We watched Bing Crosby's White Christmas this year, never seen it, the premise, was that as they got to Vermont circa 1944, it was a freakishly warm unsnowy mid-December.  The difference there was that a week after that,  probably went down to minus 10 for two weeks, I'll bet anyone a crisp hundred dollar bill we won't have a straight week of subzero again this winter or any other.  We'll have this upcoming cold snap that tapers the mercury upward toward summer, maybe a big late slush storm in March that melts in two days, it'll be nice while it lasts.

   It's the tossing around of conspiracy theory or not,  and passion towards whichever side of the fence you are on/big money influencing you how to believe on it, that's kinda weird.  Just another thing for people to argue about.

I heard the moose population is being decimated because of the rise of ticks.  It's amazing how the DNR responded to that, hunting wise.

It's good to hear the stories about orange balls and stuff though.  An old-school winter like that is simply not possible now.  I never thought global weirding would go this far this fast, Quirtep.  All I know is that 42 degrees two weeks after x-mas isn't normal, whatever normal is.  And given it used to snow tons, weird that when it does snow, just kind of passes over Duluth now and hits the outlaying areas.  I'm expecting another superstorm like clockwork June 21, too bad it won't be below freezing. 

Listening to the radio now, Bob Dylan sings, "don'tcha know, the sun can burn your brains out."

Then i like how some folks chime in with their latest jewels of wisdom they got from the Sarah Palin show where they heard the earth has always had cycles of warming and cooling... like they've personally spanned time to pass on this grandfatherly knowledge to us, when in fact they get all their info from a snowblind bimbo in horn rimmed glasses who worships at the temple of baby Jesus.

Just remember Zedhead, you cross that bad bitch on a Sunday, they'll find your balls in a pile of wolf scat on the Alaskan tundra,  cept they'll be thawing in January.

Joel, can you get me any of that shit?  It must be awesome.  I want to take back any of this bitching about the warm weather I've done before the cold snap hits.  Is it too late?  Tomorrow when it's cold again, I won't believe in global warming until the next thaw.

But let me try to follow your logic through and correct me where necessary.

Because the extreme right believes the earth was created in a week, and therefore whatever ways man wrecks the planet, must be part of His 'plan,' then, manmade global warming isn't real, because we'll be saved in the rapture which won't happen if we try to stop it with science, and the fact that the other half of the population is upset about having 'to be saved' means there is too much arguing, and that makes you angry, which is why you don't believe the science, but you're sustainable anyway? 

I have some expensive embossed paper in my house too, it's called Charmin.  Politic$ and Religion$.

"The impact of concrete upon the modern world is large. The usage of concrete, world wide, is twice as much as steel, wood, plastics, and aluminum combined."

If you've ever flown in a jet airplane, or looked out over the lake and seen how the earth curves, you'll discover the earth really isn't that large.  It's 8,000 miles across.  Every piece of concrete that is made uses limestone that must be heated to 1200 degrees, concrete is one of the many hidden causes of greenhouse gases, one of the largest. 

 If you fly in the plane, you see millions of tiny little cars driving around.  Domesticated animals release something like 20 billion liters of methane per day, let alone people, let alone the deforestation required to sustain them, let alone deforestation of rainforests etc visible from space.  But forget warming, how about pollution? 

 It amazes me there are people who call themselves scientists who, in spite of the fact the earth is a tiny little ball, packed with billions of cars and flatulating people, go on believing foolishly, we have no collective impact on the planet, when even beavers do. More amazing is the fact accredited institutions issue them degrees (even though this only requires money.)  I'm sorry my tone upsets you Joel, but your naivety baffles me.  At least we agree the earth has always had cycles of change.  And people are just another one of those cycles.  It all comes out in the wash.

This is what happens when I can't even ski in January.  I get like the rest of world and start taking myself way too seriously.  I become that which I loathe, kind of a Tolkien theme in there somewhere.

All this talk of selfish people destroying the planet has me really thinking about adopting a few Syrian kids, probably girls as they tend away from violence, and I like their energy better...or at least trying to figure out how to send them some sleeping bags and shoes.  Can anyone tie in global warming and greedy rich people destroying the planet to why the world isn't responding fast enough to the giant crisis in Damascus?