As someone who has lived on the Texas coast for 99% of my life, I can truthfully say it's snowed and iced more often in the last 10 years than the other 25 years of my life

Been watching the weather change all my life of almost 70 years with a bleak view of the future for my families future. Your topics clarify what's happening and going to, so well. Thanks for the explanations/answers to some of the many questions I have.

As someone that lives in Alaska. I can tell you my experience of the weather this year does not match the average USA experience. Where I live, this has been a shockingly hot and dry year. And so far this fall/winter is beyond belief. If 20 years ago you would have told me that we still would have no snow on the ground that lasted more than a few days, and every week till now had many days in the 40's fahrenheit every week. I would have thought you were on drugs. I left the state of Alaska for just over 10 years, and it's like an entirely different climate I moved back too. It's beyond insane.

A mini ice age has begun as of Feb 2021 The Thames river has frozen over , first time in 60 years .

As if aliens would want anything to do with us lunatics 😂👽

The clarity of your presentations are a joy to a rational mind.

Seriously, 10 years ago I heard the director of climate research from East Anglia University say in 10 years, because of anthropogenic greenhouse gases driven climate change, our children will not know what snow is. Now you are saying because of anthropogenic greenhouse gases driven climate change will lead to longer cold periods and longer winters. Maybe our releasing carbon into the atmosphere is mostly greening our planet and has insignificant effect on the temperature of our planet. While the scientists who contend that we are entering a solar minimum which will lead to cooler temperatures and shortened growing sessons, until the sun becomes more active, can be shown wrong if the trend continues to warm. Now you are telling me that anthropogenic greenhouse gases which were predicted to cause temperature rising 10 years ago will now cause a cooler climate. I have no way to disprove the anthropogenic greenhouse gases driven climate change hypothesis is wrong. I am sorry but it is bad science. Until they get rid of their bias of anthropogenic driven climate change and let the data lead them to the answers, we will never learn the truth.

"The warm air turns down towards the equitorial poles...it's a thing we call wind" wind eh? I see 🧐📖

we are in a grand solar minimum

Have you noticed that the UK summers are turning into a game of 'guess the season' on a day to day basis? Nothing like when I was younger and you had weeks of clear skies in summer, so the weather was fairly predicable.

I'm not holding my breath for anything out of COP 25, except lots of handwringing and plenty of 'we must do better. Big report today out about the land destruction in Indonesia for the production of Palm Oil and the fires being set to clear forests to plant more- ugg, not a good result. However, Well done Dave, another good video.

Thanks so much for the clear concise information, and graphics.

You have a great talent to make the concepts so understandable.Thank you

I really appreciate this. Thank you!

Wonderful video! I always look forward to your new videos!

Thanks for what you do Dave.

A 10 year time-frame is extremely short for suggesting climat6e change. Now if we had accurate detailed 500 year or better a thousand or more years to compare against, that would start to get my attention. When I was growing up in east central Ohio in the 50's & 60's we had temps of 20 to 30 below zero sometimes for several days in a row. My parents had a few pictures from when they moved to that area in the 30's where snow was stacked up on both sides of the road over 10 feet. What I'm suggesting is that our observations of climate worldwide are sort of like a grain of sand on a very large beach. If I were a microbe on that grain, my perspective is much different than that of an ant pushing it out of the way for a tunnel, or of a child scooping up bucketfuls to make a sand castle. The point is that the microbe could try lots of things to make sure it's grain didn't move. Buy would the ant or the child even know or care? Remember, one comet of the right size could end all civilization, or possibly all life on earth, no matter what we do.

Excellent video, Dave. The content and quality of presentation increments up every week. 👍

From what I read this is the same weather pattern that caused the blizzard of the 1800s

The warming is measured by 3,800 self-profiling floats called "Argo floats" and is +0.11 degrees / decade for the shallowest 750 metres. The stratosphere is cooling. The 1st gives the quantity and the 2nd gives the cause. Only an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) can simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. An increase in solar radiation cannot simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. A decrease in global average cloud cover cannot simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. A decrease in air pollution aerosols cannot simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. No increased form of energy entering Earth's atmosphere from space can simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. No decreased form of energy entering Earth's atmosphere from space can simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. No increased form of geothermal heat can simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. An increase in heat leaving the oceans cannot simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. Only increased atmospheric GHGs can simultaneously warm the oceans, warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere, and that is what's been happening the last 50 years. It's the smoking gun for increased atmospheric GHGs being the cause.

Oh we will definitely have an ice age soon. Nuclear winter is gonna suck.

wasn't it like 19 years ago Al Gore said the ice caps would be melted away in 12years and alot of places would be underwater?

Some Scientists argue that warming preceded natural release of C02 into the atmosphere. As oceans warmed up C02 released. Absorption occurred during ice ages. Throw in the eccentricity of the earths elliptical orbit around the sun, the variations in tilt of the earths access plane over very long periods, and the precession. Further,throw in the 11 year solar max/min periods which while in max/min periods are believed to have some impact to earths weather and climate. We are creeping into a Low solar flare activity period which is believed to contribute to colder winters in the atlantic regions. Also in these 11 year cycles variations in temperature and ozone concentrations in the stratosphere are observed. Further there are large variations in the ultraviolet wavelengths absorbed in the upper atmosphere with the 300 to 250 nano meter range getting absorbed in the stratosphere. Scientists are researching to see if there is a the link between changes between the Stratosphere, Troposphere, and earths surface. It is understood that changes in the Stratosphere can affect the surface climate through changes in the surface wind and circulations, which in turn affect on the oceans. Point is, when I read about anthropogenic impact on climate, there is no discussion on the bigger picture. Climate change fanaticism , fed by years and of awful scientific predictions, terrible unverified studies (hockey stick), politics, and finally opportunity to relieve our conciseness because have found our scapegoat in Trump there is reason for people to be skeptical. Lets put the inquisition aside, stop glorifying Al Gore, AOC and Greta Thunberg, and get back to real science. Lets be sure the cure is not worse than the disease.

Another fantastic video, thank you!

Well we haven't had any snow this winter. And flowers are blooming very very early here in 2020. I do believe we have entered the anthropocene age.

This year's arctic blast was extremely hard on Texas as well as our major farmlands, I would hope this opens people's eyes to the reality of climate change. If it is a "hoax" it's one that's real enough to kill.

One of the authors in the paper you referenced was a professor of mine during my B.S. in Meteorology. Da Yang is doing great work

Who is here after the Texas winter storm

As always, spot on. Thanks for such clear information.

This just in, scientists discover that fear can create money.

Wonderful video. I really enjoy the information that you provide. Thanks 😊

Charles Darwin wrote in his book The Descent of Man, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." It's a fitting quote for far too many commenters here.

I wish we would have a full on ice age. Western civilization needs a real crisis. Pretending that a sniffle and carbon dioxide are catastrophic is getting boring. Besides, I still want a pet mammoth.

Thanks for another smasher there Dave - weirdly, learning about the impending doom of the human race is a somewhat welcome distraction from all of the election coverage at the moment. Apart from anything else, I can trust that what you're saying is almost certainly true! More than can be said for the tit in Number 10. All the best.

Here's some scientific questions I need answers to but can't seem to get. 1. What is the correct temperature of the planet? 2. What should be the correct amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? If we can't get answers to these questions, how can we know if we have done enough to start reversing the trend?

I'm not looking forward to the austerity measures that will continue to be put in place to (try to) counter the climate change, but this has really become one of my favorite channels to watch. Very well researched and presented. And fascinating.

Add to the effects of jets stream meandering the slowing of the Atlantic conveyor ocean current and it begins to look rather chilly for the UK future winters.

I watch videos stating that increases in hurricanes, fires and weather events are proof of man made global warming. I then watch videos that Display data showing no increases in the yearly totals of hurricanes, fires and weather events. Add in the videos showing that we are headed into a mini ice age, the failed climate predictions and you start to understand the skepticism.

...but CO2 lags temperature rise which makes good common sense.

Dr Jennifer Francis is adorable, she explains things very well and does answer. Great video with good explanation about jet streams. Jet streams also drove dominant winds. Dominant winds are weaker, so the weather patterns are changing. For exemple over the mediterranean sea : flux was west to east with a tendency from north to south : that is usually good weather, not too warm. NOW every time we see winds from south to north, lightly east to west : we see flooding in regions like Venice, and the french riviera. Hotter air passes over the sea witch is also warm, loading up with moisture that gives never seen before downpours, and the pattens sticks. In the past, yes, this was happening (rarely) but it was very short in duration. Now it stays there. Whatever resilience you put in place, give it enough time and rain accumulation gives a catastrophe. Bolstered by sea level rise.

We know we knew. They lied.

Sounds like mother nature has figured out how to clean house. The only problem it's the human race is what she's throughing out the front door.

*** PART 3 OF 3 *** The tropospheric temperature lapse rate is required to cause the so-called "enhanced greenhouse effect". The average altitude for LWR to ocean and land got lower (1,650 metres ---> 1,550 metres in my example) which means LWR to the surface of the ocean and land is from warmer (faster) molecules on average because tropospheric temperature decreases with altitude and LWR to ocean/land is from lower-down-than-before molecules on average, so there are more GHG molecular collisions / second which leads to more MVE which leads to more LWR production. The quantity of LWR energy (power flux) provided by a mass of gas is proportional to its temperature(Kelvin)**4 (to the fourth power) so, as explained in detail above, the increasing of tropospheric GHGs ==must== cause more LWR than before to be passing downwards to the surface of the ocean and land. This latter is called "downwelling LWR radiation at the surface" and I've explained why it must increase and this must, of course, warm the land and ocean surface. That's the lower end of how the so-called "enhanced greenhouse effect" works. --------- Note 1: I haven't yet found the collision MVE production & destruction spectra so I don't know what %age make MVE and what %age destroy MVE. I looked a few hours 4 years ago but couldn't find it (not for free anyway). It makes no difference to the description of the mechanism above but it would be needed to confirm the quantity of effect for doubling CO2. Note 2: Removed because I've gotten confirmation. Note 3: 80% of Earth's atmosphere is in the troposphere (the top of which is 16 km in the tropics and 9 km in the polar regions, averaging ~12,000 metres). The "greenhouse effect" warming can only happen in Earth's troposphere, there's no effect in Earth's tropopause and the effect is "backwards" in Earth's stratosphere with =increased= stratospheric GHG gases causing =cooling= of the stratosphere because the stratospheric temperature lapse rate has temperature increasing with altitude (that's how it's known with total certainty that it's increased "greenhouse gases (GHGs)" doing the global warming for the last several decades). Since there's no temperature lapse rate in the tropopause then any change in the quantity/type of GHGs in the tropopause cannot have any warming or cooling effect on the tropopause or the entire atmosphere, ocean or land. No effect at all. If you follow my description of the effect above for the troposphere but apply it to the tropopause then you'll clearly see that any change in the quantity/type of GHGs in the tropopause cannot have any warming or cooling effect That's the reality. The increasing GHGs in the stratosphere are a slight -ve feedback to global warming because downwelling LWR radiation from the stratosphere decreases with increased GHGs, but it's a very slight -ve feedback because only 6.3% of the well-mixed GHGs (and all molecules) are above the tropopause and they are initially colder than the average of the troposphere so they make even less LWR than the 6.3% factor. By the time the stratosphere warms more than the average of the troposphere there's only 0.4% of Earth's atmosphere's molecules above, negligible. Note 4: FTIR power flux vs wave-length spectra recorded by the instrument on a satellite show which wave-lengths of LWR heading to space past the satellite came from the surface of the ocean and land and which wave-lengths came, on average, from the GHG molecules and surfaces of solid particles and water droplets in the atmosphere. From this atmospheric physicists have calculated the 83% of the LWR that Earth sends to space that is emitted by the atmosphere rather than by the surface of the ocean and land. Also, the MODTRAN tool on the internet can be used to play with a theoretical calculation of the FTIR power flux vs wave-length spectra by adjusting GHGs.

this is calmest year in my life weather-vice - no storms, no draught, no flodding, nothing - just normal boring weather here in Sweden in 2019.... maybe a bit colder that earlier.... :)

It's almost May, and the last snowbanks are melting away in the yards here in N. Wisconsin. It's pretty tough to convince the average bloke around the block that the planet is warming, save for the more frequent tornado or two we get munching its way through the woods. Hopefully we will see the light soon. Dave, what you are presenting all makes very good sense, could you whisper into Rupert's ear that he needs to present truth with his newsfotainment broadcasts, in light of enlightenment principles?

Great to see people using a computer and the internet to attack science. Bravo. You win the award.

Here in the summer of 2021, while parts of China and Germany had heavy rains and flooding, western Canada has had the hottest and driest conditions on record. Temperatures in Lytton, British Columbia exceeded 49 degrees celsius (about 121 degrees fahrenheit).

First they said global cooling, then global warming and finally climate change. It's called weather.

WHAT IS THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX?

Insulate you’re housing it will keep you cool in summer and warm in the off chance you get a cold snap.. DARWIN.......

excellent educative explanation, thank you very much

TY Dave. As always..

I live in the southern part of the Australian mainland. I cannot remember it ever being this cold. We have had a long period of cold weather. In the state of Victoria we actually had heavy snow on the first day of summer! That never happens. So much for global warming!

Minus 42 degrees Celsius last January in Utah, lowest ever temp recorded in continental US. We need the effin carbon dioxide! As for ‘weird weather’ , this is entirely consistent with the beginning of a grand minimum.

people working less hours have more time to waste on climate predictions and get confused by weather forecast during afternoon strolls

Thanks again.

all i did was just look up ice age baby 😂

When it snows in the Midwest in July then I'll start worrying.

It’s a part of a cycle bigger than the space in time we’ve been studying the weather, ask any geologist they’ll tell you climate change has been going on for thousands of years in cycles.

Huricanes, tornados, droughts and floods are all at the same levels they have been since they started recording them. Msg me if you want to see the data. Not to mention crop yields continue increasing each decade. How would human population be growing so much if there were crop failures? Do you think populations grow without food?

Many think AGM is simply the earth getting warmer, like a heater in a room. This video Shows complexities greater than I was aware of. The heater in the room analogy with a Block of ice in, is the analogy I understand. All the heater does initially is melt the ice, nothing happens to the temperature in the room till the ice is greatly reduced. Therefor initially people will say "I haven't noticed any difference," and that will be true, so they conclude so it must be a lie. The worry is when that ice block has almost gone, then the temperature rises and there is nothing to stop it. Its then too late to reduce the CO2 levels.

It's just hard to believe that we have a grunt for a president. I remember JFK. Hell, even Nixon knew that "country" isn't a proper noun. Global warming does not need to be in capital letters. I may be pedantic, but he is supposed to be in a position of high caliber, setting good examples. I doubt he's even read the Constitution. But I digress. This isn't a video about English grammar.

The climate debate was simplified by identifying CO2 as the driver of temperature. There have been countless articles from various sources stating it’s not solar cycles, volcanoes, precession, obliquity, aerosols, etc. If the addition of 1 part per 10 thousand of CO2 is causing this “crisis” then the absorption graph of infrared radiation should show it. Look it up and get back to me

Another great presentation , it seems we only change behavior when we experience intolerable pain.At that point there is no reverse gear.As the east coast of Australia is consumed by smoke and dust , we still go about our pointless daily activities in the consumer culture.People just don't change, me included.

Back in the 80's i was shown a "Global Warming Map" that had the east coast underwater by 2015 Making my inland property beach front. Wish I hadn't bought that damned boat

I was in Alaska during the winter of 76/77 the same weather pattern set up back then, I would call my parents in Texas and tease them about it being colder in Texas than it was in Alaska. Another airman in our shop was from Florida and he also delighted in calling his parents and telling them it was warmer in Alaska than it was in Florida. During the early 60's we had similar cold on the Texas coast, it was cold enough to freeze along the Texas City dike (a break water that sticks out into Galvaston bay) the bay is mostly salt water but is diluted some by the rivers and bayous that feed into the gulf. The point is it gets cold it gets hot. When the models can accurately repeat historical reality then we can believe future predictions. Currently they run to hot and don't match reality. Actually they have shown a strong correlation between sun spots and the Pacific El Nino and la nina. Those seem to have an effect on the waves in the jetstream. That seem to also setup whether we have pacific fronts or colder Canadian fronts.

I had a Eureka Moment a few years ago ,,,, WE ARE SCREWED 7 WAYS TO SUNDAY

Weakening magnetic fields and wandering magnetic poles are interfering with the polar and tropical jet streams. These polar jet stream interruptions can push freezing air in the upper atmosphere far beyond, and far quicker, then seasonally ‘normal’ And its going to get much worse... *Hahaha: u just touched on the ‘jet stream’ Lets see what you have to say.... -Nope. Wrong sorry... woefully wrong. Edit: u just touched on the sun... Its a start I guess. NB: we are headings towards a Maunder minimum. (cycle that has lower solar output.) And the next solar maximum is shaping up to be a dud. And the next minimum will be a very low minimum. This reduction in output has flow on effects to many of Earths outer atmospheric layers and ionic/radiation layers that connect the Earths Insulated surface with the interplanetary medium and the energy output of the sun. Weaker sun= weaker electrical systems/defences for Earth. Lower defences = higher EMR levels entering our atmosphere via magnetic field lines that converge in the polar regions. And many more negative effects...

I can remember as a kid in my town in the United Kingdom, winter was winter with up to 4 feet of snow ⛄️ now I don’t see any.

when you realize everything about particle physics and the sun has been ignored in this discussion.... and that CO2 accounts for 0.06% of our atmosphere on average.... that's 0.00006:1

Where else on the Internet could I get my fix of existential dread served up with that mocking, patronising grin?

You're the best 💯💯

Thanks for the shout out.

Everything is always coming !! No worry ! Reality is only what you think it is. Have a think

LOL. Published 16 seconds ago. I didn't mean to be this early. ;)

Thanks Mister Think, I hadn't come across that Omega blocking detail before. I have a complaint to register though about the distressing picture of the starving U.S. of American farmer with their crop failure & famine there at 2:15. When a disturbing image is to be shown to persons of nervous disposition like me a flashing warning should be first shown on the screen.

So we have theories and models which claim to explain the recent weather phenomena by referring to the behavior of the jet stream. All good and fine, but theories are not worth a dime if they are not backed up by evidence. We have snow cover data since the late 60s. And when you analyze those data you find the following facts which are in contradiction with the stories we are being served in this video (Btw, what an incredible video quality for a single person, right?) : i) Snow cover has decreased from the late 60s to the mid-late 80s, but since then it is increasing again. How can we have an increasing snow cover over the entire northern hemisphere? I understand that the jet stream may expand the snow cover were it comes down far south. But when it comes down far south in one place then it also goes up far north in other places. For instance, there is little snow in Alaska this year. The same has happened in that year at the end of the 70s when it snowed in Miami and temperatures in Florida were below those of Alaska. ii) The variance of the snow cover has increased over time and not decreased over time. If we compute for each week of the year the variance of the snow cover in that week during the first half of the time period 1966-2019 (for which we have satellite measurments of the area covered by snow) and then compare it with the corresponding variance of the snow cover during the second half of 1966-2019, then one finds that with the exception of only 4 weeks of the year (weeks 7,8, 36 and 45) one always gets a larger variance in the first part of 1966-2019. How can this be? If the increased amplitude of the jet stream drives temperatures and thus snow cover, I would expect that the Variance of the of the snow cover during most weeks of the year to increase. But the data say that the exact opposite has happened. Anyway, whatever one might think of the content of the videos, they are certainly done in a very very professional way.

I would say that solar min- max cycles is what affect this too.

Oh and let's not forget the Polar Vortex is following the Magnetic Pole movement. The North Pole has moved a couple hundred miles farther away from Alaska since it started wandering. I can understand why Alaska and Canada are warming a little.

Thank you for your good work 👍😎

The jet stream’s is a very nice theory to come to the rescue of the global warming theory. But I wonder: why did the climatic models predict that winters would be milder and with almost no snow in the United States? How can these models (over which the warming theory is based) be so wrong? What other mistakes are they now making in their predictions of the future?

Dave, I love your style sir - that you can maintain your sense of humour..... Despite the dire future humanity faces. Please keep up this work.

Great video (what I ❤about KZfaq-besides Cats), but on a more serious note, I can confirm Kevin J's post about changes in Alaska. Adding that entire towns-we call villages, have been forced to relocate due to flooding, permafrost food storage (kinda like a root cellar) units collapse spoiling an entire winter supply of meat for those in the afore-mentioned villages, stores in Anchorage sell out of fans 2 summers running-80F is miserable! And while that 1degree Celsius temp may sound harmless, that converts to 33.8 F. Add that to average temp! Finally, what will we in the States do when expected crops can't make it to market. I'm afraid we need more leadership on this than the tweeting Smart-ass in chief! Subscribing. 👍

Warm weather doesn't make it rain. All that rain comes from cold fronts. According to the Danish records of Arctic ice, no change in the melting and building up of ice cycle in the last 30 years.

Great explainations of all the subjects you cover. Thank you. You are a excellent teacher, what did you do before 'Just have a think'?

Here WE GO AGAIN! its so hot its snowing, WAKE UP!!

Amazing when corn farmers complain...1/3 of corn grown in USA is used to make gasoline!

There is tonnes and tonnes of snow in Alaska like who's he kidding

We were heading into an ice age, but man made global warming changed that

Spoiler: He doesn’t mention anything about a mini-ice-age. It’s going to be an unseasonably warm grand solar minimum.

🌍🌎🌏 For sure it will be happening someday. Our planet got several ice ages before and it will have more and more. As well as night and day the natural events repeat themselves. Our planet has still 500.000.000 years of life. In 500Milion of years, no more ice ages??? Impossible. The question is ➡️ WHEN 🤔

Plant more trees,lighten up the colors of rooftops and roads,,walk barefoot on a shaded sidewalk and an unshaded sidewalk on a sunny day in August,,you’ll understand the difference, ,your air conditioner could water a plant in some southern states with 5 to 10 gallons

It’s not you , it’s not co2 , it’s the sun ☀️. The sun drives climate not co2 .

Actually, we are still in the last ice age. Earth has no permanent ice between ice ages.

ANECDOTAL REGIONAL SHORT TERM VALUES ARE NOT INDICATIVE OF LONG TERM GLOBAL AVERAGES..JUST BECAUSE ONE AREA IS COLD NOW DOES NOT MEAN IT COMPENSATES FOR HIGHER AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE AT OTHER TIMES OF YEAR, SOME PEOPLE CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND TRENDS AND MEANS!

Atmospheric scientists have found out that the amount of heat lost to space from the uppermost layers of earths atmosphere is order of magnitude higher than what was previously estimated. Even within earths atmosphere, avg temperatures in the mesosphere can reach -90 C, its a huge heat sink by definition. So, we need to really recalculate heat transfer models of earth before proceeding with this climate change madness.

Some glaring over sights... our magnetosphere is by volume and energy volume much bigger than the potential heat energy in the atmosphere. Our ocean are also a massive energy capacitor.. you glossed over the operation of the polar vortex (solar plasma jets), Which is most certainly not affected by co2. And you dont mention that there is more moisture in the atmosphere in key places that is a far stronger greenhouse gas than co2.. lastly no mention of the melankovich cycle and also solar minimum( these happening together are bad) lastly these cycles may be necessary for nature,lets face it all of nature is filled with cycles i.e. migration, gestation, life cycles,seasons.i know who needs to have a think.. lol. I guess you git a vig patreon cheque from big oil...

All to do with the sun cooling

Your graphics help any one understand your subject, your well thought out and articulate speech is impeccable and your humor is very dry any so refreshing. All this with a prediction of doom for us all, and indeed not unfounded! Would you consider world food supplies and our ability to grow food in this new era the weakest link in humanity's future? Asking for a friend.

something not discussed, as these blocking events get bigger, more frequent, and move further and further south, global temps will fall off again and we will go back into a warming cycle again in 20 or so years. this is natural and should be expected. while co2 levels might be at their highest in fairly recent years, most scientists agree that we are far from peaks in the past. again i'll say climate change is a real thing, but has been going on for a very long time even before industrial boom made a fairly small contribution overall. 200 years from now people will be wondering just how silly we are today worrying over a few degrees in temp making a striking difference. we think we control our world, yet we actually have very little control over most of it. nature has been repairing itself too long.