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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas......



Just like the ones I never knew.

I lived in the country back in the 1970's and early 1980's. I remember snow drifts as high as my house. (And my brothers sledding off of the roof and onto the drifts. Crazy older brothers.)

I remember digging snow caves with rooms as big as my bathroom is right now.

I remember snow drifts so high that the snow thrower on our John Deer lawn tractor had no hope of even denting them.  We had to use shovels and the local farmers came by with front loaders on their tractors.

We are on track to be the warmest December in Buffalo history. Not by a degree or two. The National Weather Service is talking about almost/in the realm of five degrees.

That's not breaking a record.

That's shattering it.

And the conservative, climate change denying, anti global warming activists are blaming the El-Niño system off of the Pacific Coast.

I remember when they denied the existence of the El-Niño / El-Niña systems.

Anything to deflect the cause away from human behavior.

Anything to ignore all the garbage, chemicals, and other crap that we humans are dumping into the ocean, making it more acidic, and, therefore, warmer.

Anything to ignore all the smoke, exhaust, and other pollution that we humans are spewing into the air and creating toxic air to breathe (check out China now and LA back in the day) and doing other damage that heats up the atmosphere.

Anything to deny that there is a problem and that we humans have something to do with it.

Buffalo should have snow. A good foot or so of it. If it were not wet and rainy, I could have gone outside today and mowed my lawn.

Then we look at the weather that the rest of the country is getting.

And humans have nothing to do with what is going on.

Right.

Arctic ice is in decline according to NOAA satellite imagery.

Ships are sailing across the northern coast of Canada in summertime without icebreakers.

Iceland (and Greenland) are losing ice and glaciers at alarming rates.

Glacier National Park will soon have to be renamed. Its glaciers will be gone. Perhaps it will be called “The Park Formerly Known as Glacier National Park?”

Buffalo is set to smash the record for the warmest December on record.
It has broken two warmest daytime temperatures, and is likely to break another one tomorrow.
It has broken at least one warmest overnight temperature.
And, depending upon what happens next Monday and Tuesday, could break the record for the least snow in December record.

And Lake Erie is the warmest it has been, on the average if I am remembering what I heard on the news correctly.

And if we get a real winter cold front over it, Snowmageddon will look like an amateur's job.

Meanwhile, we need to get rewriting those old Christmas and holiday songs.

Future generations may not know what snow is.

So, what will Frosty be made of?


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