Is this what Hades feels like?

[Thomas]

That was a question from my seedlings in the greenhouse where, with the door open and the solar vents open, the temperature reached 113 degrees F today.

Upper 80s in the Finger Lakes. This kind of hot weather so early has been going on now for the past few springs. I am convinced that we are experiencing climate change in this part of the world, at least I've seen a shift over the past 26 years here. I can now grow okra!

[Innkeeper]

Last winter when we were freezing our butts off both here and in Florida, the boo hoos were blaming it on global warming.

So, I guess what we are experiencing now is global cooling!

[andrawes76]

we can always find reasons to complain:-)

here here to those who can find reason to celebrate, even with the AC on...

[Thomas]

Look carefully, IK, mine is not an ideological statement. I particularly used the phrase "climate change."It's too easy either to support or to dismiss things from an ideological bent.

Suffice to say, that if you trace the historical map of the earth's climate, you will find many swings between warming and cooling, in stretches of thousands of years, each dependent on and affecting the other.

True scientists recognize the difference between the weather and an overall climate.
To deny climate change happens is to deny the facts of history.

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[Innkeeper]

I agree with what you say, though not with a lot of what others say.

[Thomas]

IK, what many others say (on both sides of the issue) are merely opinions without any or with little basis--something that has no meaning, at least not to me.

The older I get, the more I disdain willful ignorance.