'And the sign flashed out its warning'

Last winter a pretty healthy storm hit the East Coast. It was the one that shut down Washington, D.C., for a day or so, the one where both Alaska senators made it to work despite the snow and one of them found a delegation from Nome waiting in the office. It was referred to as the storm of the century, pretty presumptuous considering the century was only nine years old and still had Katrina in it. The storm provided the opportunity for every global warming doubter to come out of the woodwork and claim it was all a scam and the proof was in the snow. Even the Governor Interrupted chimed in calling global warming "snake oil science." It was one of those comments that caused the complaint about embarrassing Alaskans blog a while ago.

So, last night a story came across about the triple digit heat wave in the Lower 48 and what people are doing to endure it. One fellow who lives in the watermelon capital of the country said he was even worried about his famous fruit which apparently thrives in the heat. Toward the end of the story, a person from the National Weather Service said June was the warmest month on record since records have been kept and July was shaping up for the same sort of record. In fact, that person said 2010 could be the warmest year in the history of record keeping.

Knowing a little about climate, and meteorology and weather, I am sure this is not the total indication of global warming any more than snowmagedden last February was an indication that global warming is not happening. But, how does the saying go? This silence was deafening.

Not one of those global warming doubters heard from. They will show up shortly though, saying this is only a blip in a natural cycle, which it probably is, and the indication of nothing, even though the blip in the cycle last winter was absolute proof the earth is not warming.

It is kind of a cool, wet summer in Alaska. So, maybe 100-degree temperatures are indicative of nothing as the warming is not universal. Have to wonder what the increased power use to run all those air conditioners is doing for the amount of CO2 in the air and the whole trend of warming. Junk science. But at least it silenced the wackos for a while.

"Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again …"