Climate Change Craziness ( #AtoZChallenge ).

       Climate change is real.  It's called weather. And it changes.  Seems like when faced with an inability to control things around us, some people will resort to some crazy changes thinking they have control of things.  And then things change.  What a crazy world!

Climate Change Craziness

     Call me what you want, but I'm not on board with the climate change hoax--at least not to the extent that some are.  I don't deny that humans contribute to climate change and I'm all for trying to come up with solutions.  Logical solutions that make sense economically as well in every other way.  

        Am I caught up in the cause?  Not in any big way, but I do my part.  I just don't go to extremes like some wackos in our society.  Most of those people are probably more anarchist than anything constructive and meaningful to the rest of us.  And if they have true passion then they are grossly misguided in their efforts.

     Climate change solution hoaxes are everywhere and they cost someone billions or even trillions of dollars--usually you and me the taxpayer.  I think about the huge solar power generating facility that I'd seen pop up in the desert at the California/Nevada border a number of years ago--the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. 

      For miles as one approached from either direction on I-15 highway, one would be practically blinded by the brilliant light that emanated from a tower amidst a vast field of what I had thought to be solar panels--3500 acres of them covering an area of 5 square miles.  Then after researching I found out that they were not solar panels but special mirrors aimed up to where one can see that blinding light where there is a large tank of water that is set to boiling by the reflected light.  It sounds crazy to me, but that is another one of those crazy ideas that came out of the Obama years that is now being dismantled because it is not practical.  I could have told them that.

       Now they have a field of mirrors to dispose of.  Thankfully they are close to Las Vegas and not so far from Los Angeles.  I'm sure they'll find somebody to take the mirrors, but they'll never get the money back that they wasted on this project.  But that goes for most of the other climate change nonsense that corrupts so much of the world governments these days.  

       Keep working on things folks.  Some good things are happening and some that make little sense in the grander scheme of things.  Listen to the science.  And I mean all science.

        Do you have any particular fears related to climate change?  Do you believe that it will take something far bigger than humans to destroy the Earth?   Is there a climate change solution that you have found to be particularly absurd?

  

     

     

 

Xerothermic Period (#atozchallenge)

          For the dreaded "X" day I figured I'd have to go with some arbitrary throwaway concept like "Hour X" or "X O'Clock" until I actually found a time term not only beginning with the letter X, but also relevant to a controversial topic of our time--Climate Change.  






Xerothermic Period

        A number of people have asked about my views on climate change suggesting that I write a post on the topic.  This X post will not be that requested post, but it will be somewhat related. Maybe this post will give you a hint where I stand on this highly controversial and even divisive topic.

         If I am interpreting the data I've found correctly then the Xerothermic Period might also be the same as or related in some way to the post-glacial warming era called the Holocene climatic optimum. This was an era of warmer, drier climate that occurred 4,000 to 12,000 years ago according to scientists. 

        The warming primarily was in the northern polar regions as well as climate changes throughout the northern hemisphere and other parts of the Earth.  Since industrialization or other human caused factors were unlikely to have been any influence on this climate change the speculation is that this warming trend was a natural and perhaps cyclical event that could have been due to fluctuations in the Earth's orbit or some other natural cause.

         During this era of climatic change the polar ice caps melted to a great extent as well as the massive glaciers that had moved southward.  There are indications that certain lakes were larger than they are now and it is likely that the oceans came farther inland.  

          As a caveat I will say that I didn't do any extensive research on this topic and by no means offer this post to be of any solid scientific authority, however this seems to be generally representational of certain scientific schools of thinking regarding historical climate change cycles.

           So make of this what you will.  My thoughts are that those who are crying "Wolf!" concerning any influence of human activity regarding climate change might be overlooking historical scientific findings on climate fluctuations of the past.   Maybe some of you have more information about my pondering in this post.  The comment section will welcome any further facts or opinions regarding this.

          Do you think there have been non-humanly influenced periods of climate change in the Earth's past history?   Are you familiar with the theories that vast areas of what is now dry land were once covered by ocean?   Would you rather live in a colder glacial climatic period or a warmer period?