Suicide Bomber by Paul Nowak

Tax Season

To my one faithful reader (thanks dad), tax season has arrived and posting will more than likely not resume until later in April. As a matter of fact the world does not seem to exist outside of my office. At this point we could have killed or capture Bin Laden and his happy band of merry men and I would not know. Life is now consist of numbers and deadlines.

So happy trails until we meet again.

Dead Or Alive by Paul Nowak

Another Prediction of Dire Climate Change

Recently I read an article in Newsweek's Science section concerning predictions of severe climate change about to beset the earth. In the article climatologist say "there are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically the changes may protend a drastic decline in food production with serious political implications for every nation on earth." According to climate experts the drop in food production could occur as soon as ten years.

Climatologist say the "evidence to support these predictions has now begun to accummulate so massively that meteorologist are hardpressed to keep up with it." Just last spring "there was the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 hundred people and caused a half of billion dollars' worth of damamge in thirteen U.S. states." According to records farmers in "Great Britian have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950".

"To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundemental changes in the world's weather."

I know many of you are thinking ok what is new in this article that merits a post. Actually the article was written for the April 28 th, 1975 Newsweek by Peter Gwynne regarding the immediate onset of the coming mini ice age. The article said that scientist are unanimous in the view that the current weather tend will have dire political and agricultural impacts for the rest of the century.

Now we fast forward to the year 2006 and so far we haven't seen the good old US turned into a play land for polar bears. Todays current state of fear is concern over global warming. Nasa says the world's glacier are in retreat. Al Gore (now that is a source of authority) say the automobile is the most dangerous thing man has invented. Other climatologist say the oceans' levels are rising and are about to turn coastal cities like Houston into modern day Atlantis.

Global warming is accepted as fact by the mass media and many American citizens. A good portion of our national GDP is spent to prevent it and yet we really don't know if it is really going to happen. Remember scientist in 1975 were predicting a coming ice age. I am sure they were certain that it was an event that could not be avoided unless drastic action was taken by the worlds governments. However they were wrong. Why do we think that the scientist predicting the immediate onset of global warming are correct. They are basing their predictions on weather models that to date have not proven to be totally accurate.

The worlds climate is a complicated system that is constantly changing to achieve balance. There are so many factors that impact climate change that it makes it impossible to predict with certainty what the future may hold. Just as the scientist in the 70's were wrong there is a strong proability that they could be wrong now.

Dean Needs A Reality Check

Howard Dean, DNC chairman, this week said the Republicans are weak on security. That is like one of the guys from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" calling Arnold Schwartznagger a "girlie man". I believe Mr. Dean has a short memory, let's review;

• The Democrates were against renewal of of the Patriot Act
• The Democrates were against NSA surveillance program listening to Al Qaeda operatives
• The Democrates have been the anti-war party

It is a little hard to get past their track record and believe they are the party to protect the country's security. Remember they gave us John Kerry as a Presidential candidate and he wanted to conduct a more sensitive war in Iraq.

The Press Miss the Big Picture