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Winter can be a bitch.<\/p>\n

My wife and I sat in a cold house for most of two days, victimized by a remarkable freeze that paralyzed much of Texas. It certainly grabbed North Texas by the throat. Our electrical grid was overtaxed and it couldn\u2019t handle the demands placed on it by the plummeting temperature.<\/p>\n

I am struck by a thought that keeps nagging at me. Weather such as what we experienced \u2013 10-degree high temperatures and lows near zero in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, for crying out loud! \u2013 is going to energize the climate change deniers out there.<\/p>\n

They are going to say something like this: Hey, the bitter cold weather of the winter of 2021 just proves that Earth\u2019s climate isn\u2019t changing, that it isn\u2019t warming up, that our planet isn\u2019t in dire jeopardy at all!<\/p>\n

To which I would say: Nonsense. Earth\u2019s climate is changing and our planet and those of us who live on it are facing dire peril every year we fail to come to grips with humanity\u2019s contribution to the change.<\/p>\n

I am reminded of the time an infamous climate-change denier, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to illustrate the very point that climate change is a hoax. Why, how can Earth\u2019s climate be warming when Washington, D.C., at that very moment was gripped in such a bitter cold snap?<\/p>\n

Such idiocy doesn\u2019t take the long view, doesn\u2019t look at it through the longest lens possible.<\/p>\n

National environmental observers note that the median temperature of Earth, examined over a period of an entire year, suggest a distinct warming trend. I daresay that when they take our planet\u2019s temperature at the end of this year it will continue to show the same trend.<\/p>\n

So please. Spare me the notion that a current deep freeze \u2013 a symptom of winter weather \u2013 is somehow proof that the larger crisis doesn\u2019t exist. It most certainly does exist.<\/p>\n

Now \u2026 I am just wishing for a quick warmup.<\/p>\n\n

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Winter can be a bitch. My wife and I sat in a cold house for most of two days, victimized by a remarkable freeze that paralyzed much of Texas. It certainly grabbed North Texas by the throat. Our electrical grid was overtaxed and it couldn\u2019t handle the demands placed on it by the plummeting temperature. … Continue reading It’s cold, but …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910,4],"tags":[1027],"class_list":["post-46571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-environmental-news","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46572,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46571\/revisions\/46572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}