridiculous cold snap. I'm serious, people! It is so cold that even cuddling with the Gremlin is useless.
On the other hand, maybe the temperature outside the window is just normal craziness, whether it be an unseasonably warm January or an apocalyptically cold February. Maybe we find Global Warming under every rock because that's what we expect to see, and when the evidence points the other way, we spend extra time to find something wrong with it. And maybe the Earth's climate is finally recovering from the ice epoch that made warm blood such an important survival trait and it's time to adapt or die.
In the meantime, find a company that sells space heaters and start buying up the stock right now.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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