Friday, May 21, 2010

Global Cooling, Anyone?

See this editorial from the Investor's Business Daily which reports on a conference at which scientists seriously talked about the possibility/likelihood of global cooling. Here at COTTonLINE we have be speculating about that possibility for a year or more.

One thing you can take as gospel: climates change, and they do it without human intervention. This much is scientific fact. Is it possible that human activity can give naturally occurring climate change a nudge? Sure it is possible, although unproven.

Meantime, in late May it still feels like early spring here in the Rockies. The aspens have begun to leaf out and the robins are nesting but much else is waiting for warmer weather. It is still too cold to sit on our screen porch, the skies are mostly gray and we continue to use our heating system.