Climategate has exposed the fact that climate scientist cherry picked, manipulated and buried data to create the result they were looking for. Furthermore, the scandal wasn’t confined to the University of East Anglia, it is wide spread.
The problem for the committed global warming alarmist becomes what to do facing these facts. One tactic they can try is the nostalgia angle. Via a very smarmy WaPo op-ed:
In a world without air conditioning, a warmer, more flexible, more relaxed workplace helps make summer a time to slow down again. Three-digit temperatures prompt siestas. Code-orange days mean offices are closed. Shorter summer business hours and month-long closings — common in pre-air-conditioned America — return. (emphasis added)
Give up your AC, work shorter summer hours and take the month of August off. Sounds great except this is not true. In the pre-air conditioned 1920′s the average work week was 50 hr/week and the average worker in 1960 worked 41 hr/week. By 1988 the average work week had fallen to 39 hrs / week. In 2009 , according to the BLS (if you were employed) the average person worked 7.5 hours a day or 37.5 hr / week.
There is a lot to be said about productivity and air conditioning. I’ll go out out on a limb and say if you take the month of August off, you will more than likely will not get paid.
Of course, the smarmy WaPo op-ed keeps trying to romanticize bygone days:
Families unplug as many heat-generating appliances as possible. Forget clothes dryers –post-A.C. neighborhoods are crisscrossed with clotheslines. The hot stove is abandoned for the grill, and dinner is eaten on the porch.
Around town
Saying goodbye to A.C. means saying hello to the world. With more people spending more time outdoors — particularly in the late afternoon and evening, when temperatures fall more quickly outside than they do inside — neighborhoods see a boom in spontaneous summertime socializing.
Rather than cowering alone in chilly home-entertainment rooms, neighbors get to know one another. Because there are more people outside, streets in high-crime areas become safer. As a result of all this, a strange thing happens: Deaths from heat decline. (emphasis added)
Doesn’t this looks great?
About people dying from heat because they are too afraid to get outside. This is not true either. Air conditioning isn’t as prevalent in Europe as the United States. Even with all the outdoor socializing and safe neighborhoods of Europe 35,000 people died from an extreme heat wave in 2003.
I will keep my air conditioner.
After dealing with yesterday and the entire area was out of power. Not just all day but all night as well.
I couldn’t see anyone taking off an entire month let alone being in the sweat lodges we call homes with no air flow? I truly understand why people back in the Middle East live in shacks still. It’s to keep the air flowing through.
Climategate is just another way to enforce the U.S. and others to become dirt poor again. Just like the picture here shows.
Great post my friend.
DanJ
Thanks Dan!
The global warming crowd is relentless. And I agree their agenda is to make us dirt poor.
They can have my air conditioning when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
I’m with you.
What really gets me is the people out there thinking that somehow all this is a good idea.
I mean anyone running this whole scam isn’t going to give up any bit of luxury. What makes them think the people that work so hard for it will?
It’s beyond me how anyone could actually support this junk. They need to come to the desert for awhile. lol
Great point Dan…
Al Gore is not going to move into a 2000 sq/ft house with no A/C. He will by ‘offsets’ and maintain his lifestyle.
Exactly. He’ll keep driving his cars live rich while convincing people who can’t think for themselves that they are the ones killing the Earth. It really is sad.