Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’ (...and the cause is human.)

[Gabby Hayes]

47. It will only seem better, and maybe.......

The big polluters are counting on short memories because there will be some respites between the worsening swings in the weather pendulum. This summer is scaring the crap out of a lot of people up North, just as the summer of 2011 did in Texas. The summer of '11 replaced 2009 as the hottest ever known where I live in Texas. By a ton. The summer of '09 replaced '08 as the hottest ever. By a ton.

The summer of '07 was so cool it was known here as The year without a summer. But the previous summer -- 2006 -- was one of the five-hottest ever, in terms of days with temperatures at or above 100 degrees. In fact, since 1998 (the year deniers claimed the world began to cool) we have experienced seven of the ten worst summers on record. Again, that is in terms of days at or above 100 degrees.

Hopefully we won't see any records set where I live this summer, although people are goosey. There are even signs of an El Nino, which is usually good news for Texas because of the promise of heightened rainfall chances. Some short-term improvements will be seen where you live too, but as in Texas any new ground you gain may well be lost when the pendulum makes another hard swing the other way.

Remember that the science of soil conservation flourished in the 1930's and headed-off an even bigger calamity during the dust bowl of the '50s.' During the ensuing years and decades there have been far-thinking people worldwide feverishly looking for ways to clean up our current mess from behind. Some are garage and backyard inventors, or students in science fairs. Bring them all together with those working on the future of energy -- and protect them from industrial monkey-wrenchers.