Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Oysters and Ice Ages Date:   10/18/2022 10:04:41 AM (updated 10/18/2022 10:10:39 AM)

PHIL -

“1.   I agree who in their right mind ( or starving half to death ) grabbed up something in a shell that resembles snot / lumpy slime and just slurped it down. Personally I prefer mine baked on the half shell with parm/butter/lemon. Not to mention figuring out the right "seasons" we have now to make sure they are not full of bacteria or other harmful stuff. But the seasons are probably just another symptom of the infamous "global warming" that GFY is causing via his boats and truck upgrades.”

Growing up the on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast (son-of-a-son-of-a-sailor), I learned to eat oysters… yes, only in months containing an “R.” I relish them fresh, cool, and on the half shell… smothered in Tabasco sauce. I avoid oysters from WARM brackish waters (e.g. Mobile Bay). – note – my father, a Navy sea-captain/line officer did not eat oysters. I learned from his father, an engine room machinist.

The bacteria have always been there. Locals and local sea food workers don’t seem to be bothered by it. It is usually some vacationing lubber who eats a bad oyster at the wrong time of the year.   I wait ‘til I’m at the shore to eat boogers-on-the-half-shell.

“2.   What are your thoughts if as I suspect we are in a period of decreasing temps - the White House which has been wrong on basically everything since Biden took over - that they plan to study ways to reflect light and reduce the temp even further - which would be bad for plants which is also bad for us via the base of the food chain.”

We are dust in the wind. In what little time we are allocated, we all think we have, in some fashion, experienced “climate change.” Climate change progresses over centuries and millennia. We are only casually embedded in the slow moving event (e.g. Milankovic’s numbers are expressed in thousands of years). Biden, Gore, Kerry, et al will be long dead by the time their hubris catches up to our successors.

Plants and animals (including Homo sapiens) adapt and evolve. Failure to do so leads to extinction. Despite all of the political clap-trap and intellectual snobbery, we humans WILL either adapt or go extinct. Rich and poor, smart and dumb, proud and humble… we are inexorably dependent upon each other. To ignore the string which connects us all is as dangerous as basing climate change on the weather over the last few decades.

It’s going to be cool for the next two days. But wait until next Tuesday to predict the next Ice Age.