“This figure
shows how average temperatures in the lower 48 states have changed since 1901.
Surface data come from land-based weather stations, while satellite
measurements cover the lower troposphere, which is the lowest level of the
Earth's atmosphere. "UAH" and "RSS" represent two different
methods of analyzing the original satellite measurements. This graph uses the
1901 to 2000 average as a baseline for depicting change. Choosing a different
baseline period would not change the shape of the trend.”
Cassi Creek: I opened the local newspaper this morning and
sat down to a breakfast of local letters to the editor. There’s enough idiocy evident in that section
of the paper to cause one to wonder if funds designated for public education
would be better spent to another purpose.
There was a letter claiming that the Supreme Court is not
responsible, under the Constitution, for determining the constitutionality of
laws. Obviously the writer dozed through
junior high school civics classes or simply did not attend those classes.
Another writer equates the SCOTUS affordable care decision
with the downfall of these United States because the government may now “take
away all our freedoms by making us do whatever government chooses.” Yes, thanks to requiring people to purchase
health insurance, we can now be told what to say, what to eat, and what to
study, and where to go. Another
conspiracy theory bred in the failure to read the textbooks for Civics.
The final letter was the standard list of lies,
fabrications, hidden lab findings and buried inconclusive data that is supposed
to prove that climactic change is a manufactured crisis intended to hand over
vast sums of money to researchers and
NASA conspirators – the same people who “falsified the moon landings.”
It is a wonderful world out there among the conspiracy
theorists. I can hardly wait for the
latest videos of Elvis to surface.
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