Global Warming in California 


President Bush tells us that Global Warming is a myth, but how do you deny the strangely "warmer than normal temperatures" throughout California? 



Please look at the two pictures above. What do you find wrong with them? Sure the pear tree is blooming and looks lovely and my daughter does seem to be having fun running through the sprinklers. What is really wrong about the photos is the date of 2/9/2006. It is early February and we are in the middle of Winter! So why are the trees starting to bloom and why is it so hot outside that my daughter has decided to run around in her bathing suit and run through sprinklers? Can we say "Global Warming"?

No wait, global warming doesn't exist! President Bush told us so. It's just something that some scientists have thought up to scare the Bush administration into abiding by the Kyoto accord or perhaps to clean up the coal burning energy plants that are polluting our skies.

Still it is all rather strange... It is just the beginning of February and there are wildfires burning in Southern California. Isn't that something that happens in July or August (certainly not in February)? What about these unusually high temperatures? The weather forecast is for 73 degrees F (22 C) today. My backyard thermometer had the temperature at 80 degrees. It was so beautiful that I changed into shorts, a t-shirt and sandals and soaked in the Sun. Today was certainly lovely.

But what will be the cost of this loveliness? The weather in February is gorgeous, but what is going to happen in July or August? Will our crops start to wither on the vine? Will 115 degrees F be the new average high? What will happen to our local ecology? What will happen to our food supply? What will happen if things really start to warm up and the oceans start to rise? I currently live in a valley that is at 1 feet above sea level. Perhaps the flooding we have seen in New Orleans will start to spread to areas that have not been inundated with hurricanes. Yosemite valley was already flooded last year, perhaps there are more floods to come in California.

The weather is lovely, but I fear it is a harbinger of something far worse. 

Posted: Thu - February 9, 2006 at 03:50 PM          

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