Thursday, June 14, 2007

Some Numbers for Thought

Just what is suppose to be the effect of Global Warming anyway? Prior to the last 12 months, we have had a terrible drought here in New Mexico over the last 5 years. Many have attributed this to a climate change associated with the global warming phenomena. Then last summer we were deluged with rain. We had the worst snow storms in 25 years in December. And this spring we are having the wettest spring since they started measuring in 1893. We've had over 8 inches of precipitation through the end of May (compared to an average of 10 annually) and we've had another.66 inches in June. What's going on here!

The Wall Street Journal reported from their poll with NBC News that the President's approval rating fell to 29 % while 66% disapproved. However, approval for Congress was even lower at 23%. Just 41% of pool respondents say their representative in Congress deserves re-election. This is even lower than the figures before the last election when the Republicans were thrown out. Hmmmm, is there a space on the ballot for Anarchy?

5 comments:

Lakeview Coffee Joe said...

I have heard that the rise in global temperatures will actually NOT mean higher temps everywhere, but would translate into more dramatic weather patterns. Or that could be scientists just retrofitting their data.

alexis said...

yes you guys are certainly getting some weird weather down there! We are back to normal here: grey, damp, cold. Ah the Netherlands!

stef said...

I think the ballot space should be "revolution".

Anonymous said...

I don't know Stef. Revolution typically starts with good thoughts but then ends up with the Terror, Napoleon, and Stalin

Anonymous said...

And you're hoping anarchy works out better than revolution?