Climate Change Doubters

In the dog park on Sunday speaking with someone young and fairly intelligent who admitted to me that he doesn't really believe in global warming. He believes that the earth is getting warmer and humans merely speeding up a natural process.

It got me thinking, what would the earth be like without humans. Would it be heating up if we took us all out of the equation?

Animals would not be knocking down trees, deforesting the earth, destroying the ozone layer with fluorocarbons, laying down black asphalt, polluting the ocean, burning oil to keep warm and drive our cars and so on? How is it possible that we are not affecting the earth in every way.

It is logic, pure and simple logic.

Teenage eating machines

Well, I've heard about it and read about it but I am now finally experiencing the amazing 14 year old teenage male eating (and growing) machine.

It is a truly insane thing to experience and watch, a child growing literally sometimes overnight, be it a shoe-size or other clothes, while eating huge quantities of food, three donuts, five pancakes, ice cream, pasta, bottles of milk, lemonade, gatorade, cookies, candy, macaroni and cheese, fruit, and who knows what else. A child who can literally eat you out of house and home. I see the future and it will include a food bill escalating by about $50 per week this school year.

I remember when he was little, maybe two or three years old, and one evening he wanted Cheerios and milk for dinner. He proceeded to eat three big bowls of Cheerios. So I asked him that all important question, where did it all go? How could it be in his small belly? He responded "well, mommy" (as if I was stupid), "it is in my arms and legs and fingers and toes". If only.