Where the Fuck is Winter?
SUNDAY JANUARY 7 2007 1:00 PM
Submitted by Anabel. Edited By legionnaire.
TAGS: global warming, climate change, earth, environment, greenhouse gases
Season? What seasons?
As historically-high temperatures rocked the Northeast yesterday with the mercury climbing to a balmy 72 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City's Central Park—even warmer than sunny Southern California—the muddy ski slopes are empty as people shed their winter clothes in favor of t-shirts and confused cherry blossom trees began to bloom while bewildered geese fly the wrong way.
Meanwhile, it was recently discovered via satellite images that a piece of the Canadian Arctic ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields broke off, and we haven't even reached "spring" yet.
Even the snowstorms that rocked the American Midwest over the last couple of weeks may be due to this warming trend, say scientists.
There has been "a fairly rapid rise of globally average temperatures, also temperatures in the United States, since about the mid-1970s," said David Easterling of the National Climate Data Center.
The records from the National Climate Data Center show that over the last 55 years, especially the last 20, the number of unusually warm days and warm nights has steadily increased.
The supercomputers that predicted all this decades ago have grown even more powerful. What do they project for the years immediately ahead, if greenhouse gas emissions are not drastically cut worldwide?
"Over the next two or three decades, we will see a trend of just more frequent warm spells and less frequent cold snaps," said Jerry Meehl, a climatologist.
I, for one, feel like a fucking asshole enjoying these warm temperatures while knowing in the back of my mind that there is a good chance they may lead to massive death and destruction within my lifetime. In fact, it gets me so bummed out I'm pretty certain I don't want to bring a child into this overheating world.
What can we do, though? It's no secret that America is a total slacker compared to the rest of the world when it comes to curbing the pollution and waste that cause these climate extremes. With 2007 set to be the hottest year to-date, we have to do something.
Liberal, conservative, whatever...This affects us all.
Please consider taking action now.

















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