Happy Earth Day

Today is Earth Day.

The whole debate over global warming and the "save the planet" stuff started me thinking. We have all this irrefutable evidence that within a matter of years we will be buried by the oceans or just burn up from really hot temperatures.

About a century ago, there was irrefutable evidence that Jews were lesser humans. Biologists, social scientists, psychiatrists and others in the science profession did numerous studies and conducted wide ranging research and drew the conclusion that Jews were inferior to just about every other race on the planet.

One hundred years later, we look back on those studies and roll our eyes at the methods they used. They did such things as measure the size of a person's head, which was thought to measure intelligence. They examined every part of the body. They did (what we would consider crazy and unethical) medical experiments on people. We now realize that the science they were practicing was junk science or pseudo-science.

It all makes me wonder what those living a century from now will think about our science of global warming. Do you notice that it is no longer called "global warming"? Recent studies have shown that the temperature is leveling off over the past ten years. It also seems ridiculous to talk about global warming when the upper Midwest and northeast faced record cold and snowfall this past winter. It is now called "climate change," which is a convenient catch-all no matter what direction the weather is heading (more storms, fewer storms, higher temperatures, lower temperatures).

Think about this when you go off to hug a tree.