We Are Having a Heatwave

Not really. The technical defintion of three ninety degree days will not happen. Still with Sunday, Monday and today showing tempertures in the high seventies and tempertires slated for the mid to upper eighties on Wednesday and Thursday we certainly feel like we are having a heat wave.

Tonight sitting outside with the dog, throwing a toy for him I noticed that the trees are budding. The birds are happy and there are even biting insects flying around. It is still March. This is rare, I am sure the temps have been record setting and will continue to be for the next couple of days.

Is this a sign of global warming. I do not know. It was in the eighties in St Louis last week. It is warm everywhere. I remember reading about it being in the seventies in Chicago in January a year or so ago and a writer advising that those celebrating the tempertures were doing the equivalent of fiddling while Rome burned. I just cannot get shook up about global warming. I know that I should. I do believe that it exists. I do not deny it. My position is not as a denier, it is as a person who does not neccisarily think that we can make any real change and certainly does not feel that we should make changes while the rest of the world does not.

So tonight at dinner we talked about the weather we all agreed that if it was global warming we might as well enjoy it. That is kind of a silly answer. It is better than losing sleep though of course our left wing friends would like us to do just that.

What is the answer. Enjoy the sun. Enjoy the warmth. Vote for candidates from the right or left who have a real plan for energy independence from petroleum products, and especially for the Middle East. Do not lose sleep. Wear sunscreen. Expect to be treated like a grown up by politicians and do not abandon them when they do.