Lawman

While I started out as a chem major, P. Chem did me in. But not before I'd had a dose of physics. The current issue in the Red West is the confluence of global warming, possibly El Nino, and the many decades old lie about water flows through the Colorado. Many chickens have come home to roost. We well watered and temperate New Englanders will not accept climate refugees from the Red West; especially not Texas.

All of which reminds me of the Laws of Thermodynamics. You can find many articles on the innterTubes, but one professor (of many, I suspect) put it thus:
- the first law says you can't get something for nothing
- the second law says you can't even break even

Some wag I read long ago blamed our current level of political dysfunction on the invention of air conditioning, particularly central and window units for houses. Air conditioning made it possible for hordes of sub-GED rednecks to procreate at break neck speed, thus leading to them asserting that their brand of society (ante-bellum) is superior; and all that.

One can also find on the innterTubes estimates of the added burden of global warming due to those two laws: that air conditioning unit next to your 70° house in 110° Phoenix spits out hot air. Who wooda thunk it?