CLIMATE CHANGE?

   Climate change advocates run around wringing their hands with their hair on fire.  They say the world as we know it today will cease to exist in twelve years if we don’t do something now.  I’ve been here long enough to see several iterations of this same thinking.

    First, it was an ice age was coming.  We would all freeze to death.  I remember long ago a baseball pitcher in the major leagues came in as a relief pitcher and threw one pitch which the batter hit out of the park winning the game.  When asked by a reporter how he felt about it he replied, “Ten thousand years from now when earth is just a big ice cube no one will give a damn.”

   Then it was global warming. The planet temperature was rising.  We would all be either dead or in dire straits in thirty years if we didn’t do something now.  Well, it’s now fifty years later and we’re still here.  The mantra now is climate change, whatever that is.  I wonder what it will be like in twelve years when we’re all still here.

   I’m 90 years old.  I plan to be here twelve years from now just to see.