Climate change?

 

Climate change is a term we hear more of lately. This year alone, countries around the world are setting temperature records. In the US, we are having unprecedented flooding and are setting heat records almost daily and it’s all being blamed on climate change.

I think a lot of things are blamed on climate change when there are other explanations.

There was a volcano that erupted on January 15, 2022, in the Pacific that caused a tsunami and a sonic boom that circled the Earth twice, and was described by the local government as "an unprecedented disaster." It increased the water vapor in the stratosphere by about 10% and scientist said it could increase surface temperatures for years. So, it’s increasing temperatures for years and all that water has to come back down to earth sooner or later.  I wonder if this is driving all the record setting temperatures and flooding, we have had this year and not climate change?

Not one politician or scientist has mentioned it that I can find. Wonder why that is? Could it be that they can’t get money for it if it was caused a natural event?

We are being told by our politicians and scientist that since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels (like coal, oil and gas) and that we need to convert to electric power to save the planet.

When I was a little boy in Louisiana it would get cold during the winter, and I can remember freezing my but off for weeks at a time. Then a few years later, if we got four or five days when the temperature would get below 32 degrees during the winter, it was an unusual event. Now it’s going back to more colder days. I don’t blame that on climate change, that’s just the way earth changes. Just look around. We have deserts that were once oceans and rain forest that was once deserts. Why is that and what happened?

The thing that I don’t understand about all this is the planet has gone through many climate changes over the last 4.5 billion years or so. People have only been here for about 190,000 years, so what caused all those other climate changes? It wasn’t us and maybe it shouldn’t be blamed on us this time.