9 August 2009
Why Didn't Someone Think of This!
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Here we have done all this science, and spent all this money to find out why the planet is getting warmer. Just this weekend, the USGS has published information about the rapidly melting glaciers in Alaska, and the Cascades. The images below are from the USGS report.
For those who like looking at the data, the image below is a summary of three glaciers. Two in Alaska and one in Washington.
Oh, but wait! We now know what is causing it! It’s not Carbon Dioxide, and it’s not deforestation.
It’s DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME!
Don’t believe me? It’s right here in the Arkansas Gazette!
At first I thought it was a joke, then I realized it wasn’t. Thanks to my friend Paul Lees-Haley for finding this. He is an expert in Psychology. They need you, Paul. They need you.
UPDATE: I am told reliably by several sources, that the letter was indeed written as a joke by a local attorney in Hot Springs! Hard to tell since much of the junk science online is not much better, and in many cases more ridiculous.
Actually this has been around a couple of years.
The author is known to have a dry sense of humor, so likely it is written as a joke, though it’s a real letters column.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/daylight.asp
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Have just found out and updated the post. Funny, I had not heard that one before. Maybe I should write a post about Mars being as big as the full moon next week!
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Would love to know the age of those glaciers…
Likely been around since the last interglacial 125,000 years ago. Good question, I will see what I can find out. Glaciers are a particular interest of mine, the science is reallllly fascinating.
Just goes to show how inured rational people are to the extreme wingnuts and the inanity of their fairy tales. This isn’t any less credible as a serious proposition than the notion that a God put the world here 6000 years ago for the sole pleasure and plunder of humans!