Thanks and best wishes to the family that stopped and gave us a ride last night after D.'s car broke down following an unexpected encounter with 12 standing inches of flood water.
I drove her to class at U of L this morning, and one of the streets next to campus appeared to have a lake about the size of Patoka spread through it.
Ever notice how these severe weather events are coming more quickly and often than before? Thank heavens we have Dick Cheney's assurance that global warming is no more than a figment of Al Gore's tortured imagination.
Roger, are you saying that some bouts of heavy rains in our little corner of the world are a good indication of global warming?
ReplyDeleteDo you think it's possible you are "noticing" something just because the topic happens to be a current item of alarmist thought?
Can you really think back into your life and say you really sat down and thought about the heavy rains you experienced and wondered if anything was out of the ordinary? How can your memory really be indicative of anything being different than before since at the time we may have received heavy rains before, you simply were not thinking about it?
Do you remember any periods of heavy rains occuring when you were younger? Did anyone around you comment about it in any significant way? Did they ever refer to their memories of other bouts of heavy rains?
And if you did think much about those heavy rains, does that period of history (the last 30-40 years or so) tell us much about significant changes in weather patterns throughout the planet?
I have become totally neutral on the global warming issue as of late mostly because of the loads and loads of confusing and contradicting data. And the fact that politics seems to be so strongly tied to it.
Yes.
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