Shoot man, you're just as good at sarcasm as I will ever be. My personal feeling is that the jury is still out on global warming. I think it as part of a cyclical trend every 30, 40, maybe 50 years. My first term paper in college was "The Coming Ice Age and Expansion of the Polar Ice Caps." I cited the most learned minds available. The term "Global Warming" hadn't even been coined yet.
As far as respecting "authorities" I am well aware of the extent academians will go to get published or even recognized. It means grant money and professor's chairs, and no matter how obscure, perverse or just plain screwy an idea is, you can always find some PHD (piled higher and deeper) that will defend it.
You, Sir, seem to place more stock in my academic credentials then I do. My personal feeling is that with degrees in hand and a dollar I can by a cheap cup of coffee at any downscale restaurant in town. My senior citizen card at Macydees is worth more.
I too spent some time in New Mexico. Got a degree from the College of Santa Fe. I once owned a fair sized house and 11 acres of the finest desert nobody else wanted. The wind blew so hard and so consistently that it was impossible to keep storm doors on the place. I was familiar with Texas and Arizona also. Texas would blow by one day and Arizona would blow back the next. And yes, those blizzards could be doozies. Everyone that came from out of state to visit us always asked, "Doesn't any one pick up their trash around here?"
Often I have taken volleyball and basketball teams to Albemarle, pleasant little city. By the way, I was born and raised a Yankee.
RW
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We get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads. So I\'m just really intelligent and my head coudn\'t hold anymore so it started filling up the rest of me. That\'s my story and I\'m sticking to it.
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