Global Warming is Here!
By David Fisher. Filed in life |Tags: Uncategorized
Global warming is here. I have proof.
Anyone who has lived in Boston for more than one year knows that the worst month is often February. It is typified by loads of snow, Nor-Easter after Nor-Easter, painful winds, and a feeling that you will never be warm again in your life.
You can often play fun games like, “Is that a car, or fire-hydrant?” because the snow is so deep. Parking lots often have 25 feet tall piles of snow that they have pushed up from plowing the parking lots; of which remnants often hang around until the end of May.
Cold for most people who lives many miles South of Boston is normally a feeling of temporary discomfort. Let’s face it, here it is often best described by nothing short of pain.
I’ll admit that Boston has been warmer as the records go, but January was just absurd! People were wearing t-shirts and shorts. This isn’t supposed to happen. Surely there have been record setting hot and cold days, but as the averages go this is just a warm winter. It was 66F as the high on January 8th!
On that day a funny thing happened (and no I’m not serious about it, but it was funny.) Some kid representing GreenPeace or some other similar foundation approached me on Newbury Street as I was wearing a t-shirt.
GreenPeace Kid: Want to help stop global warming?
Me: Well the inconvenient truth is that it’s pretty nice out today.
GPK: Uhh, well what about the rising sea levels?
Me (as I walk away): Ever been to Venice? Gondolas are sexy!
Ok. Maybe I’m going to planetary awareness hell for that, but these kids harassing people on the streets bothers me and it was fun. However it does highlight that it’s just too warm. In prior years, I’d never have thought up such retorts in winter months.
When I lived in Somerville in 2005-2006 I didn’t move my car for weeks due to the snow. There were trenches where the sidewalks where supposed to be. I felt like I was in Normandy in WW2 and digging through trenches in the snow. It was great for snowball fights.
Now however I sit here and it’s in the mid 30’s outside, raining hard, and I hear thunder from the storm. Thunder isn’t supposed to happen like this in the winter. There’s not a single bit of snow, nor ice on the ground. It’s simply not right.