Dec 18 2002
Break Out the Sunblock!
A week before Christmas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and it’s 55 degrees outside. In another 50 years, scientists expect the Arctic North to be ice free during certain months of the year. How are my grandchildren going to buy the whole Santa deal when the North Pole is covered in slush instead of snow?
Will Santa have to reinvent himself to be believable in the world we’re leaving to them?? Will he be wearing bermuda trunks and a golf visor in place of his traditional Red Santa Suit and Black Santa Boots, using a Jet-ski instead of his Sleigh to deliver presents to children around the world on Christmas Eve? After all, once the ice caps melt, we’ll all be blessed with ocean-side property — especially here in Milwaukee where either coast will only be a few hours drive, just like Florida! — so maybe they won’t have such a hard time believing the Santa-in-a-Jet-Ski theory.
But global warming is just a myth according to our administration, so I have nothing to worry about… Yup, just another winter with above average temperatures, I’ll just have to start getting used to it.
I think our administration thinks natural selection’s a myth, too.
The santa lie is something I wouldn’t mind seeing go away. Nothing better than having one of the first few concepts your authority figure (e.g. parent) tells you in life be a complete fabrication.
But, whether you want to admit it or not, you bought it — at least until another authority figure confirmed that it wasn’t true. Makes you wonder what else you bought without question.
monday here it was -10C with a windchill of -23C, and tomorrow it’s supposed to go to +7C
2002 was the warmest year on record since….. 2001
apparently, eight of the top ten warmest years in north america since 1860 have occurred since 1990
but i ain’t worried at all, because all these temps are within two sigmas of normal
Ironically, the melting of the polar ice from global warming can cause colder winters (possibly even a “mini-ice age”) due to all that ice water affecting the ocean currents…
Hard to remember what normal weather is like anymore.
Rudy .. you guys are only going up to +7 tomorrow ? neener, neener .. We’re gonna hit +10 .. then again we had -30 with windchill Mon/Tues night. I hope the weather is good for me driving down either Sunday or Monday.
…is the thought of an old fat guy in Bermuda shorts. (Black socks or not.)
You guys living in North America (and Europe) have no idea what warm weather is till you come to Singapore where the weather is no less than 20 degrees Celcius (did I spell that right?) all year round and December mornings have the habit of being about 30 degrees.