….. I-got-my-head-in-the-sand-and-I-ain’t-coming-up-for-air department on global warming.

While searching a federal Web site for information on Hurricane Jeanne, we came across a news item sure make the “Earth in the Balance” gang break out into a cold sweat.

“NOAA REPORTS COOL SUMMER, SEVENTH COLDEST AUGUST ON RECORD ACROSS THE LOWER 48 STATES,” the headline blared on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s site.

Never mind that NOAA did not say this was proof that global warming was a myth… but when you’re grasping at straws almost anything will do ‘eh? A little more research would have told them that

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered global warming may not be as severe in the central U.S. as it is in other parts of the country. Using a detailed regional climate model, scientists at Iowa State’s Regional Climate Modeling Laboratory estimate summertime daily maximum temperatures will warm less in a region centered on eastern Kansas than anywhere else in the United States.

The facts are that the ice cover on the arctic ocean is getting thiner each year, glaciers are melting faster than ever before, huge chunks of the ice shelves at both poles have broken off and floated away, and the weather is getting more volatile.

The other fact is that people with even 1/2 a clue between their ears are concerned with what is happening and where it will go - at some point governments will get on board, some are already starting…. others will follow.

The nay sayers of the ilk of the people who wrote the first news item I quoted need not fear though, even if they are not directly affected by global warming & climate change in their immediate area, they will feel the heat (as it were) as things go for a crap in other areas - we all will.

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