What's Really Causing This "Global Warming" Thingy?

The Story: Scientists have predicted when the world will end, and how. According to this article, as the Sun expands (as all stars do when they age), our world will get warmer and warmer...and eventually (a billion or so years from now) all of our oceans will be boiled away by the heat of the expanding Sun.

A few billion years later, the Earth will be pulled into the Sun (as it changes into a "red giant") by its gravitational force and destroyed completely. ***Cue music: "It's the end of the world...as we know it....and I feel fiiiiiine...."***

My 2 Cents: The Earth will be SUCKED into the Sun. Nom, nom, nom. Hungry Sun.

What a ride that would be.

Of course, that's approximately 7.6 billion years from now. There's definitely plenty of time for lazy bloggers like me to speculate about this.

Am I the only one who sees the possible correlation between this theory and "Global Warming?"

Don't get me wrong....pollution is bad. Burning petroleum-based fuels is not a good thing. I'm certainly not saying it is.

*Ahem!* Prepare for the Naughty Oil Company Diatribe.

Our oil-dependent world is run by oil-baron corrupted governments...and that certainly isn't helping matters. We, as the current caretakers of this planet, need to research and USE alternative energy sources which will not poison our environment. And we should not be financially punished in order to do so. Alternative fuel use should be rewarded...and carbon fuel use should be shunned. When our government makes allegiances with oil-rich terrorist governments, simply because they have oil...those governments should be shunned and punished as well.

We should not be turning a blind eye to terrorism so we can have access to cheap oil. For the US to do so is hypocritical....and sick.

Facts are facts...oil is no longer a sensible energy source...period. Oil companies are gouging consumers because the government allows it....and the government allows it because they are getting something out of it. Oil companies say that the prices climb due to oil shortages...refining costs...transportation costs...taxes...etc, etc, etc,....but every fiscal quarter those same oil companies report record profit margins.

I'm confused. If the price of oil is increasing concurrently with the cost of refining and transporting the product...profit margins should stay the same.

It doesn't take an economist or an accountant to figure out that we're being screwed over here. And our pocketbooks are not the only things paying the price. All of the crap being belched into our atmosphere is simply speeding up the process of kicking the human race off the planet.

*Climbs off of one soap-box to move to another*

However, carbon in the atmosphere is not the only cause of our Planet's temperature increases. We can't blame the oil companies and those who purchase oil products for everything (I'll take some blame...I don't own a hybrid or other alternative fuel vehicle...but my car does get over 35 miles per gallon...so I'm doing what I can afford at this point).

The Earth has been going into, in, and coming out of Ice Ages for the lifetime of our planet. The short amount of time humans have inhabited this planet is not going to change that...no matter how important we think we are....we're still just a relatively miniscule part of the equation.

Seriously....I'm pretty hot...but I'm not the sun! :o)

Long Time, No Talky....

The Story: I've been really freaking busy.

My Two Cents: See above.

If I actually have any regular readers, they will have noticed that I've not posted in, oh...about a month or so. This is due to the fact that I've been **ScArY BuSy!!!!** getting ready for deployment...and trying to train the people in my office to do my job.

I decided to post today simply because I got up this morning and had 3 somewhat annoying things happen to be before I even got into the shower.

This does not bode well for the remainder of my day.

Sooo...I'm lying in bed after hitting the sleep button twice...and the Significant Other has his arm around me. I'm enjoying his furnace-like body heat... and suddenly I have the feeling that something is not right.

"Oh, shit!"

I hop out of bed and dash for the bathroom. If you're female, I don't have to explain any further. You know what it's like to wake up with this...annoyance. If you're male, you probably don't want me to explain any further....since this is a "female problem."

'Nuff said.

So, as I'm cleaning up and rinsing things out, the cat is yowling and meowing at me like crazy. He's been trying to escape the bathroom ever since I started muttering curse words under my breath. He wants out. Meow! So I open to door, close it...and the clock FALLS off the wall and hits me in the arm.

Curse words are suddenly much louder.

And all this happens within 5 minutes of my getting out of bed.

Then, to top it all off, I stub my toe on the bed as I leave the bathroom, step on a toy in the living room, and fall up the stairs on the way back up after I wake up the kids for school.

Please, tell me my day isn't going to get any worse.

(((Silence)))

Crap.

Got Blue Eyes? Hello, Cousin!

The Story: Apparently all people with blue eyes are related. You might be my cousin, 6000 times removed!

My 2 Cents: Hello, my blue-eyed cousins!

I think this is pretty cool...blue-eyed and green-eyed folks like myself and my children are all MUTANTS! (Cue creepy music)

Well, at least our DNA is mutated compared to brown-eyed folks.

This makes me wonder: Does that mutation affect anything else?