May has been a slow month for my blog. For the first part of the month I fell ill, and most recently I just fell. However, in the light of no serious long-term injuries, I can let myself laugh at my own folly. I’m not sure this is what Shakespeare meant when stating one could laugh himself into stitches, but perhaps Dame Edna Everage said it best: “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”

So, the story begins with my decision to buy a motorcycle…

The whole post can be read at my blog site by following the link below.

Here is my latest post. I don't routinely post my blog to Myspace any longer; however, I thought I would occassionally push one out here. My regular blog posts can be found at www.KnightOfTheLivingDad.com

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“Geologists think that the world may be frozen up again.” – New York Times, 1895

“The human race will have to fight for its existence against cold.” – Los Angeles Times, 1912

“Scientists say arctic ice will wipe out Canada and parts of Europe and Asia, and Switzerland would be entirely obliterated.” – Chicago Tribune, 1923

“America is in the longest warming spell since 1776 with temperatures in a 25-year rise.” – New York Times, 1933

“…weathermen have no doubt that the world, at least for the time being, is growing warmer.” – Time Magazine, 1939

“Melting glaciers are the trump card of global warming.” – The New York Times, 1952

“Winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing.” – U.S. News and World Report, 1954

“Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.” – Time Magazine, 1974

“…glaciers have begun to advance…growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter…the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool” – Christian Science Monitor, 1974

“The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed, and we are unlikely to quickly regain the 'very extraordinary period of warmth' that preceded it.” – Science News, 1975

“There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.” – Newsweek, 1975

“But the sense of the discoveries is that there is no reason why the ice age should not start in earnest in our lifetime.” – International Wildlife, 1975

“Scientists ponder why world's climate is changing; A Major Cooling widely considered to be inevitable.” – New York Times, 1975

“About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level due to global warming, in the next few decades.” – Al Gore, 1992

“Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible.” – Time Magazine, 2001

“Billions will die, says Lovelock, who tells us that he is not usually a gloomy type. Human civilization will be reduced to a 'broken rabble ruled by brutal warlords,' and the plague-ridden remainder of the species will flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic, the last temperate spot where a few breeding couples will survive.” – The Daily Telegraph, 2006

“Multi-scale analysis of global temperature changes and trend of a drop in temperature in the next 20 years" – Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2007

“Instead of professed global warming, the Earth will be facing a slow decrease in temperatures in 2012-2015. The gradually falling amounts of solar energy, expected to reach their bottom level by 2040, will inevitably lead to a deep freeze around 2055-2060. [Abdusamatov] said, adding that this period of global freeze will last some 50 years, after which the temperatures will go up again.” – RIA Novisty, 2007