Talk to me about global warming. Real or not?

There are a vast number of things about which I don’t give a shit. This is one.

What annoys me is that we are supposed to take a preponderance of opinion as scientific fact. Um, sorry. My brain has not been so softened by social media propaganda as to believe that.

Besides, who gives a shit? Are not human beings natural and a part of this planet? Is not our activity, then, a part of the workings of Earth? Science tells us that we’re just animals. If so, then we have no right to be so egotistical as to view ourselves as OUTSIDE of nature. We don’t influence or change climate, we are just one big cog in the system.

As a homebrewer and baker, I see an analogy for humans in the activities of yeast.

Yeast is a microscopic organism that eats sugar and farts out alcohol and carbon dioxide. If you put some yeast in apple juice, it will turn it into apple cider, with much steady bubbling—the creation of alcohol you cannot see.

Eventually one of two things will happen to the yeast. One, they will consume all available sugars and go into hibernation, floating to the bottom. But, two, if the sugar content is really high or if you keep adding more and more, the alcohol content will continue to rise and rise, eventually killing off the yeast. In such a case, you will be left with very strong apple wine, not cider–and dead yeast.

We are yeast.

And to answer your question, YES, I believe in climate change. The climate of the Earth has been changing constantly throughout its history. At one time, before we yeastie boys came around, it was so warm not a shred of ice was anywhere and palm trees grew above the Arctic Circle.

So, politicize away. I don’t give a shit. Everybody needs something to distract themselves on the way to the grave.