tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post6298599214093084107..comments2024-01-30T02:37:28.387-06:00Comments on Notes from a Jewish Thoreau: If the Earth is warming up, why are we getting so much snow?Yonassan Gershomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-85414742505763500702011-02-23T12:34:38.313-06:002011-02-23T12:34:38.313-06:00Thank you both for your positive comments, Darcy &...Thank you both for your positive comments, Darcy & Nekkid Chicken!<br /><br />I wrote this in response to some very disturbing emails I got from fellow Orthodox Jews recently (although the head-in-sand attitude is by no means limited to Jews or the Orthodox!) Seems all that snow in NYC has frozen a lot of brains lately. <br /><br />In general the Jewish community has shifted to the Right politically in the past 2 decades, and with that has come a very disturbing distrust of science. We Jews used to be known for producing great scientists. Now it appears we are producing ignorant idiots. Einstein must be rolling over in his grave. <br /><br />After I read the book <i>Climate Cover-Up,</i> I put two and two together: During the 1990s it became a political agenda on the part of the Right to debunk global warming, with the help of Fox News and their ilk. Nature, however, is not political. Nature is nature, science is science, and no amount of campaigning can change that. <br /><br />So I, too, have turned to trying to educate people (and especially felow Jews!) about how the natural world works -- hence this blog. Thank you for visiting it, come back again soon!Yonassan Gershomhttp://www.rabbigershom.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-2034398057223995302011-02-23T09:53:56.905-06:002011-02-23T09:53:56.905-06:00Excellent post! I have witness the fronts moving d...Excellent post! I have witness the fronts moving down South and then coming back up after a moisture fill in the Gulf. <br /><br />http://saenzmom.blogspot.com/2011/02/thaw-930.html<br /><br />http://saenzmom.blogspot.com/2011/02/baby-its-cold-outside.html<br /><br />Never seen that much ice cover here in deep South Texas. So I believe global warming has merit.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />MalNekkid Chickenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749417208223478262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-12664216752712007672011-02-23T09:26:17.133-06:002011-02-23T09:26:17.133-06:00I agree with you and find it difficult to understa...I agree with you and find it difficult to understand how so many people want to stick their head in the sand about this! As a result of the frustration I feel about trying to get people to wake up, I have turned toward trying to educate people about the natural world. Feeling that once they have a relationship with the mystery and beauty that nature beholds, they will decide to protect it rather than destroy it.<br /><br />DarcyDarcyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474895637619727452noreply@blogger.com