I am sitting here in my mountain home at 7:30 pm the end of October with my windows and
doors open. It was in the upper 70’s
today as it has been for nearly the whole month. I thought earlier this month that the cool
weather was here but it seemed to just be a blip on the weather map. Tomorrow is forecast to be even warmer. If the weather gurus are correct we should be
back to more seasonal temperatures by the first of next week.
I moved to the mountains to live in the summer of 2008 and
with the exception of the first part of the winter 2009-2010 the winters have
been pretty warm and the summers almost hot.
The old timers around here comment on how unusual the weather has been. A lot has been said to play down the effects
of climate change but from my point of view it is real and we as a society need
to accept that like it or not things are changing and we need to prepare for
that change. Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t do a whole lot of good when
that new house you built on the North Carolina coast gets flooded or you don’t have
water in that new house you built in Nevada.
this is a link to the Frontline program on the climate debate
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