Global Warming Update

Sydney, Australia is reporting their coolest Summer in 50 years.
This is their summertime, f0lks, south of the equator and all.
As a result, their tourism industry is suffering mightily.

Here in the states, many of you that live North of the Mason-Dixon line can attest to the coldest and snowiest winter in many years.

My brother-in-laws Ken and Raymond are 'enjoying' the armpit deep snow in the Boston area.

And in Texas, where we lived for fourteen years they are experiencing heavy snow and severe Winter weather as I write this missive.
We never had any ice storms after Valentines Day during our entire soujourn there.

The average worldwide temperature rise during the recent warming trend was .6 degree, according to experts. That's not 6 degrees, but six/tenths of one degree.

And now Sun Spot activity seems to be returning to normal, and many weather experts are admitting that we are entering another cooling trend.

No need to be alarmed, this is all perfectly normal cyclical temperature and weather patterns.

I remember a cover story in a major news magazine in 1975 warning of a coming ice age.
"Skating on the Hudson river, blizzards in Miami and Buenos Aires, blah blah blah!"

One thing that Uncle Dinosaur has learned in his 50 some odd years of life is to ignore the Prophets of Doom. Life has enough to provoke legitimate concern to waste time worrying about something that we cannot change, ie' the weather.

I learned this week that the founder and President of the Weather Channel is suing a former Senator and V.P. who has made a second career (and a heap of money in the process) in spreading the Global Warming gospel.
The gospel that is increasingly being 'weighed in the balance and found wanting'

Of course, said ex-politico turned weather expert needs to fly all over the world in his private fuel sucking jet to do so, when not living in various Mc Mansions and driving his fleet of SUV's.
But he has initiated a series of carbon footprint offsets, so everything is Hunky-Dory.
Word is he planted a tree.