No, this is not some childhood joke about the forecast of Mexico. This is serious! This is grownup stuff!
The Arctic is currently going through some of the coldest conditions in over half a century. Some scientists say the readings are practically off their charts. Perhaps they need a bigger chart.
God, and/or Mother Nature, and/or basic global meteorological behaviors have conspired, consciously or not, to drop this weather down into the eastern two-thirds of the United States. People are gonna freeze their asses off. Perhaps their troubles are behind them.
In Europe, unpleasant winter weather has wreaked havoc to transportation, including disrupting the Chunnel service between France and England under the English Channel. In Korea, snowfall, the likes they haven’t seen in seventy years, is causing problems. Even Russia has been complaining, and they should be used to this stuff. Perhaps scientists have missed some steppes.
This winter weather phenomena obviously can only mean one thing…Global Warming is over. Hooray! No longer do we need do conserve energy. Gone are carbon footprints. Jobs are saved. Cows can now fart again. All is well with the world. Or maybe not.
The other third of the United States continues to burn each year. The Sahara keeps creeping towards South America. Oh, and Australia burns.
But, human nature being what it is, we can be sure that this current chill will allow our global leadership to further weaken the anemic, toothless promises of Copenhagen. We are, if nothing else, shortsighted.
Fortunately, we can be. The Mayan Calendar is coming to an end. The End of Days is nigh. Armageddon or the rapture or both will be our 2012 Christmas present. The Messiah is coming, be it his/her first (Jewish), second (Christian), third (Mormon), or more. Deus ex machina. We will be saved.
On reflection, my original statement may have been incorrect. We lack political will. We lack maturity. There will be no machina to save us, deus or otherwise. We have become the childhood joke.
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