Henry's Rant

03-22-07  Let's see...back 20 or 30 years we we're cooling and it was an emergency.  Now we're warming and it is an emergency again.  Big Al says that the earth has a fever.  According to the Earth Policy Institute's statistics the decade of 1890-1899 had an average temperature of 13.69C (the lowest) and the 2000-2004 average temp was 14.59C (the highest).  Lets see thats 0.9C degree rise in 114 years.  OK for all of the non metric folks thats 1.62F degrees.  Hey Goreacle do you take your kid to the hospital every time they have a 100 degree temperature?  Do you panic and get hysterical and say that your child's life is over?  Well maybe you do, but most of do not.   At 100 degrees most of us will simply observe our child and see what happens.  When the temp goes down again we send them out to play again.  If the temp goes up we give them some childrens Tylenol and a glass of orange juice let them rest for a while.  If the fever continues to rise then we call the doctor.   The whole temperature thing is pretty bogus anyway, just ask your doctor.  I'll bet you 10 Carbon Offsets that he will tell you that 98.6F is not an absolute standard for every human and is a guideline.  If you insist on crying wolf or the sky is falling or what ever the current cry of disaster is, I would prescribe an earth size Tylenol suppository and you can put it wher the Sun don't shine.  Let me know Al.