This has so far been the hottest year since records have been kept, and it's also the driest, with 63% of our land mass experiencing drought conditions, hence the wildfires. And if you watch the news, it seems like the other 37% is flooding. Things are just completely upside down.
Want more proof the end is near? The official NOAA forecast for Dallas over the next five days calls for a 30-50% chance of rain every day, with the high temperatures in the upper 80's. Pinch me!
And now we have an invasion, caused by an abnormal amount of rain earlier in the year, of mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus. It's become so bad in Dallas County (I'm in Collin County, north of Dallas) that they have brought in a private air force to fog the area with an insecticide that will kill the nasty little buggers. Now if there are any more mysterious deaths the medical examiner will have to decide if it's from the WNV or from ingesting the insecticide that is supposed to kill the WNV. (Better living through chemistry!)
OK, now follow closely: Very unexpectedly, scientists have found that the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the US has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years. That's good, right?
Hmmmm....I'm wondering if maybe our atmosphere has undergone some sort of evolutionary change and has actually become used to CO2, so taking 20% of it out has actually pissed off the atmosphere, and now it's retaliating. Maybe all these droughts and fires and floods and mosquitoes are just the consequence of a cleaner atmosphere.
Maybe its time we park all those Prius's and plug-ins and pull the covers off our beloved big block Chevy's. Let's muck things up a little! Fresh air is SO overrated. ;)
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Well Detroit will be doing its part this weekend with the Woodward Dream Cruise, where thousands of old gas-guzzling, polluting cars will be driving very slowly through the Metro Detroit area.
ReplyDeleteIt must be really hard for climate change scientists not to go running around this year screaming, "See, I told you so!"
Hooked on CO2 - that's an...interesting...angle. Heh.
ReplyDeleteI see all those stats about control over the environment but if you look at long term patterns of the sun and its output you will find the culprit to the warming of the earth and the change in weather.
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I do believe in Climate Change--Global warming just confuses people. But changes are also natural. It's interesting that when the Vikings discovered Greenland they named it Vreeland, which means land of grapes because they found greenery and an abundance of vines growing. A hundred years later the weather changed and it was so cold that not even intrepid Vikings could survive. Still, we humans aren't helping matters.
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