While it seems obvious to me, I thought I'd just sort of offhandledly point out that it's perhaps less a global warming trend, than it is some phenomenon that involves wilder swings in all aspects of the worldwide weather patterns. Some places have seen abnormally colder weather patterns, getting worse every year, while other areas have experienced significantly hotter weather. These conditions apparently can co-exist, and observations of some changes in regional weather _aren't_ necessarily harbingers of any particular "sea-change," because someone else is experiencing just the opposite extremes of weather.
So, it seems it's a pattern of abnormally high temps and low temps, depending on where you live. And it also drives (or is driven by?) winds aloft, developing more and more violent hurricanes. At least for the sub-tropical, northern hemisphere Atlantic trade, by which I mean the north latitudes from about 15 to 35 degrees. . . The National Weather service has had to add (or is thinking of adding?) another number to represent the most severe level of hurricane power. Used to be a 4 was the worst. Now I believe it's a level 5? I don't think we (the U.S.) have experienced this in recent centuries. . . why now? I make note that this see-saw weather pattern is not true of the polar land masses, which are indeed shrinking; the effect is frighteningly ominous, if you've read anything at all about how much water those polar ice caps contain. . . Anyhow, discussions of global weather changes will be the subject of truth and fiction for years and years to come. Frightening and fascinating, all at once. . . keith whaley graywolf wrote: > > Since it is already far colder here than it was last winter, I must report the > turn about in the warming trend, and the return of the ice age. If something is > not done immediately these mountains could be buried under ice in a mere 10,000 > years. > > -- > graywolf > http://graywolfphoto.com
