Lately, it's been cold in Morgan Hill. And, the rain has been abundant. In fact, our seasonal average rainfall is from 98 percent to 120 percent depending on the area of Santa Clara County. As far as temperature, we seem to have experienced a fairly mild year.
But, that wasn't the prediction. On Jan. 4, 2007, BBC News reported "2007 to be 'warmest on record.' "
So, what happened?
In South America, last year was one of the coldest ever observed. In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years. Chile had the roughest winter, according to the agricultural minister, in the past 50 years. Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder. According to a University of Oklahoma temperature specialist David Deming, "unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007." Quoting Jeff Jacoby, "The Boston Globe," "Given the number of world wide cold events, it is no surprise that 2007 didn't turn out to be the warmest ever. In fact, 2007's global temperature was essentially the same as that in 2006 and 2005 and 2004, and every year back to 2001. The record set in 1998 has not been surpassed."
Now, it's even snowing in Baghdad!
Growing up in northern Oklahoma, I became accustomed to mowing our lawn in the early 1940s. I had to mow both the front yard and back. However, for most summers, the yard turned white. Dried up. And, I didn't have to mow.
However, I distinctly remember those torrid years in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1934, 160 people died from heat causes. And, then, in the worst year, 1936, the national toll was 5,000.
Those also were the dust bowl years that devastated Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas. Wells dried up, trees shed their leaves and rivers, even the Mississippi, were so short of water that you could walk from shore to shore.
In fact, during the "Depression," those hardy pioneers who had come out to warm the central plains in the 1880s suffered this horrible blow. In the early '30s the land dried up. No rain. The crops failed. This great plains area was termed "The Dust Bowl."
In his "Grapes Of Wrath," Steinbeck wrote of these poor farmers, the "Okies," who traveled to California for a new life. Yet, 30 years later in the 1960s and 1970s, the summers were green from rain, rain, rain.
No, I am not a "global warming" advocate. I believe climate is cyclical.
I believe disastrous "global warming" is a hoax and has become a dogma resembling a "religious" faith. Environmentalists continue to harangue Americans about what they drive and purchase, how goods are packaged and disposed of, attempting to make life as "inconvenient" as possible.
Currently, we supposedly have "global warming" say the "environmentalists." Nevertheless, Dr. Fred Singer, the inventor of the ozone measurement instrument, the most eminent environmental scientist of the last 40 years says, "The actual measurements (those instruments we have in the oceans and the heavens) taken with weather satellites, show conclusively that the climate is not warming."
A Washington, D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."
The article mentions "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."
Sound familiar?
"This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."
Here we have a concept, "global warming," grabbed by "environmentalists" as their banner, to promote these revolutionary ideas, without any perusal or proof.
These "environmentalists" point to a study by 2,500 "scientists" - most were social scientists, not meteorologists. Nevertheless, the "warming" study of these multi-national scientists concluded in vague terms, "maybe-if-perhaps-possibly, etc."
Just check out the agenda of all the "global warming" crowd." Underlying every group's stated purpose is really the subtle or underlying agenda to do away with technology and return to the past and the "simple" society. Would you please look at the current run of movies that picture a bleak future caused by the ravages of technology.
Have you ever considered what life might be like, if, through prohibitive laws, they forced us to return to the agrarian 1800s, but controlled by "vegans," tree huggers, and an anthropomorphic society? God, help us.
Technology and conservative common sense must propel mankind to overcome this hoax and persevere on through this century.
Burton Anderson Burton Anderson, a U.S. Marine veteran of the Korean War, has lived in California for about 50 years. He has a background in the aerospace industry. He may be reached at bandtp@aol.com. The Board of Contributors is comprised of local writers whose views appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.
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