Snow on Easter Morning...in Texas and Global Warming

After almost two weeks of beautiful spring time weather, Mother Nature monkey wrenched the Easter plans a little.

 

The early morning visit of the Easter Bunny that was to coincide with the release from early church was altered by snow...in Texas...when it was 70 the previous day.

 

Woo hoo!

 

The hunting of Easter Eggs went forward only in the living room because once the snow did stop, it was followed by rain and general coldness.

 

By three in the afternoon, it was a fairly pleasant 60 to 65.

 

Someone tell me the one again about global warming. I get the impression that weather patterns may be shifting, but I just don't know if I buy global warming. We have almost a decade now of milder Texas summers. And the last two have been much wetter than they have been at any time in my memory which clocks in at 38 years now. When we talk about global warming, I expect Texas to become more Mojave-like. But that doesn't appear to be the case...at least not yet.

 

So there is less snow and ice at the poles than there has been in the past...and how long have they been able to measure those places in person?

 

Oh, you mean we've been able to measure them foreve...

 

Oh, you mean we've been able to measure them for two hundre...

 

Oh, you mean we've been able to measure them for about 45 years or so.

 

45 years...that tells me that my internal barometer based here in beautiful Irving, Texas probably has as much relevancy as the crap that some scientists are throwing down.

 

Let's not forget that this is the future. Remember when we were kids, by 2001 we were supposed to have jet packs, flying cars and men on Jupiter's moons searching for Arthur Clarke's monoliths.

 

In the word's of Red Foreman, "Where's my freaking jetpack?"

 

puff

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