Every once in a great while I find myself feeling very bored. No particular reason. I just do. Most recently I came up with the idea of addressing a particularly intractable problem whenever I felt this way. That's what I did just tonight in fact.
I figured I'd start off with a real toughie. No "Is there a God?" stuff for me. Pure fluff. I was goin' deep, real deep. Down and dirty, no holds barred serious stuff.
The problem I selected was to try and figure out just exactly what the Teabaggerz were talking about when they claimed that there was no such thing as man made Global Warming. Yep. In fact, they claimed there was no Global Warming at all! And we didn't do it, and you couldn't prove a thing, and besides, everybody else was doin' it too, so there.
So I figured "How the hell can I possibly be bored workin' on sumpun like that?" I went right to work.
It all boiled down to this, the Baggerz insisted that the higher measured average temps around the globe were all due to errors in the data being sampled and collected. So I decided to take a look into their claims.
I researched the hell outta it all, two websites, maybe three. Enough. What I learned was interesting, verrrry interesting. The Baggerz contend that a whole lotta NOAA weather station data gathering points have been corrupted by such things as proximity to buildings and parking lots and highways and such that skew the data samples higher. Amazingly, none have been identified as having fallen into shaded areas of buildings or protected by the leaves of growing trees.
Anyways, I looked into that all, and ya know, by golly, they're right that there are a lot more buildings and parking lots and such near a whole lotta the data gathering sites, things that weren't there when the sites were originally built. The Baggerz even posted some 8 by 10 color glossy photo pictures with a paragraph on the back of each one to substantiate their claims. How do ya argue with that?
Yep, buildings and parking lots and highways and all manner of things everywhere that skew the results of the data being gathered and make it "appear" as if there is sucha thing as man made Global Warming, when really there ain't no such thing.
So if we'd just tear down all them buildings and tear up all them parking lots and highways, and park all them cars and plant trees and grass and such, then we'd see just how right the Teabaggerz were and......
Well, you get the idea. Yep.
Now I'm bored again.