The New Normal ?

The Robins and Cardinals are back. They are early this year just as they were early last year. We have had less than 2 feet of snow total for the winter. Most of our local lakes and ponds still have some open water and there are only a few daring souls who go out on the ice on foot to get their ice fishing fix. 

And I thought last winter was weird. Might this be the new "normal"?

What's done is done and by the way, it matters little now who or what is to blame. Global Warming / Climate Change" is an obvious part of our lives now. The fact is we are well into a cycle that most experts claim is irreversible. The proponents differ on how it might play out, but they all agree we are in for some dark times ahead, climate wise. The best we can do is try to mitigate the damage and find ways to adjust.

The time is well past for the leaders around this planet to have placed Climate Change at the top of their to do list. Instead of asking how do we deal with this change, our world leaders allowed petty regional politics to drive their policies regarding Global Warming. Pissing on each other's feet or acting as if Global Warming was no big thing only insures a catastrophic outcome sooner than later. 

Poor messaging by the Global Warming alarmists back in the 1970's set this issue squarely in the political arena. They seemed more intent in assigning blame than pushing to find remedies. That this issue has become the huge political football it still is, testifies to how much they fucked up. So much time was wasted on the anger of blame, the important information never found the audience it needed. Had the message instead of the vitriol been in the forefront, tangible change that might have at least forestalled the impact and given us a few more years or decades to find answers. 

Oh well.

And the Global Warming deniers, well, they embraced angry political stupidity when their leaders knew the smart guys were right. And so it went, many wasted years of useless accusations resulting in even more useless denials which left us in our unenviable position of not being ready in any way for the inevitable "I told you so" so many smart folk warned us of over fifty years ago.

My mantra about Global Warming has always been: 

"Assigning blame is stupid. Searching for mitigation is what we need to do. But the one thing we should cease doing immediately is shitting in our own nest. We are killing ourselves."

It is 2023 now and I am beyond being pissed, disappointed, or sad. I am all done with trying to convince anyone the planet has shifted gears. We did this to ourselves. Fuck em. I will let the planet tell them. Maybe then we will finally have everyone on board in time to watch our ship sink into the rising seas.

Later .....................................

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I previewed more than a few tunes regarding Global Warming/Climate Change. I was almost sold on Jimmy Clif's reggae tune, "Save our planet Earth". I do like Reggae. Then I remembered Joni Mitchell, the woman who put Global Warming into the minds of millions of Baby Boomers back in the day. Her tune, "Big Yellow Taxi" is oh, so more relevant than it was back in 1970 when it was released. What the song predicted is now our reality. Damn are we stupid or what?