Some years ago, I was the lead programmer for a small software company started by a couple in their garage — literally. As the wife side of the team once said during a looooong day, “This would be a great business if not for the @#$%ing customers.”
Okay, I’m glad I have customers, but one of them has me swamped tonight and it’s going to be a late one. Next week it’s off to grandma’s. So Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Festivus, etc.
Back in 2011.
Well, can’t resist one smarty-pants observation before going: Tennessee is having its coldest December since 1942. Florida recently broke a record-cold temperature that stood for 160 years. Predictions are that this will be the third winter in a row with below-normal temperatures.
So I think I know why Al Gore moved to Santa Barbara … the cold weather in Tennessee was freezing his brain and making it difficult for him to preach about the dangers of global warming.
Now I’m going.
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Jeez, Tom – don’t you KNOW that global warming is causing these record low temps and all the snow we’ve been getting here in northeast Ohio? Sheesh.
On a different note, I feel your blogging pain. I just called all five of our kids and asked them to guest post on my blog over the next two weeks. Should be interesting.
I’d let my daughter write guest posts, but I’m afraid they’d simply recount the adventures of Hannah Montana.
Shhh!! I’ve bought 3 snowmobiles this year and i’m trying to keep people hanging onto that global warming thing so the market stays low until i’m ready to sell.
Happy holidays to you and your family Tom.
Thanks for all the great blogs in 2010 and here’s to learning even more in 2011 (just one year left until this whole thing ends anyway!)
I hope you make a killing on those snowmobiles. We managed to find sleds this year. Last year the girls went “sledding” in cardboard boxes.
Merry Christmas and happy low-carb day Tom! We’ll miss yah while you’re off partying!
Merry Christmas to you as well.
Yeah, it was 28 in Jacksonville, FL the other day, where my son and DiL have moved. My DiL was hoping for snow! I’ll be driving down there for Christmas in a couple days and will have to pack my down coat and woolies.
My girls were delighted when it snowed here. I’m teaching my wife to act southern and stock up on canned goods whenever there’s snow in the forecast.
Tom,
Just watched your film Fathead on Netflix and I loved it, especially the mathematical detective work on teh 5K/day calories that Spurlock touted. Having folks like you and Taubes and others raise the flag of skepticism is a good thing. And especially when this skepticism is based on calm, reasoned observation of data.
I would like to suggest you apply the same observational skills to global warming, climate change or whatever its called. The last climate year was tied for the warmest on record, despite our own anecdotal experiences in North America. “Follow the money” is good advice and should be applied uniformly.
regards
I have applied my observational skills to global warming. That’s why I believe the slight warming over the past 100 years is absolutely nothing unusual. (I was aided in this belief by the established fact that the slight warming of the past 100 years is absolutely nothing unusual. The earth has been warming and cooling in cycles pretty much forever.)
If you follow the money in that field, you’ll find that there are $10 billion research dollars available for scientists who agree to scare people into believing we’re warming the planet. Scientists who disagree, by contrast, often face career suicide. The term “denialist” wasn’t created by people interested in a genuine debate. The governments pushing the scaremongering agenda all stand to benefit from raking in carbon taxes. Al Gore made millions setting up and selling a carbon-credit-trading company. Enron and George Soros were both big backers of the global-warming theory, and both set themselves up to benefit immensely. Yes, let’s definitely follow the money.
Two books I recently read on science itself — as opposed to taking on a particular scientific discipline — both gave an honest summary of climate science: we don’t yet understand a fraction of the variables that determine climate, and therefore we can’t say with anything approaching scientific certainty that humans are warming the planet.