Freezing In America, For Now

BY NOW, THE REST OF THE WORLD is probably getting a bit tired of listening to Americans complaining about their cold weather. We Americans are certainly getting tired of complaining about it. But honestly, we truly have something to complain about this time. Are we experiencing global warming, or global freezing? It makes sense to assume that the more energy you put into the atmosphere, the more energetic your weather will be. The problem with the climate change "debate" is that it is always expressed in terms of extremes. It seems that we are either headed directly towards complete disaster, or, that we have absolutely nothing to worry about, and any climate crises is purely imaginary. The idea that climate change is a hoax is particularly interesting, because it calls into question how millions of people can conspire to perpetrate a hoax of any sort. Over the past few summers, I have started to wonder what it would be like if the temperature hit one hundred degrees fahrenheit in early June; and stayed there for the entire summer, in normally moderate middle America; weeks at a time. You know its possible. Wasn't it in eighteen seventeen when there was no summer whatsoever in the American Northeast? The summer months were mostly rain and snow that year, with only a tiny amount of plant growth, near the end of the "Little Ice Age", which happened from about thirteen hundred to eighteen fifty. So, you never know. No single weather pattern can be used to substantiate climate change. But we certainly seem to have a great deal of unusual, extreme, and energetic weather these days.