It really is wake-up time, folks. I’ve been thinking about what’s happening to the weather. We all need to think about it. We’d better get used to the reality of a changing world before it’s too late. That’s hoping it isn’t too late already. My brother tells me I shouldn’t be so pessimistic, but what’s going on now is reality, not pessimism. The Farm Belt is baking and burning, and a temperature of 113 degrees in Norman, Oklahoma, with 25 mile-per-hour winds blowing wildfires across an 80 square mile burn area in just one day is not just another theory; it is fact!
Texas ranching — 2012 edition
Oklahoma isn’t the only place feeling the effects of climate change, or whatever you want to call it. More than half the counties in the contiguous 48 states have now been declared disaster areas due to drought. When food prices start rising because food grains are being diverted to feed lots in order to support our ridiculous appetite for meat, and when the conditions are too dire for the cattle to survive anyway, then maybe we’ll begin to see things the way the ranchers in Texas are already seeing them.
Seems to me that all the predictions of the climate scientists over the past 30 years are coming to pass with a vengeance. And if you don’t think it’s due to human activity, then go bury your head back in the sand. There’s going to be plenty of that, goodness knows, after all this drought. Maybe you could go to the beach, before sea level rise washes them all away.
From where I sit, we’re soon going to have a choice: soggy, toast, or maybe just soggy toast.
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