Since we’re in the heat of summer in most parts of the world, it’s a good opportunity to address climate change. For the record, according to Weather.com, last “July (was) on track to be the coolest in the U.S. since 2015, according to Todd Crawford, Director of Meteorology at Atmospheric G2.” Although not many of us were around to experience those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, to quote Nat King Cole, re last summer, how quickly we forget.

 

CNN has been all over ‘climate change’ and recently hosted the founder (whom CNN misidentified as the co-founder) of the Weather Channel, climatologist John Coleman.

“Climate change is ‘Baloney’,” said Coleman. “There is no man-made weather change. There hasn’t been any in the past, and there’s no reason to suspect there will be any in the future.“

When interviewer Brian Selzer pointed out that there is a consensus on the topic, said Coleman, “CNN has taken a very strong position on global warming, that it is a consensus,” he said. “Well, there is no consensus in science. Science isn’t a vote, science is about facts…And if you get down to the hard cold facts, there’s no question about it…It’s become political, not scientific.

“Scientists only get government research grants if they will support the global warming agenda. In other words, it’s politics, not science. (The government gives) $2.5B directly for climate research every year. It only gives that money to climatologists who will support the global warming hypothesis of the Democratic party, so they don’t have any choice! So 97% of the scientists ‘support’ global warming because that’s where the money is. It’s real simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s right.”

 

We hear the term ‘circular economy’ a lot these days, and of course, much of it is to do with sustainability. With gas prices out of control, turning to electric cars has been offered as the solution, and never mind that the power grid is already being taxed and that Tesla owners in Texas (have been) asked to not charge vehicles for fear of overloading power grid. Seems that the suggestion to replace fuel-burning vehicles with electric alternatives might be something of a wrong turn, all things considered.

 

But who looks or thinks long-term anymore, despite all the talk about the importance of sustainability and building a ‘circular economy?’

 

Speaking of long-term, back in 2009, when Amazon acquired Zappos, Jeff Bezos put out a video on how to build a business. There were three points:

1: obsess over customers

2: invent

3: think long term

For those of us who were there, when Amazon launched, Bezos was the laughingstock of the industry. Amazon was not profitable overnight. It took him six years to turn a profit. But he was thinking long-term, stayed the course – and got the last laugh.

 

And know that old adage: he who laughs, lasts.

 

Which brings us to solar panels, on which much emphasis has been and is being placed a long-term solution for providing a clean, efficient form of energy.

 

Here’s a head’s up and should literally, pun intended, be shouted from the rooftops: California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills. “Many (solar panels) are already winding up in landfills, where in some cases, they could potentially contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.”

Nor is recycling the spent panels cost-efficient, as is the case with wind energy as well (Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills).

 

So much for green and the circular economy, unless the term is misunderstood and more akin to circular reasoning.

 

Then there are the chemtrails, a ‘climate control’ project that has been going on for years, thanks to – shocker! – Bill Gates and how could dumping millions of tons of toxic particles into the atmosphere day after day for years possibly do any damage? Interesting that Bill Gates Admits to Chemtrails nearly a decade ago. This video is from 2013. Scientists did weigh in on the damage this program would cause and you do have to wonder if Gates’s program is speeding up the temperatures rising and note to self, since many scientists sounded the alarm on the long-term effects of dispersing toxins into the atmosphere: computer science does not trump real science. But it seems John Coleman was right: money does.

 

As a warning, it was Bill Gates who pushed for the disastrous Common Core education program and after making billions on it, Gates admits Common Core failure, then doubles down on it.

 

Can humanity afford a failure like this in the case of chemtrails, which have the potential to turn the planet toxic – or worse?

 

This planet is a living entity with its own systole and diastole – and it’s not nice to try to fool Mother Nature, to recall an old commercial that attempted to convince people that there was no perceptible difference between butter and margarine and even that the two were equally healthy. Looking long term, it seems, not so much.

 

For the record, we are a huge proponent of sustainability, the preservation of/mindful use of natural resources and circular economies. But the tech sector is getting far too deep into areas in which it has no expertise: where move fast and break things is not the best idea, and to ask forgiveness, not permission, well, think of all the toxins that are being created in the name of clean energy, et al, that are simply creating potentially larger problems than they are solving.

 

It’s time to leave the science to the scientists, the ones who follow the facts, rather than the money, and speaking of science, here’s an interesting fact for you: “The commonly accepted germ theory of illness spread by viruses is just a theory. It has never been proven,” according to Great Mountain Publishing et al. ”The attached research paper was written by Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, M.D., in 1919.

 

“Most people, and even most doctors, are ignorant of Dr. Resonau’s experiments. Dr. Resonau conducted experiments during the height of the Spanish Flu epidemic. He wanted to establish the means by which influenza was spread. He took 100 healthy volunteers who agreed to be exposed to the Spanish Flu. They were exposed to influenza under controlled conditions but none of them contracted the flu.”

 

The thing about facts is that they tend to be immutable. They tend to stand the test of time. Which is important if you’re planning for success in the long term. Which worked out quite well for Jeff Bezos.

 

It’s true that it’s hot outside. Some days, very hot. It’s summer. It’s supposed to be hot. Again, just a fact and always good to be able to distinguish between the summer heat and just so much hot air as we go onward and forward.