President Obama has returned from a meeting with other world leaders who discussed methods of controlling the climate. That such a meeting was even considered goes to show us the utter lack of reality political leaders have concerning their ability to do things.

Political leaders did once do something that might have controlled the climate some. Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and the leaders of Imperial Japan started a war that reduced the population of the world considerably.

However, it was too temporary to do much concerning the climate. When the men got through fighting this war they went home and the population shot back up and has been increasing ever since. About the only ways the climate can be controlled is to have a deadly epidemic (i.e. the bubonic plague) or a world war to kill off millions of people.

I will not dispute the folks claiming the planet is heating up. I will dispute their assumption that we can do anything about it short of gigantic homicide. They seem worried that the polar ice cap is melting and this will make the oceans rise which in turn will make California and other coastal regions suffer the fate of the erstwhile continent of Atlantis. (I'm not saying there really was an Atlantis but if there was its only inhabitants are octopi and sponges.)

The planet is heating up so what else is new? Are we ignoring that the ice once extended down across Kansas? The only reason that polar bears are not roaming around Kansas now is because the planet warmed up and all that ice melted.

Another factor over all this concern about the climate is the shortness of the human memory.

Memory only lasts for a lifetime. Mine is much better than most because I am older than most of you all. Granted, there is some wild weather around right now. Up north they have more snow than old time television when streetcars went by. And down here we have lots of rain and thunderstorms. What if all this rain we are having was snow? One conversion table estimates one inch of rain equals 10 inches of powdered snow.

With my memory dating back further than those of many readers, I can remember some hellish bad weather. I can remember getting on a the first train heading out of the city one July Saturday afternoon and not getting off until it got to Stanford, Connecticut just to escape the stifling heat on the sidewalks of New York.

And having gone to school in the six months of frozen tundra known as Iowa in the winter I remember when it took at least 20 inches of blowing snow falling with heavy winds to have school called off. Here they called off school one day before an inch or two were predicted for the next day.

Carbon dioxide is getting the blame for all this heating up of the planet. I'll not dispute that, either. I did not excel in physics classes so I can't intelligently argue with folks over this. (I wonder how some of them did in physics classes.)

But I know that we are not going to cut the CO2 to any great degree. Actually, if it were cut too much all your flowers would die. The planet needs carbon dioxide. And the more people we have in the world the more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.

One has to wonder why some "save the world fanatic" has not put forth the proposal that everyone should stop exhaling one day a month.

We can't cut the CO2 much at least until somebody can figure out how to make a buck from wind and solar energy.

Maybe we wouldn't have to kill off millions of folks to change the climate. Maybe just redistributing them would help a little. For instance, 10 percent of the folks in California could be relocated to North Dakota. Of course, 75 percent of them would probably die the first winter as they tried to drive on snow-packed and icy roads.

Trivia Time

What are the hottest and coldest locations in the U.S.? Answer to last question. The First Congress met in session on Dec. 25, 1789 because Christmas was not an official holiday until 1870.

Contact George Frasher at 337-238-3433, E-mail frasher@cebridge.net.