Thursday, January 7, 2010

Global Warming Means More Storms

I have been an interested amateur in the Global Warming Science parade of opinions.

Guess what? Adding heat to a system causes more turbulence, more mixing. Putting more heat into water causes more evaporation. Add those two together, and presto, more storms.

So for the short term, from my interested amateur position, expect more variation in the weather - not less - and expect more moisture - not less.

Enjoy!

Job Creation

I wanted to write a very insightful entry on job creation and how a central government is lousy at doing it while small businesses are excellent at it.

But I will skip all the rhetoric and get to the point that the economists predicting gloom and doom for job creation will be wrong. That is unless the government tries to help. It's an American cultural characteristic to cheerfully go and find some way to make money. Furthermore, the economy is changing so much due to how information is flowing ("Newspapers closing!" "Blockbuster franchises shutting their doors!" "Broadcast TV in peril!") that any past trends won't be very useful for future guesses.

But historically, this kind of chaos breeds opportunities.

Which I am excited to see.