“Dangerous heat index. Outdoor exposure should be limited.”
This is the story of Baltimore’s summer this year. Everyone who called this year’s snow “piles of global warming” with snark and sheeplike repetition: up yours.
I wonder what all the dummies who referred to the mounds of snow in Maryland this winter as “piles of global warming” think about the boiling temperatures and a heatwave we haven’t seen in, literally, years. I guess a radio personality will have to tell them what slogan to blather and bleat about the heat now.
Everywhere in Baltimore, we hear the sarcastic phrase, “Piles of Global Warming.” I just thought I’d clog up the internetz with the correct adage:
Piles of Climate Change.
Snow doesn’t disprove Global Warming. It proves (or at least works toward it — I realize that it does not constitute a real proof) Climate Change. Sorta.
The refusal to acknowledge the “new” popular terminology for how we’re fucking up the planet does go a long way toward proving that denials of Climate Change have nothing to do with science and a lot to do with habit, politics and curmudeonliness — maybe even frustration that this state and city lean to the left just a little, sometimes. But I think I’m overstepping myself there. Aside from spending a lot of money and our high taxes, you’d think we didn’t live in a blue state sometimes though.
I’m getting extremely tired of hearing morons talking about the recent cold snap as if it disproves “global warming” or something. “The Simpsons” spoofed this recently. It’s bad enough when people make a matter of science into a political position. “I am a conservative, and other conservatives don’t buy into the fact that we are destroying the climate and planet”. Ergo, “I don’t believe in global warming, and I think Al Gore looks fat lately.”
For one, that term is dated. Okay, it’s called “Climate Change” now by most people who pay attention and worry about it. We call it that because stupid people, every winter, say, “Oh, so much for Al Gore and his global warming.” If you go outside when it’s snowing and cold in fucking January and think that disproves global warming, you prove that you don’t understand it or even the basic concept of seasons.
And by attempting to disprove people who have actually studied this wrong by being stupid, you prove that you are an asshole. Yes. If you attempt to outsmart people you can’t outsmart by playing a game that is not the real game, you are an asshole. Snow in January doesn’t prove anything, and if you got off of your ass to study what you’re so worried about disproving — or passed first grade — you’d know it’s nothing unusual. Hell, snow in July doesn’t prove that “global warming” is wrong either.
And, for the record, global temperatures are in fact rising. That means that it could get colder in Baltimore forever, while temperatures rise everywhere else. Yes, global warming could make everyone sweat but you, and it would still exist, still be true, still validate good science in the face of stupid assholes who want to feel good about driving their fuel-sucking big trucks around.
If you’re so worried about “global warming” being untrue, just be honest. Just admit that you think you’re better than everyone else and should be allowed to kill the planet. Admit it publicly, on a T-shirt in clear print. Leave it on your tombstone for your progeny to read, so they’ll know you cared more about yourself and keeping up your habits than you did about them. Do it.
Or, if you don’t want to admit that this is not about science, not about truth, but instead about lining the pockets of your leaders and their friends and about you never having to change your behavior — if you don’t want to admit it, you could just shut the fuck up.
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