Stan Geiger

Global Warming Continues

News reports are referring to an "epic snow storm" in Washington, D.C. The city has been hit with a couple of feet of snow. They say the storm ranks as one of the top five DC snow storms in the city's history.

As that goes on, the president cracks wise on TV. It's easy to laugh about such a storm when one gets special treatment, of course. I'm sure the tens of thousands that have lost power and been immobilized find no humor in the event.

I guess we can take solace in the fact that Obama didn't go on TV claiming he inherited the storm from George Bush.

It's been a bad winter all over. The northeast has been pounded. The midwest has been pounded. California is up to its butt in rain. Florida oranges have been frozen.

Here in Tulsa, people are about to start pulling their hair out.

Temperatures were below normal all through the month of December. Meteorologists, after accumulating the numbers, say this past December was one of the coldest on record hereabouts. And there was that Christmas Eve blizzard to boot.

January offered no relief. We have experienced arctic temperatures, and we recently had another major ice/snow event.

Now, a week deep into February, as much as 8 inches of snow is possible for Monday. And the forecasters see no relief in sight for at least the next two weeks.

The U.S. isn't alone in its woes. National news reports say China has been hit with a nasty winter. I saw a satellite photo on the news in which the entirety of the British Isles were white.

If the winter weather this far south is this bad, what do you think it is like at the North Pole? Is anyone still worried about those poor polar bears?

And God said to the people, "Global warming this."

Hee, hee.

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