The weather?

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It is still moody here. We receive a few warm and sunny days and then fall back into overcast with occasional rain. Since we still have serious snowpack in some parts of the state, this is possibly best. Too much rain, of course, only adds to the flooding. But too quick of a warmup will lead to a sudden deluge of melt water. Not that we can really pick or choose. It is more that we are just dodging bullets right now. My area is fine, more or less. The only problems we might face is having access to the closest shopping areas restricted and be required to drive longer for groceries, appointments, and such. At least, from what I can tell. And I don't see that happening. Other areas are simply being hit, spillways are being used, levies are sometimes failing sometimes being inundated. On the good side, for the first time in a long time wells are full and the Great Salt Lake is picking up water.

There are several flood zones throughout the U.S. From Iowa to one or both of the Dakotas, and of course in the South. Other areas are continuing to suffer from drought, and the fires that go with them. Actually the southern part of Utah is among those areas. Arizona, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and many others continue to burn or suffer drought. I am not sure about the rest of the world though. And, no, this isn't man-made. Some of the academics and Russians understand this to be a solar event. We have just gone through a very long drought of solar flares, among other cycles. Not only did that affect temperatures, it affected many things. It was actually affecting short-wave radio, decreasing it's effectiveness and causing some to quit the hobby altogether. This is ending. Now we are facing global cooling. By the way, global warming (small as it actually was) most likely creates weather stability. Global cooling does the opposite. If you thought the weatherman was an idiot before, wait. You haven't seen anything yet.

This whole AGW, or whatever they are calling it now, simply reminds me of the pagan belief that bad weather meant people needed to be sacrificed. It was mere superstition regarding natural events which lead to a decrease in the population through sacrifice. While modern pagans abuse science to their means, the results are going to be similar. Degrading the economies of free states, building up barbarians, spreading industrialization to nations who are not yet prepared to deal with it, all will lead to social, military, civil, and other disasters. Worse, it won't change the natural events which will unfold, it might accelerate them. For some of them, that is the plan. For others, it is merely (another) unintended consequence. Much like banning DDT, trying to not allow chlorine to clean water in 3rd world nations, and other such. Why, they don't even allow US grain to be given to starving people because it has been genetically modified and there is concern that this will get into the starving people's exports, then be sent to Europe. Oh, shiver at the thought. Amazing. Unintended? I have to think that word may not mean what they think it means.

Ah well, get ready for the cold, and the unstable weather patterns that will form from that. Understand the economy is caving. Figure out how to live much more humbly. And learn to tune out "scientists" who make more money and receive more grants when people are afraid. I haven't seen a good figure on how much of the economy has been dumped into bad science, money that could have much more wisely been spent in the private economy for real needs and wants, and the chasing away of business through their "work", but my guess is it has been a huge bite. Don't have a job? Thank a scientist. If the rules and regulations they push haven't killed your job, or the politics they have supported haven't killed your job, then the imposition of those things which have forced your job overseas has. Big bite indeed.