Watching The Weather Change, Right Outside

MOST OF MY LIFE I've lived in America's mid section, and I've always paid attention to the weather. Doesn't everyone? It seems to me that the weather has changed. I think the winters have gotten milder, and the summers have gotten longer and drier, over the past fifty years. I don't think I'm making this up. Over just the past few years I think I've noticed this more and more, and I wonder whether I would have the same opinion if I hadn't been bombarded and inundated with global warming messages for over thirty years. My best guess is that I would indeed have noticed a change, but would wonder whether I was imagining it. Most noticeable to me is that spring begins earlier, and the trees lose their leaves later, in what has become a generally longer growing season. Around here, I remember when spring did not start in February, as it does now, and we didn't have to mow our lawns in October. I would be perfectly happy to deny climate change, to assume that it is merely somebody's fertile imagination working overtime, but the evidence in front of my eyes tells me otherwise. Milder winters, longer, drier summers are part of the predictions for man made climate change science. Arguments against climate change are so ridiculous as to be laughable. Is it possible that some people really believe that the whole thing is a conspiracy among liberals who want bigger government, or scientists who want more research money from government? Goethe said: "We resist the truth only because we would perish if we accepted it." Or maybe, if we accepted the truth, our biases and prejudices would be called into question, so we avoid the truth. Now I wonder not only how much longer I will live, as most people my age probably do, but I also wonder what the weather will be like in another twenty five years, when I might still be alive, but will probably be living the last years of my life. Twenty five years at the current rate of change might produce some very very strange weather. Its hard to imagine violent storms sweeping across the world's oceans on a daily basis, or year after year of severe drought in huge areas of the world, or the disappearance of winter altogether, but that seems to be the direction in which we are heading. I'm almost glad I will certainly not be alive in one hundred years, because by then, the situation might be extreme, even if we begin to ameliorate it now, which we have not started to do as of today..........THANKS FOR SUPPORTING CREATIVE, FREE EXPRESSION!