One of the things about being 75 years old at this time in history, is that I have been an interested observer for a lot of stuff that has occurred over my life time. I understand my lifetime is nothing but less than an instant in the grand scope of the history of the universe and the Erf. But still, I can offer at least 65 or so years of observations.
When I was a kid, most people heated with coal and fuel oil. We lived in a lot of smoke in the winter time. We had a lot of snow in the winter and it was really cold most of the time. In the summer it was warm to hot and muggy. It rained periodically. But having said that, over the years we had winters that were not so cold and snowy (Even when it was smoky from coal and fuel oil) and summers that were not so hot and warm and muggy. Sometimes it didn't rain all that often and sometimes it rained frequently. If I could make one unscientific observation for my neighborhood: with all the smoke gone because of natural gas heat, it's easier to breath and it's not so stinky, except for the luddites who heat their homes with wood when natural gas is so cheap and efficient. My conclusion is that weather today is sometimes the same as it was when I was a kid, and also variable as I observed over the years.
I've done a bit of reading about the climate and the over riding jist of what I read seems to indicate that weather is arbitrary at best. At worst there have been cycles of really cold times and really hot times over long periods of time. I wonder if a good deal of guess work is involved there. In other words it's pretty hard even with the evidence that is available to trust what I hear about "climate change" and "global warming". What I do seem to detect is a good bit of evidence that there are motives behind what is broadcast and one can be very suspicious of those motives when one looks into where the conclusions and reports are coming from.
I one doesn't believe that most every thing has been politicized for one reason or another, one, in my view, is a fool.
