Yesterday morning I was playing water polo and enjoying the warmth of the happy, friendly indigenous people who live in the overheated Yucatan Peninsula.
This morning I was enjoying the company of angry, frustrated, frozen Marylanders stuck in a massive traffic jam on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
Climate experts say that cold climates are better, and that we should destroy the economy in a mindless, superstitious effort to keep them cold.
“It sucks, because the my first night here I got more than 300 mosquito bites on my feet and ankles and spent most of the trip suffering from that. I also broke three toes and got a gash in the bottom of my foot playing beach volleyball. Yesterday was the first day which I wasn’t in pain.”
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That sounds pretty horrific to me………
The first week wasn’t great. The last few days were fantastic though.
When you get older the body needs more time to acclimate.
But I suppose the dogs were happy to see you again ?
Yes, we were all very happy to see eachother.
ps you never sleep ?
What the heck are you doing in Baltimore(cold shivers down my back). Shouldn’t you be getting back to Colorado.
ya…I struggled as soon as I got back from Phoenix the other week….so I booked my next trip back already….silly me for not enjoying -30 when I could suffer in the +30’s!! I guess I really should have bought my winter retirement home in Winnipeg instead of Phoenix…
Lance,
Don’t look now but it just started raining here in Phoenix! But I hear you, it is just shamefully nice here this time of year.
Back in the day when I actually half-way listened to the Global Warming drivel; that would be pre-Climategate, I used to wonder how slightly warmer temperature, primarily at night, in the mid-latitudes, somehow constituted a “crisis”. Too bad it was all just exaggeration, speculation, and political nonsense. As far as I can see, a little warming would be good…if only!
First, I hope you dealt with sand gnats, not skeeters.
Noseeums in my neck of the woods.
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/aquatic/biting_midges.htm
Second, we returned to November, not January, in Florida.
Amazingly, or not, all of the visitors here seem very happy to be here too.
When the air temperature is really hot (over 100F), you can always elect a low-exertion lifestyle at no additional cost. You know, go indoors, stay in the shade, spritz yourself with water, sample a tropical beverage.
When it gets cold (below 20 F), you can either freeze or pay someone to provide heat so you don’t freeze. OK, you could also burn wood you had previously stockpiled, wear sweaters, or snuggle up to some geothermal vent-thingie.
Adapting to heat is relatively easy; adapting to cold is expensive/hard/exhaustive.
What’s your choice?
There are some advantages to the cold… assuming that you use it to justify snuggling up to something other than a geothermal vent. There are some very interesting ways to keep warm.
Well, if you have seen the weather map for Minnesota- need I say more?
I’m looking forward to the summer already. Winter didn’t even start yet.
As for adapting to any change. Don’t you think people would want to pay a tax to build a dike or what ever, to stay dry, when it actually happens? Or to dig a canal or build a water desalter when necessary? The precaution principle wrt climate is such utter BS; it’s formed from a mindset of total control.
People have occupied any place on earth to live. Big Government and it’s henchmen are the only things that keeps us from normal evolving into the next fase of technology and matching civilization.
”The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
”Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” ` Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies,
Author: “Population Bomb”, “Ecoscience” Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren was his co-author.
”My three goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with its full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
”A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Ted Turner,
Founder of CNN and major UN donor
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”. ~ Brock Chisholm Director of the UN from 1948–53
He also said:
”The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy”. as the , first Director General of the World Health Organisation (It is their idea of ‘rational thinking’ of course.)
”The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization we have in the US. We have to stop these third World countries right where they are.” ~ Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
”Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” ~ Professor Maurice King
(H/T to Jimbo)
They truly hate (and fear) ‘ THE GREAT UNWASHED AS THEY CALL US.’
Someone needs to clue in the blacks and Hispanics and other ethnic groups that Obama’s Science Czar does not see them as human, much less as equals and Obama probably has the same opinion.
John R Holdren and Paul Ehrlich
From the Population Research Institute
Are they suggesting that abortion be allowed up to and including the 4th trimester?
Unfortunately yes:
Obama loves him some Planned Parenthood too.
Obama and the libz long term designs are less obvious than their short term pandering as concerns blacks & hispanics.
Obama and the Elite love viewing the rest of humanity as nothing more than cattle. (See Chattel)
That was the whole goal of the “Animal Rights” movement. to bring humans down to the level of animals in terms of rights.
And that’s why I moved from Indiana to Florida.
O/T but heart warming (even to my atheist husband**) Christians Now Outnumber Communists in China: Churches are overflowing, and communist leaders are furious.
**Christian atheism is a theological position in which the belief in the God of Christianity is rejected or absent but the moral teachings of Jesus are followed.
Were you in Cancun ? My in-laws just came back from there. Thought it was fab.
I wasn’t in Cancun. I was in Playa del Carmen