Winter

Well, today marks the true beginning of winter and the weather outside is really frightful! My upcoming Christmas visit with family in Florida should be all the more enjoyable!

How to talk to skeptics about global warming

For those of you who have friends who aren’t convinced that global warming is not a hoax, you might want to learn some strategies on how to make them think about their beliefs. On the Grist Mill blog is a well-organized list of arguments skeptics employ and ways to show disprove the erroneous beliefs. The arguments are laid out in four frameworks – stages of denial, scientific specifics, argumentation methods, and level of sophistication.

I get a chuckle out of some of the skeptical arguments against global warming, such as “Scientists can’t even predict the weather next week, so why should we believe what some climate model tells us about 100 years from now?”

Florida “Walker” Weather Dampens my Tampa Bay v. Phillies Game

Today, the temperature dropped from the mid 70’s to the low 60’s in a matter of just an hour in Tampa because of heavy rain and thunder. When you’re wearing an Under Armour shirt with a Phillies jersey on top of it, the low 60’s feels cold. At least a few sufficiently worthy baseball players were seen before the game was called after 5 innings of play.

Tampa Player

Tampa Player
Pleasant weather at beginning of game

Bad weather when game was called

They need to learn proper grammar for their signs.

Let’s Go Phillies !