Here in beautiful Michigan,
I've been hearing predictions
about the global warming crisis,
and dangerously declines
of the Great Lakes water level
starting a few years after I arrived
in summer 1977,
direct from NYU's Stern School of Business,
with an MBA, for my first real job.
While waiting for those predictions
to come true, those of us who live here
have experienced some unusually cold,
or snowy, winters in recent years,
and recent water levels in the Great
Lakes are above average.
So, should we believe our own eyes,
or the repeated warnings of doom?
In the fraud called "climate change",
which actually means runaway global
warming from man made CO2 added
to the atmosphere, we are told to ignore
actual measurements, and believe the
warnings of a coming climate crisis!
We are told to "believe" scary predictions
... that have been wrong for the past
30 years.
... that have been wrong for the past
30 years.
We are told there was +1 degree C. warming
since 1880, based on wild guesses
more than actual measurments.
But that can't be spun into a scary
coming catastrophe -- giving politicians
an excuse to seize more power
and tax private sector energy usage.
since 1880, based on wild guesses
more than actual measurments.
But that can't be spun into a scary
coming catastrophe -- giving politicians
an excuse to seize more power
and tax private sector energy usage.
+ 1 degree C. since 1880
is even less scary,
after you learn half
is even less scary,
after you learn half
the warming, is from "adjustments"
to the raw temperature data!
+ 1 degree C. since 1880
is even less scary,
when you learn over half
is even less scary,
when you learn over half
of the surface temperature numbers,
used for compiling the global average
temperature, are wild guesses by
government bureaucrats,
because most areas
of our planet's surface
have no thermometers.
of our planet's surface
have no thermometers.
And that applies to today,
not the 1800s !
Before 1800 was much worse:
Over 3/4 of the Earth's surface
Over 3/4 of the Earth's surface
had no measurements
= wild guess numbers were used !
= wild guess numbers were used !
There were almost no Southern
Hemisphere measurements,
outside of Australia,
during the 1800s,
and few measurements there,
from 1900 to 1940 !
Predictions of the future
are not accepted at this blog,
because real science is based on data,
measurements, and observations,
not wild guess predictions
of a future climate catastrophe !
Michigan is a two-peninsula state,
connected by a long suspension bridge,
and surrounded by several Great Lakes.
The northern part of our state
is called the Upper Peninsula, or UP,
and the people who live there full time
are called "yoopers", by those who
live in the Lower Peninsula,
which we just call "Michigan".
I guess we describe yoopers
just like Hillary Clinton described
the "deplorable" Republicans,
which helped her lose the election!
There are about 620 miles
from the southeast corner
of the Lower Peninsula,
to the most western part
of the Upper Peninsula,
and that's not even including
the length of the boat ride to
the Isle Royale National Park
-- a Michigan island
in Lake Superior.
The Lower Peninsula is shaped
like your right hand, held up,
with the palm facing your eyes.
We don't use maps to give directions
in the Lower Peninsula -- we just
hold up our right hand, and use our
left hand index finger to point to
the appropriate place on our right hand.
That's so important to know, it is
included in all driver's tests.
If an older person asks us for directions,
we always carry a pen,
to draw an "X" on their right hand,
so they won't forget the directions
one minute later
(just like I usually do,
after the wife forces me
to stop and ask for directions,
after she realizes I'm lost,
not "taking the scenic route"
and "making good time",
as I had been claiming
for the past hour).
The wife and I have lived
in Bingham Farms, Michigan
since 1987, five miles north of
Detroit's northern border.
Bingham Farms was the fastest
growing community in Michigan
during the 1980s -- because
a 500-person condo complex
was built here on the 1980s,
doubling our population
after they were filled with people.
Detroit and the surrounding counties
have about a five million population --
a majority of Michigan's population.
Our state voted for Donald Trump
in 2016, which was unexpected --
we were part of the mid-west states
that got him elected.
I've only been to the UP twice
since moving to Michigan in 1977.
No one with sense would go there
in the winter -- too cold ... and it seems
to be getting colder, rather than warmer.
For the Lower Peninsula:
this winter included the coldest three
consecutive weeks I've ever experienced,
during my 40 years living in southeastern
Michigan (the last half of December 2017,
plus the first week of January 2018).
We turned our thermostat down three
degrees this winter, versus last winter,
yet our natural gas usage was up 25%
from the same four weeks last year
(the four week billing period happened
to include the whole three-week cold spell).
We've had cold weeks before,
and even cold two-week periods,
but we've never had unusual cold
for three consecutive weeks.
If there was significant global warming
in the US since 1975, then I should be
reporting unusually warm spells
during winters, or unusally low snowfall,
or unusually warm winters.
The winter of 2013 / 2014 was unusual.
Our Detroit metropolitan area set an
all-time record for snow that winter.
I'll never forget that, because the wife,
who likes to shovel the driveway snow
for exercise, needed help for the first
time since 1987.
That winter was the first in 27 years
with more snow than she could handle.
She had to recruit me to help.
It was also really cold for one week
in early February 2014.
So far below zero, that for the first time
since 1987, the cast iron water meter
in our garage froze, and cracked.
It was repaired the next morning,
but the water company told me
I would have to pay them $300
for a new meter, because I
allowed my garage to get too cold!
So I had a new water meter,
still-frozen pipes, and a $300 bill.
I had to rent the biggest propane gas
heater I could fit in my car trunk,
take it home, and run it for five hours
take it home, and run it for five hours
inside our two-car garage,
until the pipes thawed.
We'll never forget the loud
"explosion" of water through
four open faucets when the water
finally started flowing again!
Of course unusually COLD weather
is just "local weather",
according to the smarmy leftists.
But unusually WARM local weather
is "C-L-I-M-A-T-E C-H-A-N-G-E"
And now, finally, the cold news,
about the Great Lakes,
and the Michigan land near them:
A long-time resident of the UP reported:
1)
Summer 2017 ended with
all the upper Great Lakes
at least a foot above their
long term average levels,
2)
There were huge problems
due to the early ice
in the St Mary's River.
Getting the last freighters
out of Lake Superior,
and into the lower lakes,
caused many problems
for the Coast Guard,
3)
The most northern part
of the Lower Peninsula
had an amazing 100 inches
of snow by January 10, 2018, and
4)
In early January 2018,
the Leelanau Peninsula,
poking out into Great Lake Michigan,
from the northwestern Lower Peninsula,
where there are many wineries,
had the coldest contiguous
7-day period in its history.
... And yet we are told
by the smarmy leftists,
that our planet has been
d-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s-l-y
w-a-r-m-i-n-g
since 1975,
well on the way to
runaway global warming
... so we must do
everything they say
... and not because
they can do anything
about climate change.
What leftists really want
is a bigger, more powerful government,
staffed with leftists, working hard
to micro-manage people's lives !
Leftists believe people who do
not prefer socialism, like they do,
are yahoos who drive pickup trucks,
drink beer, and burp all day --
obviously too stupid to manage
their own lives!
The coming climate change catastrophe,
that will never come, is the biggest
junk science fraud in human history.
Not as deadly as eugenics junk science,
especially loved in Germany,
that led to nine million executions.
But almost as long-lasting as Lysenkoism
junk science, in the USSR, that retarded
their agriculture science for almost 45 years!
The climate science fraud is used to
justify more powerful governments,
micro-managing people,
and taxing / managing
private sector energy usage,
based on the fake claim that the
government must do this
'to save the planet for our children'.
Climate change alarmism
is a devious strategy
is a devious strategy
used to gain political power,
make money in government-subsidized
alternative energy companies,
and control people.
There are government bureaucrats
with science degrees involved,
but almost no real science.
The climate change fraud
consists mainly of wild guess
predictions of the future climate.
wrong for 30 years so far,
but never mind that --
-- the pro-liberal biased media
has always ignored the decades of
grossly inaccurate predictions,
because you don't need to know
that inconvenient truth !
The actual world climate
has been wonderful
since the very cold late 1600s,
and getting better
for over 400 years
for over 400 years
... except for
the COLD weather this year !
the COLD weather this year !
The climate does not need "fixing".
Not that anything could be done,
even if it did need "fixing".
The world does not need lying "leftists"
demanding that everyone does as they say,
without question, to "Save the Earth".
Their claim that CO2 controls the average
temperature is science-free nonsense,
repeated so often that many gullible
people believe it!
Richard Greene
February 20, 2018
Bingham Farms, Michigan