I’ve been thinking a lot lately about global warming, particularly since it’s seemed to be one of the coldest winters I’ve experienced since moving to North Carolina. I had hoped that I had left the snow and rough driving conditions back in the Midwest when I made what I thought would be a permanent escape to warmer weather year round. I’ll probably need to go farther south, that is, much farther south.
It just happened that a global warming rally was supposed to be happening during the recent blizzards that have hit the South and the East Coast. Fox’s Neil Cavuto took this opportunity to interview one of the activists associated with the rally. My struggles with the weather made me much more apt to watch something like this and much less offended by Cavuto’s over-the-top mockery.
For the most part Neil Cavuto is a clueless ideologue dick, but in this interview he has a good point on the marketing. All protests in favor of global warming should occur in the hottest months of the year. It helps to draw in people who don’t understand the cyclical nature of local and global warming and cooling patterns. Better yet, the summer months increase the chances that there will be a major hurricane somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico that you can use to garner more attention for your claims, never mind the fact that hurricanes typically happen in the summer months and can get quite big without the benefits of a climatological crisis.
As far as I’m concerned, neither side is helping me out. If it’s getting warmer, why am I not seeing it? If theres nothing to global warming, why is it so damn cold? Nobody’s saying how we should survive these alleged conditions. All I want is to be safe and warm. I guess I’ll ignore the snow outside, stay in and put an extra blanket on top of me.
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