Climate Change

Much talk about Climate Change... one thing I have noticed...no matter what anyone says, it seems to happen FAST! I recall the hot summer in Europe 2 or 3 years ago when 10,000 died from the heat. A committee of scientists was set up to evaluate. When the report came out, a number of the scientists said that they had expected these changes, but more slowly. They were shocked how fast the weather changed. Experiments on grains of sand, falling one by one onto a pile of sand...called "self-organized criticality"... Picture it. One grain at a time. For awhile nothing much happens. The pile gets bigger and bigger. Then, suddenly, an avalanche down one slope! Whoo-o-o-o-osh! There it is! Stuff happens fast. When you hear that climate will change, only it will be fifty years, read 25 years instead...and that's too long. Climate Change is something WE wish WE could manipulate like we do the Budget Deficit: INFLICT it on the Grandkids! It will sweep over us in my lifetime. When things reach a critical point...avalanche. This is not an opinion informed by politics. It is The Obvious.