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.
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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