Blue Sky Limousine

Summer was much longer than I expected, and here in October, we’re still getting temperatures in the 80’s. It’s bizarre. There was about a week’s worth of cooler, fall-like weather, but that was weeks ago, and it was quickly replaced with summeresque heat.

I saw a show a couple of months ago about a network of supercomputers that used current data to extrapolate the weather of the future — 100 years in the future to be precise. What the data showed was a world of many tropical storms quickly developing left and right. I’ve heard that global warming has triggered a new “kind” of weather in which flooding and drought will take over and replace our formerly more evenly-dispersed system. Many more storms seem on the distant horizon, according to the supercomputer network.

The fact that the “normal” seasonal temperatures seem to be no longer “dependable,” in that it could be cool during summer and hot during fall, shows in yet another way that global warming is now having a definite visible impact.

The scientific warnings seemed to be a little abstract and distant. But now seeing these changes, and being in a more open and aware frame of mind, brought about by the works of Al Gore and others, it seems like there’s finally proof that even the most not-in-the-know citizen can latch on to.