Neanderpundit

When I was around eighteen years old, I learned that engines didn’t grow in oak trees. I hung many a chain over many a branch hoping for a nice small block, or a new slant six for the old Valiant but never had any luck with it. I remember driving through new neighborhoods asking dad “there are no trees. Where do the motors go?”

I was nearly fourteen before I understood they were saying “Void where prohibited”. prior to that I thought they were saying “Boys were prohibited” All those contests I missed out on. Damn.

I was twenty one when I discovered the way to cure a nymphomaniac was to marry her.

I was almost eleven before I realized my sister wasn’t just a kid mom was babysitting for the neighbors. Thing was, I got slapped every time I asked “when are we gonna send her back?”. You’d think I’d have figured it out sooner.

We moved nine times int he first eight years of my life. Dad would rent a place cheap, (in those days cheap was thirty, thirty five bucks a month) and fix/clean/upgrade it out of pocket, then the landlord would show up and say “This place is too nice for thirty bucks a month. Your rent is now $90 a month” and we’d move. I thought you HAD to move every year.

I was ten when I learned Gary Miller had pubic hair and I didn’t. Freaked me out, he looked like some kind of animal. I plucked my pubes until I was fourteen. THen it just got to be too much

I was forty three when I learned not to drink the WHOLE bottle of whiskey at once.

I wonder what things I’ll learn next?

if you live in the Atlanta area, is to go see this

Jenny, my longtime dear friend and proprieter of “In a Sentimental Mood” is a friend of the band, go see the show, listen to some fine music, and have a good time. If you’ve never heard the William Tell Overture played on a squeezebox, you’re in for a treat. It’s a cheap date for a friday night, and a good time. Say hi to Jenny if you can.

Update! Money Back Guarantee! If you go to the show and don’t like it, I will personally refund your subscription fees for Neanderpundit, plus send you a really cute picture of my dog licking his nuts.
Void where prohibited. Other restrictions may apply.

So I write to GeoMan, this being the gist of my missive:

You have made a great point of explaining the scientific
process, and yet you accept the shibboleth of global warming as
dogma, when it clearly is not.
Less than five hundred years of temperature measurement exist. Less
than a hundred of that with any real level of calibration of the
instrumentation. All of that measurement has taken place on or near
land, with no data for the oceans, which cover a pretty large portion
of the planet. No knowledge of the temperature variation can be given
before that, except as reasonably educated wild ass guesses based on
any number of factors. We don’t know if the earth is warming or
cooling beyond the last hundred or so years, and what is more
important, we have NO idea if warming trends regularly cycle over the
course of thosands of years and by how much. All that exist are
guesses. Basing a theory of global warming on guesses is the worst
kind of junk science. Pity, your site seemed to show such promise.

The response?

All good points, but consider this: we are returning massive amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels. Will this have an impact? I say yes. What do you think?

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