Okay – that was the attention getting headline for this short dissertation.
I have been an avid observer of world news for many years – there is nothing funnier than real life, folks. Even today one of my favorite television shows is the BBC World News, aired at 10:00 pm weeknights in my local market. As I recall, and as being recently brought to the attention of Congress over the past few months, we were fearful of global cooling in the 1970’s. We were headed for another Ice Age, mostly due to our collective irreverence toward the environment and poking a hole in the ozone layer through indiscriminate release of fluorocarbons (Freon for our air conditioners among other things) into the atmosphere. Shame on us, but as Earthlings who walk on two feet and sport thumbs at the end of our arms, we came up with a solution. Stop releasing the fluorocarbons and the hole will heal. Ta-da! It did – the hole healed and now we have our greenhouse back again. Oops – time for global warming - vicious cycle this environment-climate thing.
So . . . many of you already see where I am headed with this. Yep –
I have been an avid observer of world news for many years – there is nothing funnier than real life, folks. Even today one of my favorite television shows is the BBC World News, aired at 10:00 pm weeknights in my local market. As I recall, and as being recently brought to the attention of Congress over the past few months, we were fearful of global cooling in the 1970’s. We were headed for another Ice Age, mostly due to our collective irreverence toward the environment and poking a hole in the ozone layer through indiscriminate release of fluorocarbons (Freon for our air conditioners among other things) into the atmosphere. Shame on us, but as Earthlings who walk on two feet and sport thumbs at the end of our arms, we came up with a solution. Stop releasing the fluorocarbons and the hole will heal. Ta-da! It did – the hole healed and now we have our greenhouse back again. Oops – time for global warming - vicious cycle this environment-climate thing.
So . . . many of you already see where I am headed with this. Yep –
We need our hole back.
I am not suggesting that we go back to releasing fluorocarbons, but a nice trap door would seem to be in order. Sound too simple? Simple can be a good thing. Think about it – monitor the balance between cooling and warming, then regulate it by opening and closing the trap door in our ozone layer. A possible solution? If you think so, talk it up. Let’s call it Environmental Climatological Regulation – the salvation for generations to come. Just a thought. Peace.
