If I ever doubted, which I really never did, that global warming was a real phenomenon and a real problem, today has erased that doubt for ever. Tom and I just took down the Christmas lights from outside the house. We did this in jeans and light cotton shirts. It is 65 degrees with partly sunny skies. That would be a pleasant early spring day in northern California. However, it is an absolutely absurd day in New Hampshire in the dead of winter, in the middle of January!!!
To date, according to my count, we have had exactly one winter day. There has been one inch and 1/2 of snow and one day when the temperature was in the teens. Some of the locals are thrilled. They are tired of years of slipping and sliding, shoveling and skimming in and of the snow. Yet, most of the locals, and now count myself among this group since I have lived here for more than a year, are sick hearted that there is no snow on the ground, that you can't skiing or go ice skating, and that the snow is not piled up on the evergreens.
You can't argue with the fact that warm weather is easier to live with and it is cheaper than either heating in an extreme winter or cooling in an extreme summer. But, that not with standing, pleasant spring days, in January, in New Hampshire is just not right! It's global warming and it requires action. I hope that I can get myself into action, but I am so set in my creature comfort ways. I am interested to know what other people have and are doing to reduce their footprints on the planet. I am looking forward to reading your belief and ideas
