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A winter of reasons supporting global warming

For the last five years, it seems like ever summer is hotter than that last, and "summer" has been extending into Thanksgiving and Christmas! I personally went golfing twice last December in 75 degree weather, and that was the first time I actually didn't resent global warming. But I wasn't the only person that keeps noticing extreme weather "winter". Here is some other crazy stuff that happened in our world last winter.

Starting in Wisconsin, this winter they had over 80 inches of snowfall, which is 14 inches more than has ever been recorded. They also had a few tornadoes in January. There was a storm up north that dumped a foot of rain in a 24 hour period, and had wind gusts of over 130 miles per hour.

It also snowed in Baghdad for the first time in 100 years, and temperatures dropped to below freezing in just as many. Here is a great pictures of some Iraqi kids playing in the snow.



This year's Chinese Ice Festival had no ice because it was too hot to keep it frozen. The Iditarod race in Alaska had to be moved even farther north so they could find snow. Some cities in the United States are making "ice skating ponds" because they don't freeze. And there was a very rare tropical storm, Olga, in the middle of December. Tropical storms and hurricanes aren't usually active until May or June. The wild-fires in California this year is been bigger than any other year, and they've been more frequent as well.

Now of course none of these things by themselves can be linked directly to global warming, but when you look at the frequency and severity of all these things, it can make anybody think something might be going on. And for all your nay-sayers out there, I leave you with a quote from Chip Giller: "So-called 'global warming' is just a ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean out our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21-st century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don't let them get away with it". So eve if you don't believe in global warming, what's wrong with wanting to live cleaner, better and safer?


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