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Re: [Phys-l] Climate Denial Crock of the Week- "It's cold. Sothere's no Climate Change"



When I was growing up in Orange County, So Cal, we used to regularly get really serious pea soup fog, fog so thick you couldn't see more than 20 or 30 feet in front of you. To cope with this when driving, all the streets used to have sinusoidal lines painted along the central divider for fifty feet or so before an intersection so you'd know it was coming. That simply doesn't happen anymore and there haven't been sinusoidal lines on streets for many decades.

I suspect this has less to do with global warming than with having mowed down all the orange groves and built houses to accommodate the six-fold increase in county population since those days. For some reason that I really don't understand, nobody (except, perhaps, Al Bartlett) seems interested in taking on the root problem of overpopulation anymore. When I bring it up in my lefty circles, I'm often greeted with either embarrassed silence or mild scorn for my apparent vestigial racism.

John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona