According to the calendar, spring has sprung. Yet, as I prepare this message, here in Wisconsin, we are again experiencing a weekend of below freezing temperatures. It has been one of the longest, coldest, snowiest winters on record.
This was the year we first heard the phrase “Polar Vortex” on a regular basis as many parts of our country were routinelly plunged into below zero temperatures for days and weeks at a time. Here in Wisconsin, wind chill factors of forty-below-zero were commonplace.
It’s not that we are not used to this in our part of the world. Its just that this winter, we had heavy snowfalls often two or three times a week, on top of the frigid temps. Roofs collapsed under the weight of the snow, and TV weathermen termed the winter weather, “Relentless.”
In the midst of all this, our government was forced to change their mantra of “Global Warming,” to “Climate Change,” to reflect the fact that the polar ice caps are, in fact, NOT melting away, as previously claimed. In Antarctica, a ship loaded with Climate Change scientists, intent on proving the global warming theory, instead found themselves trapped for weeks, their ship effectively locked in place by ice.
Still, secretary of state John Kerry declared that Climate Change is perhaps the most serious problem we are facing in th ...
