Beautiful Weather But Sort of Scarey

The weather here has been simply wonderful for the past few days; daytime temperatures in the middle seventies and overnight in the fifties.

Trouble is, we are in mid-November and it should be a bit colder, IMO. Maybe I have been hearing too much about 'global warming' and 'greenhouse effect' and all that, and to be honest President Bush's total disdain for things like the Kyoto Treaty and his seeming total disregard for things needed to preserve our world have to make me wonder ... now here in Independence, summertime temperatures are normally in the upper nineties or lower one-hundreds so that would not be unexpected. But this is early November for goodness sake, and things should be getting cooler. The furnace in my house has only gone on once or twice thus far this season, and then when the early morning chill in the air caused it. But we are by and large leaving our doors and windows open; in fact , I took a little nap today in the back yard, and when I woke up and went inside and the air conditioner had kicked in! Very, very odd for early November IMO.

Maybe I have been watching too much television news lately, with some perfectly dreadful images of the snow caps in Alaska melting. I've got a hunch we are in for some very unusual weather all this winter. I know things are rough for the Arctic wildlife who are accustomed to living in cold conditions. I wonder why President Bush refuses to go along with Kyoto as the rest of the world is doing?