The trouble with global warming is that, well, you freeze your ass off. Across virtually the entire continent, 2019 has been the year of waiting for the sun. Never has a globe so warm been so wet, windy and cold. So what gives?

The concept of global warming, the way they tell it in the papers, is that all the gas you’ve bought over a lifetime, the aerosol hairspray you used and that time you threw that aluminum can into the wrong-colored trash can means there will be an environmental apocalypse where there will be no seasons and no days under 100 degrees. Maybe that’s not exactly true.

Did you know that of the seemingly hundreds of people running for president in 2020, a big handful of them will run almost exclusively on a single issue – global warming? They want you to view them as the greenest of them all. They want you to drive a sun-powered car, they want you to care about the earth more than each other. They want cows that don’t fart (it hurts the environment), but mostly they want to tell you what to do and confiscate your civil liberties in the name of the environment.

I believe it’s totally plausible that the world is getting warmer. In fact, the earth has been getting hotter and colder in cycles for millions of years. This climate change caused the earth’s land masses to split into continents, it spelled the end for dinosaurs and resulted in other species taking their place. It made much of the earth into a giant ice cube and then a changing climate melted it. The caveman didn’t cause this phenomenon nor did large mammals passing gas.

We’ve only been keeping statistics on weather conditions for less 200 years, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the earth’s history. The climate is changing, so be it. The real question is whether you and me caused it and whether there is anything we can do to stop it.

When Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513, Indians had been living there for 12,000 years. Historically, Florida’s land mass was twice what it is today … much of the past Indian civilization is now under water. What happened? Did the tribes send so many smoke signals that the resulting pollution caused the weather to change? Probably not. More likely the weather patterns were changing organically because that’s what they do and sea levels rose as the earth’s ice melted.

So if the warming of the earth started over 500 years ago on its own how am I going to stop it by only running my washing machine at night?

We should all be thoughtful stewards of the earth. I can’t remember the last time I polluted a stream. Still, the “global warming” movement, the so-called “Green New Deal,” is agendized and now some would have us think of it as the pivotal issue for electing a president.

Here’s the rub: “global warming” is code for higher taxes and an increase in government bureaucracy. Chasing a solution is likely to increase your cost of living. Any extra tax you pay, any lifestyle change you endure, any limit on what you can do as a free citizen in the name of saving the planet will be completely neutralized by people in China, India and Russia who are all warming their hands by a tire fire.

The political rhetoric will soon have a gun to your head, stop using gas now or tomorrow the spotted owl will be extinct and the natural earth will self destruct.

Me myself, I’m hoping for a little global warming this weekend, we should all enjoy it before some politician puts a price on it.