Saturday, December 11, 2021

Dodging Tornadoes In December

I WENT TO BED at the end of a warm breezy day, temperature in the mid seventies, in mid America, mid December. As I lay there snuggling with my cats, I noticed what seemd like lightning, and went outside to check. Indeed, the sky was full of big time lightning, coming from all directions, huge bright flashes, with thunder and high winds. A huge storm was approaching. It arrived, but didn't last long. On the radio and television tornado warnings were issued for our area,my town wea mentioned as being right in the path, and nervously I prepared tohid in the bathroom, but, fortunateluy, never needed to. Another bullet, dodged. As the night proceeded, a massive outbreak of tornados swarmed across the lower American midwest, Arkansas, Mmissouri, and Kentucky in paritcular, doing heavy damage and killing as many as a hundred people, and maybe more. As the reports came in, nobody said anything about the strangeness of having a huge outbreak of tornadoes in the middle of December. Its almost as if we have become so accustomed to freakish weather, to climate change, that we already take it for granted, or, on the other end of the spectrum of insanity, where the right wingers lurk, climate change is so obvously a liberal and Chinese hoax that it isn't worth mentioning, December tornadoes or no. Its time to say something about climate change. Let's say this: toradoes in December are not supposed to happen, much less massive otubreaks of them the sort of which we are accustomed to having in the middle of the United States in April and May. April and May, yes, December? No. The fact that October has become a summer month, with temperatures reaching the mid eighties daily in mid America is evidence, convincing evidence, of climate change. So are the pretty flowers bursting forth from the soil in February. Ditto the prolonged droughts and heatwaves of summer, the lack of snow in the winter, and the seventy degree temperatures in December and throughout the winter. But, a massive outbreak of tornadoes two weeks before Christmas? Folks, this is becoming serious. All the scientists, who have been right all along for decades, now say that they are shocked and horrifed by how rapidly climate change is occurring, how rapidly the planet is globally warming, much more rapidly than they ever thought would be the case. It now seems evident that climate change is not something that our descendants will have to deal with, to experience the worst of, decades in the future. Climate change is something we the living are already dealing with, and, will evidently see the worst of...maybe as soon as next year. Bear in mind that a large percentage of registered Republicans still insist that dlimate change is a hoax, and that thes people vote. They need to be educated, outvoted, or both.

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