Any Questions?
Layered and bundled and scarfed and hatted and went out into the frozen tundra this morning for provisions.
"We can only see your eyes...are you Muslim?"
"No...just a Hoosier."
~sigh~
Yes completely...officially...without any reservations...OVER this whole winter thing.
And did I mention there is more snow on the way?
Idgy and I, gathering for our Morning coffee and chat...where it was 15 degrees in her deep Southern Tennessee town early today. And minus 1 here. Using the Great Gazoogle to look up the closest beach "to the Equator" (...Daini...only 4 miles South of it...sugar white sand...turquoise water...mind the "camel muffins"-photos showed camels strolling the beach...palm trees...and 85-90 degrees...) Toss in an umbrella drink and a couple of airline tickets and we're so there!
And if I hear one more person mouth the words
"I guess this proves that whole Global Warming Thing is a Hoax- hyuck...hyuck..hyuck"
I may drop the Zen for a moment and whang them with something right on top of their pointy little heads...
Seriously people. It's the WATER CYCLE, people. You learned it in, like, Second or Third grade.
Glaciers melt.
More Water in the Oceans.
Which means more water evaporating.
Which means more clouds and eventually
Rain and Flooding in some areas.
Snow and Ice in others when the water is hit by the colder Air.
And for some (like Africa right now) Extreme Relentless Heat.
That is why it is known as Global Warming and not "...my back yard..." warming, or"the temperature outside my window right now" warming.
And why everyone has to refer to it as Climate Change now...because you really can't FIX stupid. Thanks, Ron.
BTW...whether it is a totally natural cycle or is caused by industrialized man...or bit of both...it doesn't matter one diddley-damn. What matters is how we are going to handle it as a Species.
Adaptation or Extinction.
And I have to say...right now, a lot of you are fiddling away while Rome burns.
"Scientists have estimated that over the course of Earth's history, anywhere between 1 and 4 billion species have existed on this planet. Be it through disease, genetic obsolescence, over-predation or any number of other factors, the overwhelming majority of these species are now extinct. Of these billions of species, roughly 50 million still survive into the modern era"
-Discovery Channel
Yeah...that is right. It appears Mother Nature also happens to be a serial killer.
So as Lewis Black might remind us...we really aren't darling special little snowflakes...and we might want to quit debating about whether or not it is REAL...and work on what we are going to do about below sea level coastal cities...extreme weather events...and the like.
Just ask any Woolly Mammoth you happen to see...
