“You think it’s hot. I find it pleasant. But try being an Akita in this desert.”
So: Ignoring whatever might be the cause – which is most emphatically not the point – is the Earth warming? Or is it cooling? How could you tell, one way or another, all on your own, using only your own senses as your measuring apparatus?
Here in the Sonoran Desert, we are gifted in late Summer with a seasonal delight we call the monsoon. South Asians quibble about terminology, but the monsoon used to have an objective definition based on the waxing and waning of persistently high humidity (for us): Wet air for weeks with big storms in the late afternoons and early evenings.
The source of the moisture is the Gulf of Mexico. When the Gulf gets very warm in late Summer, the airflow moves from East – around Florida, up the coast and off to Europe, the Gulf Stream – to West – across West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, all the way to Las Vegas and Palm Springs.
That’s the monsoon, for the whole of the desert Southwest. England and France flock to the beaches in August because their bad weather comes our way for a while. In Phoenix, the monsoon used to commence around July 15th, ending around September 15th. That rule-of-thumb has been failing for a while, such that they revised the official definition to hide all the missing moisture.
What is happening, observably to the senses and apprehensible in secondary consequences – e.g., changes in barometric pressure put my guitars out of tune – is cooling, not warming. The Gulf gets warm later and for a shorter span of time, sending less moisture West and more East – not out and under Florida but to New Orleans and Houston and points north. Pennsylvania and New York are knee deep in water right now that would have come here twenty years ago.
All that is moot, though: All testimony is unreliable, government-funded testimony the least so, but the argument is not about whether the climate is changing but why humanity deserves to be perpetually imprisoned on the pretext of the moment. The virus won’t hold up forever, but climate change is so slow you have to be paying close attention to see it.
Even so: Warming would be good, contrary to the hysteria, since longer growing seasons leave everyone better fed. Obviously, you should not take my word for anything, either, but the evidence I can gather on my own argues that cooling – along with its predictable privations – is what is actually happening.
In other news:
Housing Wire: August jobs numbers are bad, but there’s a silver lining.
CNBC: Homebuyers aren’t taking climate change seriously, says Redfin CEO. Just as seriously as Obama. Plainly, everyone else also knows that Climate-Change-Marxism is a hoax. Why Glenn Kelman is singing this tune is anyone’s guess. Is he nose-blind to Marxism? Does he think fear sells real estate? Is addicted to being on TV? Phone home, Glenn. Are you captured – or just capsized?
Paul Bedard: Regrets, you’ve had a few: 20% want Biden vote back.
Breitbart.com: Pandemic Poll: 71% of Voters Favor ‘School Freedom,’ 66% of Democrats.
