Global Warming vs. Climate Change
I've noticed in the past twenty-four hours that "global warming," the term, has been replaced with "climate change" by those in the know. Maybe it is a Republican thing, kind of like replacing "Christmas" with "Holiday Season" is a Democrat and governcrat (formally called bureaucrat) thing.
Watched Al Gore's "An Inconvient Truth", which used both terms, and ABC's "The Last Days on Earth", which stuck with climate change. Interesting that climate change was the number one concern of the seven most deadly potential calamities:
I think this was the order:
1. Climate Change
2. Manufactured Pandemic
3. Nuclear War
4. Asteroid Collision
5. Volcanic Activity
6. Intelligent Machines
7. Altering DNA
However, the Mayans, who had a calander ending December 21, 2012, may have discovered a castrophy ahead of the asteroid heading toward us in 2029 and again even closer in 2037.
Of all of the potential happenings, the climate change one is easiest to notice and just about the only one I can do something about, even if in some very small way. It is happening here, as Western Washington becomes warmer and with more severe weather.
When I grew up, we skated on Kitsap Lake in the winters of the 1950s. People even drove cars on it. Kitsap Lake has not frozen over in more than 20 years, not even once.
When we visited Mt. Rainier in the summer, we used to stop and play in the Nisqually Glacier caves next to the road. Those caves are now twenty-year-old trees and what little there is left of the glacier is no longer in sight.
November was the wettest month in the last 100 years, and a day in December the wettest day. 2006 was the sixth wettest year and that was with four months of zero rain. Eight of the 14 wettest years have occurred in the past ten years. We had the strongest windstorm since 1962.
We are in the midst of a climate change in Washington.
Worldwide, the ice is melting; the world is warming.
I remember the time when important people in suits would say smoking cigarettes didn't kill. Now important people in suits dispute global warming. I wonder if they are related to the cigarette people.
Watched Al Gore's "An Inconvient Truth", which used both terms, and ABC's "The Last Days on Earth", which stuck with climate change. Interesting that climate change was the number one concern of the seven most deadly potential calamities:
I think this was the order:
1. Climate Change
2. Manufactured Pandemic
3. Nuclear War
4. Asteroid Collision
5. Volcanic Activity
6. Intelligent Machines
7. Altering DNA
However, the Mayans, who had a calander ending December 21, 2012, may have discovered a castrophy ahead of the asteroid heading toward us in 2029 and again even closer in 2037.
Of all of the potential happenings, the climate change one is easiest to notice and just about the only one I can do something about, even if in some very small way. It is happening here, as Western Washington becomes warmer and with more severe weather.
When I grew up, we skated on Kitsap Lake in the winters of the 1950s. People even drove cars on it. Kitsap Lake has not frozen over in more than 20 years, not even once.
When we visited Mt. Rainier in the summer, we used to stop and play in the Nisqually Glacier caves next to the road. Those caves are now twenty-year-old trees and what little there is left of the glacier is no longer in sight.
November was the wettest month in the last 100 years, and a day in December the wettest day. 2006 was the sixth wettest year and that was with four months of zero rain. Eight of the 14 wettest years have occurred in the past ten years. We had the strongest windstorm since 1962.
We are in the midst of a climate change in Washington.
Worldwide, the ice is melting; the world is warming.
I remember the time when important people in suits would say smoking cigarettes didn't kill. Now important people in suits dispute global warming. I wonder if they are related to the cigarette people.
posted by John | 11:05 AM
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