Activists who have no idea what they are talking about remain both funny and sad!
"All of Gaul is divided into three parts," Julius Ceasar, speaking about the area of Europe that today is mostly France.
"Gall," however, is the salient quality of something or someone that is irritating, like those who have noticed that the earth is getting warmer (as it has many times in its history) AND keep screaming about it, as if they have discovered something new and alarming.
Why does our first line at the very top of this page tell you to take your icemakers and freezers to Chicago if you are offended by climate change? Well, if you don't like the earth warming, at what point did you want/expect/prefer (it should be YOUR choice, right, not nature's or God's, right?) that to stop? It only makes sense, then, to say that you prefer its coldest natural point, no? Well, here you go:
1225: Ice Sheets - explain xkcd
That's an illustration of the most recent glacier in Chicago (only 21,000 years ago -- the earth is believed to have been around for 4,540,000,000 years), with Chicago under a solid 900 meters (a bit over a half mile -- enough to kill every man, woman, and child there, and anywhere north of there) of ice!
Let's assume for a minute that the Climate Change acolytes really don't want millions to freeze to death, so that they really don't want Montreal, Toronto, Boston and Chicago all under AT LEAST a half-mile of ice, well, then, what do they want?
Maybe they just want to kill BILLIONS of us any which way!
They always say the biggest gaseous offenders are Carbon Dioxide and Methane. They always speak of the temperatures on earth in pre-industrial times. Well, back then there were about 800,000,000 people and now there are TEN TIMES more, or 8,000,000,000!
And those "climate folk" complain about carbon dioxide, we said. But wait, if they are talking, they are creating and expelling -- you guessed it -- carbon dioxide! And what about methane (CH4)? That's flatulence, or, <blush> "f@rt*ng"! And Climate Aficionados keep expelling that gas too!
Now, we obviously have ten times as many people around as when the CO2 (exhaled) and CH4 (expelled from the other end) levels were at the levels they want. Do they have an explanation of how to get it back there without killing off 90% of us? Why do we never see any statistics from these gaseous climate folks about how much of these gases come from us and the other mammals on the planet?
Doesn't common sense tell you that the world can't get to pre-industrial levels without ending all our heat, air conditioning, transportation, and manufacturing, and also ending 90% of us -- forcefully I presume, since even the most ardent anti-change climate people won't simply stop breathing voluntarily!
Oh, and Glacial ages occur every 100,000 to 125,000 years, in cycles. Nature often moves slowly. That length for a cycle would strongly imply about 60,000 years of warming, followed by about 60,000 of cooling, etc., etc., in cycles.
Since Chicago, Boston, and so on were under ice sheets over a half mile thick about 21,000 years ago ( 1225: Ice Sheets - explain xkcd ), before the melting started - meaning that we have had warming now for 21,000 years in this approximately 60,000 year warming cycle, with only another 39,000 years of COMPLETELY NATURAL WARMING to go!
And Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (yelling?) says we have to spend $3 Trillion a year to fight Global Warming! $3 Trillion times 39,000; and on what appears to be a fool's errand!
Let's see if the computer can handle that math! Google says that is $117,000,000,000,000,000! And how much money exists on earth? Google says $85,000,000,000,000. So, we only have to spend about 1,400 times all the money on earth ON THIS ISSUE ALONE!
Do the climate change folks have any way we can do that?
You can't fight Mother Nature! (At least not in a fight you win.)