Well, even though I am pretty sure no one is reading this, or maybe because I am, I am going to try writing down some thoughts. Today's thoughts are on global warming, probably because I have been feeling pretty cold on our morning walks. I am happy to get a little local warming - if no one else wants theirs, I am not unhappy with mine. And I am tired of people trying to scare me to death about the next climate change catastrophe. Of course, the recent revision of US temperature data that dropped several of the recent years from the list of the century's hottest didn't get much traction in the news. And that is the pattern - hype the scare, ignore the retraction or revision that diminishes the scare. Katrina was the harbinger of the end of the world as we know it and for two years since we have had predictions of apocalyptic hurricane seasons - which have failed to materialize. But we don't hear about that, just the prediction for a lot of activity at the beginning of the season. Now, I don't know how much of the recent warming is due to CO2 stuff, but neither do I think anyone else does. Even so, I am all in favor of reducing CO2 emissions - after all, I have been riding my bike to school and work for over 30 years for a reason. Still, freedom is a more important value to me than preventing possible global warming and I am unwilling to impose my environmental morality on others to that degree. I might change my mind if I really had confidence that any mechanism currently available to us (other than returning to the pre-industrial age) would a) reduce atmospheric CO2 and b) significantly affect global climate. Basically, my response is, "come back when you know more about it."