Frosted in June

So Mitch McConnell was playing with a snowball in the Senate chambers cracking a joke about global warming.

I wish he was at my house on Thursday and Friday.

I had frost on my car that I had to scrape off so that I could go to work.

I should have made a recording and tweeted it to that bag of hot air.

It's (insert profanity of choice here, or none at all) June for crying out loud. I shouldn't be dealing with frost on my car. I should be worrying about how hot it is going to be. I'm heat sensitive for migraines. It's more medication to take. And sick days. Sick days means that the company can't make a profit off my labor. Perhaps McConnell should think about that.

Instead I was scraping ice. Ice yesterday, and quite warm today. Part of the wacky cycle that we have that is called “climate change.”

What the climate deniers do is confuse the argument. They take one small part of the equation – global warming – and then play with it any way they can. Except when it is inconvenient to them.

So snow in winter proves that it's not getting warmer. And the “polar vortex” also shows that. (Right. Snow in Texas and Florida means the weather is just fine. And when Buffalo is colder than Fairbanks Alaska in January, nothing is wrong.)

Climate change means that the weather patters are getting messed up and that we will see all sorts of changes in the patterns. Freakishly warm winters. Excessively hot summers. And then there are the droughts and year long forest fire seasons in California. (Nebraska lost around 400,000 acres this year to a wildfire? Hello reality?)

Global warming means that the average temperature on the planet is rising. Faster than the historical norm. This means warmer winters and hotter summers. Drought. Less snow melt to fill the Great Lakes, so lower lake water levels. And dry creeks. So less fishing. And deer go where there is food and water. None around here. So hunting season was terrible for the people that I talked to. On every level – deer, turkey, pheasant, and whatever animals they go after. Except squirrels. Some guy had too many squirrels on his property, so he bought an air rifle and is now sick of squirrel stew.

You won't find any deniers talking about that.

Especially when they are scraping ice off of their cars in June.