It's January! It's 57F! It's crazy!

Scientists say 2007 may be warmest yet - Yahoo! News:

"The short-term effects of global warming on crop production are very uneven," said Daniel Hillel, a researcher at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research. "I warn against making definitive predictions regarding any one season's weather."

What is clear is that the cumulative effect of El Nino and global warming are taking the Earth's temperatures to record heights.

"El Niño is an independent variable," Jones said. "But the underlying trends in the warming of the Earth is almost certainly a result of the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."

You know what pisses me off the most?

The year it's going to be a brown winter is the same year I bought my kids snowboards. Every previous year they were the only kids without them. Every time it would snow I'd slap my forhead for the lack of sleds and snowboards.

So here I am, feeling like a good mother for getting them their snow gear early and .... it's not going to snow.

Honestly, I can't win.

Damn you global warming!

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Mixed feelings

Several years ago, I came to the conclusion that the proof that age brings wisdom lies in the number of elderly who go south for the winter.

I grew up in Michigan, where they have real winters (Kalamazoo, Michigan's annual average snowfall is close to NYC's record). But now I'm older and wiser, and I'm ready for spring the day after the first frost.

On the other hand, as the New York Times reported Dec. 30:

A 25-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the Arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada’s northernmost shore broke away abruptly in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures and jostling wind and waves, scientists said yesterday.

Translation: We're in deep poo.

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and unfortunately

you can't snowboard on poo. it's sticky.

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It's suppossed to be El Nino's fault

At least according to NBC Nightly News, and not Global Warming. In my view it's just another misleading way to calm the masses who think it's a waste of time to recycle anyway, and make fun of those who do (happened to a friend in the big old state of Texas). It's the same masses who believed every single justification of the current administration to start a war. The media acted irresponsible then, and is acting irresponsible now with their more than laissez faire attitude. It's not only irresponsible, but also downright dangerous.

Even my six year old whose school has become a Go Green school knows the implications of global warming, goes around the house reciting the three R's: reuse, reduce, recycle, and inspects every single piece of trash in our house to see if he can use it for some art project.

Unfortunately, one day we will have to tell the masses once again:"We told you so." But by then it will be way too late to turn this around. Thanks NBC and all other "news" channels for once again downplaying a grave situation.

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Happy New Year!

I missed you. I was wondering where you went. We soooo need more estrogen in this blog Eye-wink

Yeah. It's amazing the fucking lies big media will say --and all against was even NOAA.gov will put out there. I mean, the government's metereologists admit global warming with natural occurrences like El Nino are wreaking havoc.

Shame on NBC.

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Happy New Year to you too

Just spent loads of time with kids and husband.

Regarding NBC it dawned on me that after I had written my comment: they do belong to General Electric. Go figure!

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