My wife and I recently spent a rare and spectacular meteor shower of our country house in central Texas. With the nearly full moon in the east, the stars falling from north to south, the temperature is around 50, and the coyote shows horn in the distance, was a perfect night for one of the most beautiful fireworks of nature. It 'hard to see a show and not be humbled by nature.
Speaking of nature ....
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Monday was different. It 'wasFreezing, literally - 32 degrees and falling. Damn cold. The dramatic and sudden change in weather was a little 'surprising but not entirely unusual. You know the saying: "If you do not like Texas weather, wait a minute ..." But time was different - it was a bit 'cold, which is unusual in Texas, and everywhere I went on Monday, declined to comment on the people, "weather weird, huh?" I will just respond with the obvious: "Yes, it is a bit 'strange'.
Strange indeed.
Later thatIn the afternoon, I jumped on a plane and went to Baltimore for a business trip. When I left the airport in Baltimore to take my tour of Delaware, I was by how hot the temperature was beaten. Baltimore is in December (and warm Texas) cold, but here was 70 degrees and humidity. When I got in my car to drive 1 hour north of the city I said to my driver, who is a professional golfer and friend, who was unusually warm for Baltimore.
"Yes," he said. "The weather wasvery strange lately. Only last week we went from 20 degrees to 70 degrees overnight. Everyone went from parkas to play golf in 24 hours. Strange. "
Strange indeed.
After a night terribly uncomfortable in my hotel in Wilmington (turn off all AC units in hotels during the winter because you see, it is cold in winter in Delaware), I wake up in the rainy, humid day. My client took me to the hotel and the first thing he said to me when I jumped in the carThe trip to the office ... "The strange man of the time. Do you have an umbrella?" I laughed and told him that "Strange Weather" was the mantra of the week, and shared my story with him.
Later that day, I was happy to meet a group of civil servants, I noticed that their attention is beyond me. All the past I looked out the window. I stopped to speak slowly and looked out, and to my great surprise he discovered that it was snowing! Huge, beautiful white snowflakesFlutter to the ground! And just yesterday I was uncomfortable because the humidity and heat. This morning was not even cold yet ... hours snowing?
Strange time!
What's going on here?
In his recent book, Hot, flat and crowded, Thomas Friedman characterizes my experience of two days' Weirding global ", and attributes this seemingly wild fluctuations of global warming and associated changes of this heating had on the climate. His argument is convincing, andDaily experience confirms. Not just my experience ... with you. Ask yourself how many times you or someone who speaks a little while ago, that the time was acting strangely? Even if we struggle with the explanation that we all know intuitively that something is wrong with the weather ... their action seems to be, well, strange.
And that's a fact. Or perhaps an inconvenient truth ... The weather is changing. Or more precisely - global climate change, the impact onWeather in strange ways. As Friedman writes in his book "The climate is changing over time, the science is settled. The climate is changing in an unusual way in the background are the long-term natural variations accepted by most people." Something is different. If you believe that humans are the agents of climate change, or choose a natural variation in global temperatures is rising, the fact that the world is warming, and carbon dioxide levels, theResults in a climate-C02-destructive feedback.
The combination of the two is strange time. It is expected to become much, much worse over time.
What will be the result of this bizarre tendency for society? We should plan more events like Katrina and Haiti once the world continues to become more unpredictable and uncertain world itslef? And if so, what is proposed for the personal responsibility to be prepared?
StrangeWeather in the crime. The question is: Are we prepared?
Stay safe. Stay informed. Stay prepared.
Kevin Baum
SurvivalOutpost.com
Strange time!
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