Two issues today, both long-standing topics of discussion.
As mentioned previously, while the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard was tragic beyond depth, gun ownership wasn’t the cause, mental instability was. Consequently, were guns not available, its likely the shooter would have used other means for achieving his goals.
Nonetheless, anti-gun zealots are opportunistically attempting to take advantage of the event to further their case for weapon surrender. However, the immediate public reaction indicates the complete reverse.
According to Wilson Dizard of Aljazeera via Drudge: Just days after the incident, “gun owners continued to stock up on firearms at shops bordering the capital. And most shoppers were of the same mind: Shooting tragedies are a problem that federal gun laws can't solve.”
A Maryland lawyer, Richmond T.P. Davis, put it quite well saying, “You can't legislate away evil.”
In Maryland a new law tightening gun control is set to come in on October 1, which has been sending the state's gun enthusiasts to stores in droves to stock up before the deadline.
One buyer, James Alexander, stated: “No legislation will ever stop what happened in Newtown or any other place. It's sad, it's unfortunate, and I feel very bad for the kids and families that were injured by it. But you're not going to be able to change the fact that gun bans don't stop that from happening."
And that’s the whole point, because guns aren’t the problem and never were. It’s the lunatics, disturbed, and criminal elements that need to be curbed.
For topic two, there’s an article from The Times of India also via Drudge, reporting that “Predictions that 2013 would see an upsurge in solar activity and geomagnetic storms disrupting power grids and communications systems have proved to be a false alarm. Instead, the current peak in the solar cycle is the weakest for a century.”
This is seriously disturbing global-warming alarmists because, “Subdued solar activity has prompted controversial comparisons with the Maunder Minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, when a prolonged absence of sunspots and other indicators of solar activity coincided with the coldest period in the last millennium.”
And although: “The comparisons have sparked a furious exchange of views between observers who believe the planet could be on the brink of another period of cooling, and scientists who insist there is no evidence that temperatures are about to fall," Giuliana DeToma, a solar scientist at the High Altitude Observatory in Colorado, put it best by admitting "we do not know how or why the Maunder Minimum started, so we cannot predict the next one."
At the same time, “Many solar experts think the downturn is linked to a different phenomenon, the Gleissberg cycle, which predicts a period of weaker solar activity every century or so. If that turns out to be true, the sun could remain unusually quiet through the middle of the 2020s.”
In the end though, is this summation. “But since the scientists still do not understand why the Gleissberg cycle takes place, the evidence is inconclusive. The bottom line is that the sun has gone unusually quiet and no one really knows why or how long it will last.”
So, while I’ve been typing my digits off for several years now having no climatology knowledge at all, I nonetheless arrived long ago at the same place as all these distinguished scientists have now. Because, when it comes to predicting the weather, no one on earth can even tell you whether or not it will rain tomorrow, much less further into the future. And if these esteemed scientists really were able to accurately predict future events, they’d surely be at the race track or Vegas instead of their labs.
That’s it for today folks.
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