It's a Little Hot Outside

Welcome to the new year. 2007

Beyond my understanding.

Let’s talk about global warming. The next ten years are very exciting because right now, in garages and labs across the country (and in the greatest numbers in California), creative, ambitious people are figuring out how to make very efficient engines; how to easily use bio-refuse as fuel; how to creative a true mathematical model that gives the answer to the world’s troubles in X=trees planted + feet used – burned fuel + anything else that is good.

We were in New York City for two weeks. And it was unseasonably warm. I am not going to say it wasn’t freaky, but it was also not unheard of. As a temperature observant child, I remember some very warm December days. Not for ten days straight. But for maybe two days at a time. Okay, fine—

So I wasn’t so upset about the temperature being so springy while I was there. Many days in a row, strange. But warmish in December, not the worst thing to happen to a person. But there was something going on in New York that was straight out of Science Fiction: Pussy Willows.

You never saw pussy willows in December in th 70’s.. No matter what. December--No Pussy Willows!

But there they were, all silvery and fuzzy, pushing out all along the tips of thin branches.

Pussy Willows were always the first sign of spring. It was so exciting. In December, not so.

Dear Pussy Willows:
I’m sorry we are upsetting your world.

(Note: Great Britain has experienced its warmest year since records have been kept. They started keeping record in 1659.)

But I am optimistic. People are going to figure this out. It’s exciting.