It’s Climate Change, Not Global Warming

            I, for one, am so tired of people who, when it gets extremely cold, complain that global warming is nonsense. Someone used this term initially and, unfortunately, it stuck, no matter how often it was corrected by scientists and meteorologists everywhere.

            There was another one of these fools in the ‘Voice of the People’ section in the New York Daily News on February 18. This is someone who does know the difference between climate and weather. The latter is in one specific location is short-lived. The latter is over a large area and is of a more permanent duration.

            Global warming indicates that the temperature around the world is rising and it cannot and does not get cold anywhere. This is absolute nonsense.

            Without espousing the entire theory, climate change indicates that the climate in large areas around the world changes over time. If it’s humid and temperate in a large area at a certain time, it can become more of a hot desert if the climate changes. Temperatures in some areas of the world will rise over time and in others it will decrease. Since records have been kept since the 1800’s, the average global temperature has steadily risen since the 1990’s, and it’s going higher every year.

At the moment it is extremely cold in the northeast of the United States where we have to deal with the Siberian Express, a weather pattern that originates in Siberia and comes through along with high winds, drastically dropping the wind chill. If you check the temperatures throughout the Northern Hemisphere for January 2015, you would discover that  the northeast United States, Greenland and north central Asia are the only places that are very cold. All other places are above normal and much of Asia is way above normal. This is a signal of a change in climate.

            Anyone can research this theory in more detail anywhere on the internet. I strongly suggest that everyone does research it.

War’s End – Really??

            A couple days ago marked the end of NATO’s involvement in the War in Afghanistan that had been raging for 13 long years. But is it really over?

            The United States is leaving 10,000 troops of about 13,000 troops overall in Afghanistan. These troops are supposed to act as teachers and assistants for the Afghan military.

            This continues long standing tradition of U. S. involvement is war for the past 70 years. The U. S. fights a war and leaves troops ad infinitum. Germany, South Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan. We have left troops in all of them. I, for one, fail to understand the need to keep troops in these countries, especially after some of them become our allies. For a short while maybe, but for what amounts to forever?

            Aside from the perpetual presence of the troops, there is also the staggering cost of keeping them there throughout time. Stopping this would save money which could be put to better use at home.

 

            Message to the government: please don’t tell us the way is over when you maintain troops where the war was fought.