This winter and spring has been a Costco-sized can of Suck. This is the Pacific Northwest, so rain in April is normal. Hell, rain in June is normal. Just not really cold rain. We should be having Spring rain. Rain that is, of course, wet, but not cold. What we’ve been having lately is winter rain. Rain that is wet AND cold. I never thought I’d ever be in a position to categorize rain, but there it is. Pacific Northwest rain has different characteristics depending on the time of year. It doesn’t just come down and make everything wet, it BEHAVES differently in different seasons and right now, in the LATTER HALF OF APRIL, it should be ACTING like Spring rain.
Last night, the Fetching Mrs. Bixby and I were soaking in the hot tub, keeping our heads as close to the surface as possible, like Japanese Snow Monkeys, because the wind blowing through the backyard was straight from the end of January. I looked at her and said, “So much for Global Warming, ” and she laughed, spraying warm water into my face and instantly melting the little icicles growing from my beard.
Today I’m surfing the intertubes and come across an article about the impending ice age. The same blog post which linked that article also linked this article about melting Arctic sea ice and how we’re ALL DOOMED to drown unless we move to Kansas.
Comparing the two articles, I find them both to be similar in that “Oh God!, We’re all going to DIE!” motif the Left has perfected when it comes to the climate. In contrast, the first is grounded in facts and the second is grounded in opinion.
