Jan 04 2007
Soon to be our winters.. Yeah!

Ahhh.. “Feels Like Global Warming!”

Is it the beginning of January or a week before spring? This is the winter that will probably happen over a weekend, about an inch of snow on a Sunday that melts in time for rush hour traffic.

On the Weather Channel over the weekend they were talking about how warm it is from California to Maine. Everyone is experiencing temperatures way above average. To this point, Colorado is the only place that’s been hit by snow.

And that doesn’t look to change anytime soon. Tomorrow it should hit 60 in New York. Anyone who saw Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth has visions of polar ice caps steadily melting away. Funny thing is, not one person on the Weather Channel mentions global warming or the possibility of it.

It’s like watching a horror movie and the person walks into a house of cannibals. Blood is dripping from the ceiling and there are strange noises coming from the walls, the person says, hmm that’s strange and has sex on a bunkbed.

You watch it not believing how dumb they are, it’s so obvious they are about to be filet-mignoned. Yet, it’s balls to the walls until the wilderbeast jumps out of the closet. He was there all the time. Now they want to fall on the floor and trip down the hallway.

The absence of hurricanes last year made some people think global warming was bullshit. You know, because of all the talk of them being a for-sure after effect of rising temperatures. Who knows how nature stirs things up, what’s certain is that 60 in January isn’t normal.

And it really does make me wonder, what’s happening up top?

Let’s see. Uh oh.. “ancient ice sheet breaks from Ellesmere Island”

That’s not good.

The only answer to global warming is for major industrial countries to enforce tighter emission standards: clear the fog in the air and maybe nature will reverse itself.

Which nearly every country is willing to do except the U.S. and that kind of defeats the purpose considering this is the little country that kicks ass and pumps fumes like no one else.

Think China and India may have a problem as well.

President Bush has no interest in anyone’s Kyoto agreement. He agrees the world is warming, but says no one knows what’s causing it. So with no guarantee any effort to stop global warming, man-made or otherwise will work, Bush says let’s do absolutely nothing.

That makes sense. The only possible fallout is having the entire earth’s atmosphere change in record time.

As long as it results in spring temperatures in January, no one is ever going to care.

Those slow changes are like cooking a frog in a pot of water: heat him up slow and it’s too late when the bubbling starts.

Some people don’t like to know things like… Hey, uh, the earth is doomed.. and I honestly I have no idea what I can do in my every day life to stop global warming. Unless there is an earth approved muffler you can screw on your car, what do you do?

That aspect of Al Gore’s presentation went “whoosh” in one ear and, are you kidding me.. out the other. Still Inconvenient Truth is the 101 on all things warmed over.

Rent it. Buy it. Watch it.

I’m gonna rewind it..  So, did he say bicycle?


☼ What's Your Opinion? ☼

1 calmsensual1 Thu, Jan 04, 2007 - 5:04 pm

Although its pretty cold where im at (around 40 degrees which is normal for the part of tx im in), It’s hard to deny the effects of global warming like so many tycoons and politicians are doing right now. The horrible part is that some major companies like exxon are doing what tobacco companies did decades ago. We all know that smoking causes lung cancer and similarly pollution causes global warming. But if you’re making a billion a day, i would probably say the same thing. The most disheartening part of all this is when i was watching the national geographic channel the other day, videographers caught on tape an incredibly rare event in that a glacier in the arctic broke apart right before the camera’s very lens. Not a big deal? Well it was a rare glacier colored in blue which means it was there for 1 million plus years. Man managed to destroy a one million year old object in less than 100 years. Thats amazing.

2 blakedaking Tue, Jan 09, 2007 - 5:17 pm

i was thinking the same thing last week when it got into the 60’s around the boston area. it felt like a spring/summer day. people were out, cars were blasting their music with the windows down, and BBQ’s. it was nice, but it feels weird. seasons are seasons, and when it is meant to be brick out is should be. but the US probably doesnt care.

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