Cars do not create global warming
And I can prove it!
I have to admit that the last few days in IOWA have been HOT. With the corn high and the fields wet, we have a perfect storm. A storm of steam that is. Today we hit only 97.6 degrees but the Heat index was off the charts.
Now you may be asking yourself, "How did this guy know that it was 97.6 degrees?" It is due to the fact that he purchase a new clock with indoor/outdoor temperature capacity. It's a cute thing with LDC readout. It will tell me what day it is, what month and year and what "moon" we are in. It also keeps me posted as to the indoor temp is along with the outdoor. So today I sat at the kitchen table looking at the clock hanging on the wall. I watched the outside temperature pass the indoor temperature and proceed on to a total of 14 degrees difference. All the time I am sitting inside in air-conditioning. Now if I could just find a clock that could calculate the same, plus the hourly cost of electricity.
Wouldn't that be great!
Now getting back to the topic of Global warming. Everyone claims that the automobile is responsible for the warming up of the earth. In a round-about way they are correct, but it is not due to the burning of fossil fuels. What is causing the warming of the earth are the huge black parking lots outside of every large mall or shopping center.
We were traveling on Friday when we had to stop and feed the grandchildren. When we pulled up to our favorite spot I pulled around the shop and parked so we could watch the truck while we ate. This meant I had to park in the strip mall parking lot. When I opened the truck, I was hit with a blast of hot air that made your glasses fog over. Thinking nothing of it, we went inside and enjoyed lunch.
I was the first done, so I finished and went out to start the truck and cool it down. As soon as I stepped out in the parking lot, I was hit with that same hot/dry air and thought to myself this is crazy. The heat rising off that black tar coating the parking lot had to be 20 degrees hotter then the concrete sidewalk I was walking on.
I started the truck. kicked on the air, and waited for the rest to come out. As I was sitting there, thinkin. I thought about the farmers tale that sometimes it could get so hot, you could kick an egg on the sidewalk. It had to be that hot out in the lot. Ideas were racing through my head on better ways to build a parking lot, and roofs to buildings, so that all that heat would not build up. But then the wife and grand-kids showed up before I could solve this problem. The all climbed into the grandpa chariot and we drove off with the windows up and the air blasting at full force.
As we drove off, we talked about our meal and I asked if anyone noticed that they had a new way of grilling steaks and hamburgers at the place and it was a whole lot cheaper to operate. Everyone claimed that they hadn't noticed so I told them that instead of of grill/stove, all they did was install new windows.
Then when someone ordered a steak, they just opened the window and tossed a new one on the parking lot.
Fact:
In mid-August 2003, the world's largest collection of arctic ice core samples, stored at the State University of New York at Buffalo, completely melted due to the prolonged power outage affecting Eastern North America.
I have to admit that the last few days in IOWA have been HOT. With the corn high and the fields wet, we have a perfect storm. A storm of steam that is. Today we hit only 97.6 degrees but the Heat index was off the charts.
Now you may be asking yourself, "How did this guy know that it was 97.6 degrees?" It is due to the fact that he purchase a new clock with indoor/outdoor temperature capacity. It's a cute thing with LDC readout. It will tell me what day it is, what month and year and what "moon" we are in. It also keeps me posted as to the indoor temp is along with the outdoor. So today I sat at the kitchen table looking at the clock hanging on the wall. I watched the outside temperature pass the indoor temperature and proceed on to a total of 14 degrees difference. All the time I am sitting inside in air-conditioning. Now if I could just find a clock that could calculate the same, plus the hourly cost of electricity.
Wouldn't that be great!
Now getting back to the topic of Global warming. Everyone claims that the automobile is responsible for the warming up of the earth. In a round-about way they are correct, but it is not due to the burning of fossil fuels. What is causing the warming of the earth are the huge black parking lots outside of every large mall or shopping center.
We were traveling on Friday when we had to stop and feed the grandchildren. When we pulled up to our favorite spot I pulled around the shop and parked so we could watch the truck while we ate. This meant I had to park in the strip mall parking lot. When I opened the truck, I was hit with a blast of hot air that made your glasses fog over. Thinking nothing of it, we went inside and enjoyed lunch.
I was the first done, so I finished and went out to start the truck and cool it down. As soon as I stepped out in the parking lot, I was hit with that same hot/dry air and thought to myself this is crazy. The heat rising off that black tar coating the parking lot had to be 20 degrees hotter then the concrete sidewalk I was walking on.
I started the truck. kicked on the air, and waited for the rest to come out. As I was sitting there, thinkin. I thought about the farmers tale that sometimes it could get so hot, you could kick an egg on the sidewalk. It had to be that hot out in the lot. Ideas were racing through my head on better ways to build a parking lot, and roofs to buildings, so that all that heat would not build up. But then the wife and grand-kids showed up before I could solve this problem. The all climbed into the grandpa chariot and we drove off with the windows up and the air blasting at full force.
As we drove off, we talked about our meal and I asked if anyone noticed that they had a new way of grilling steaks and hamburgers at the place and it was a whole lot cheaper to operate. Everyone claimed that they hadn't noticed so I told them that instead of of grill/stove, all they did was install new windows.
Then when someone ordered a steak, they just opened the window and tossed a new one on the parking lot.
Fact:
In mid-August 2003, the world's largest collection of arctic ice core samples, stored at the State University of New York at Buffalo, completely melted due to the prolonged power outage affecting Eastern North America.
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