Derek Bodner’s Blog

Just some rants about various topics before I head out for the weekend:
Global Warming
- Every time there’s a warm day during the winter, people screaming “global warming”. No. While I’m not going to completely rule out global warming as a threat, most estimates have the average temperature increasing about 1.5 degrees farenheit over the last 30 years. When people go “god, it’s so hot out, this is proof of Global Warming”, shut up. That 1.5 degrees is not make a substantial impact on your warmth.

And really, try to have a global perspective. Have you heard about it being the 2nd coldest january in the last 15 years? Have you heard about China’s historically cold winter? Or about Greenland’s winter? Of course not. Because it doesn’t fit the chic story. I’m not saying global warming doesn’t exist, but please don’t use the last week’s temperature at your locale as proof.

Change

“I’m the candidate for change”. Oh jesus. I haven’t yet fully decided on who I want to vote for in the democratic primary, much less the general election. But dear god, if I have to hear about the rhetoric for “change” any more, I might throw up. That crap from Obama might just push me away from him. It’s as much the media’s fault as it is the candidates, but every non-incumbent candidate since the dawn of time has used that as a platform. I’d like to think our presidential candidates have a little more depth than that, and that our voters are a little more educated than that. I sometimes worry I’m going to be disappointed on both fronts.