Global Warming

It’s not here yet. At least, not the way I expected; I had planned for a little warmer Spring than we’re going through at the moment. The temps have been a bit on the low side during the day, with a touch of frost in the higher elevations at night. Parts of Colorado and Arizona have snowfall.

I know global warming is real; just look at the trends over the last hundred years. You’d have to be an industrialist, an oil company exec or the current sitting President to deny it. The rise in temperature is slight, as we figure things, but not so slight as Mother Nature looks at the thermometer. A half-degree here, a quarter-degree there … it all adds up to either another Little Ice Age (last one was 10,000 years ago) or a glacier-melting, seaside-city flooding warming. Three more degrees higher should just about do it.

There’s a lot of water locked up as ice in the north and south poles. We were kinda hoping it would stay there, all frozen and white. But when you hear of huge chunks of ice breaking off the Antarctic, things big enough to be compared to a certain state, then we’re in trouble.

Buy waterfront property in Pennsylvania. The dikes around New York City will louse up your view of the Hudson River, but the people who lived in what was New Orleans before it completely flooded out, say that you will get used to it.

It only took a three-degree increase in temperature.