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I will preface this post about global warming with several facts.  First, I am so not a science person.  I respect science and scientists, but I can’t do what they do.  Two, I’ve been teaching four nights a week after working my regular job and then grading papers on the weekend so I’m really not thinking straight.  But…these are the thoughts lingering in my brain tonight.

So the press has been yapping about global warming again.  I know the weather is changing, but this really isn’t a new concept.  Or at least according to the BBC’s Ultimate Dinosaur Collection.  The Earth has had changes over the millennia, eras, and eons.  Different levels of oxygen, different levels of carbon dioxide, and other stuff.  If you watch the whole collection, Sir Kenneth Branagh will narrate all of the changes for you.  In my opinion this is yet another cycle in the Earth’s existence.  Weather happens, it’s nature, natural, and it can’t be controlled.  I’m just a wee bit tired of listening to the same stuff over and over.  I seriously doubt the dinosaurs talked about it this much.

Another issue is the helium shortage.  Some say we have enough for 300 years while others say we’re running out.  I would prefer to defer to the concept of shortage and preserve it for the scientific purposes it serves and not use it for party decorations.  I like using it to run MRI machines and for cooling samples.  Just saying.

Finally, because I don’t want to be all gloom and doom on a Friday night, the boys got pedicures tonight.  I was doing my toenails and they asked if I would paint their toes.  Hee hee.  Their feet look so pretty!