In light of the extremely inauspicious manner in which the Eagles are starting the 2007 season and the discussion on anthropomorphic global warming (AGW), I figured I’d try to sew them together in a way that makes some sense.
It is established fact that home teams in the NFL tend to win more. About 58% of NFL games are won by the homers. What’s not completely understood is why. Is it home cookin’? Is it the fans? Is it not having to travel? I mean, it’s one thing in Denver, where they have some geological reasons, but for the rest of the league? What’s the deal? One thing we can be fairly sure of, it’s not somebody wearing his lucky drawls on Sunday when the game comes on. But what about the effect of the fans cheering?
Well, I think Global Warming is about the same. We can agree that over the past couple hundred years, the earth has been getting warmer, although as DarkStar correctly points out, we just know it’s getting warmer as long as we’ve been observing; we don’t really have a baseline to see where this lies in a real trend. Anthropomorphic Global Warming, or the idea that global warming is principally attributable to changes that man has made in the environment. To me, that’s like saying that home teams win more because their fans cheer harder. It’s possible, but that means that all the other variables have to be static, or at least controlled. I see a lotta talk about CO2, but not too much about S-U-N, which, I think, would be a major player.
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