Global Warming

I'm currently reading Dan Rooney's autobiography (well, as told to....) and I came across an interesting nugget of information. The game time temperature of the 1972 AFC Championship Game against the Miami Dolphins in Pittsburgh was 72 degrees. It was warmer that day in Pittsburgh than it was in Miami. Do you think people were running around screaming about global warming back then? That was on New Year's Eve. If it reached 72 next week in the 'Burgh, that's all we'd hear about. Another thing I never realized, Roberto Clemente died the day after that loss. I'll talk about the book after I'm finished with it. So far, it's pretty good. Back to global warming, I don't deny it lock, stock and barrel, what do I know? It's just that I don't buy all the "doomsayers" about how bad it's going to be in the very near future. It's like Dennis Miller says - the global temperature of the Earth is about 1.5 degrees warmer now than it was 100 years ago. Are we then trusting that the good 'ol folks of 1907 were keeping a perfect record of the temperature? From what I understand they were still pooping outside in a wood hut built around a hole in the ground. It is possible that whomever was in charge of recording the temperatures for that day got a little confused between 84-86 since they didn't have digital thermometers that I'm aware of. Calm down....I'm just saying.

Global Cooling - Act Locally!

How does the old saying go? April showers bring snow plowers? I don't know about you, but I'm getting sick to death of hearing about Global Cooling on TV all the time. "Global Cooling" this and "Global Cooling" that. It's crazy. Every semi-political show I watch or every topical piece I read - I have to have Global Cooling shoved down my throat. And I just love the facts that these idiots use to make their case! In this week's Sport's Illustrated, there is a blurb in the popular "Go Figure" column where it states that in 2006, exactly 10 MLB games were started with a game time temperature of below 45 degrees. So far in 2007, there have been 34 such games, with more to come. That doesn't prove a damn thing. These Global Cooling nuts don't realize that 1000 years ago there was a year that was colder than this year. I don't know about you, but I am not going take suggestions from celebrities to go out and buy a Hummer or a Suburban in an effort to help heat up the planet. I like cold weather! I grew up in the mountains south of Pittsburgh. I want it to keep getting colder! Next year they may move the start of baseball season to May in order to duck the chilly night games. And what about the lunatic fringe that thinks it's actually getting WARMER every year? Nothing like having your head buried in the sand, huh? I just had a young college student the other day knock on our door because they saw we recycled and asked us to please just throw everything away. The belief is that by not recycling, we can help heat the planet up a fraction of 1 percent. Come on, who are you trying to kid? Me throwing away my Diet Coke cans isn't going to change anything! I don't care if the planet freezes over. It's my grandchildren's children's problem, not mine, although I'm a little upset that now it looks like I'll have to take a Parka with me to North Carolina in June...but whatever - I don't leave the house anyway. We have a heated pool in the back yard, but I'm not going to turn the heat on just to piss off the people who WANT me to use more energy. Screw them.