We need Ice Age weather to warm world up again 

Last week Friday there was snow on the ground in 49 of our 50 states and more was predicted for this week. That’s right. From Alaska in the north to the Panhandle area of Florida in the South, there was white stuff on the ground. If you include the mountain tops in Hawaii, there was snow in all 50 of our United States! Residents of the mid-Atlantic region of the country were bracing for their third major storm of the season.

What’s going on? You would think that with all this climate change talk, we wouldn’t have to worry about any more big snowstorms. If climate change is for real and the world is really getting warmer, as we are led to believe, major snowstorms should be a thing of the past. Try telling that to people who were tossing snowballs in Pensacola, Fla., last Friday or who were stuck in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where many of the nation’s 1,900 flights were cancelled or at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport where hundreds more flights were halted due to more than a foot of snow on the ground.

Talk about irony. Washington, D.C., was shut down for most of last week because of a massive Northeastern snow storm. The weather prevented anyone from getting to the nation’s capitol where a new federal climate change office was scheduled to open and a Senate subcommittee was to meet on global warming. If there was any doubt that God truly has a sense of humor, last week in Washington, D.C., should have put that idea to rest. But there’s much more.

A U.S. Climate Impacts Report says that while the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. It says that is in part because of global warming. The theory is that warmer air can hold more moisture so as a storm gathers, it can release massive amounts of snow. Cold air is much drier and if there was a cold snap, we would not see much heavy snowfall.

So, there you have it. Global warming is responsible for all this snow and cold weather the country is experiencing. It seems the climate change advocates have an explanation for everything, but this has to take the cake. South Dakota, including the Black Hills, is experiencing one of its coldest winters ever. It started early this year way back in October when we had our first cold snap, and really hasn’t let up much at all since that time. Ice and snow that formed at that time is still with us because we have not had those 60 degree days of reprieve that we usually experience for a week or so in January or February.

If you believe in the theory of global warming causing snow and cold, then we can only hope for Ice Age weather so we can start warming up again in the future. Makes sense, doesn’t it?