Global Warming, oh how I hate you

So this weekend was interesting. 100 degrees by the beach, seriously- a few blocks from the beach ... WTF!? Kept falling into those womb like comas, which then of course would be followed by me sitting up ramrod straight, sweat pouring off me like a waterfall with a look of murder on my face. I would then race towards the only possible nirvana ... looking like a she-devil, sprinting across the living room, hair dripping, eyes raving mad, fingers swollen from the water retention ... into the ice cold shower. aaah ... i lived in there this weekend.

How does a city go from a normal 75/80 degrees to 100 in the course of a day? and how is it that we Californians forget that every September we have this heat wave (albeit not quite this intense)? Well I can answer the second one with a very quick answer: We Californians are like mothers ... we forget the labor as soon as the child is born. It's a defense mechanism.

The first question is not so easy.

The intensity of the spike in the temperature cannot only be something I have forgotten over the course of the year. It was absolutely incredible how quick it happened. Yes, maybe that issue of Rolling Stone in June* (along with every other article that i have read lately) really scared me and seeped into my subconscious, but I don't believe that this weekend was some sort of normal occurrence. I am scared that this could become a normal part of human existence until we just can't exist anymore. I am afraid that one day the summers will be just too hot and the winters just too cold for people to live. No, I don't think that this will happen in my lifetime, maybe not in my childrens lifetime, but I feel that it is a VERY real possibility in my grandchildrens. How can I not think of that? How can no one? And what are we doing as a people to help prevent this? Not much. Unless you count hiding our heads in the sand until the days get a little more comfortable. We need to remember these days ... the heat, the severity ... so that next year not only will we be prepared, we can be a little more knowledgeable and look out to see if the world is a little hotter, a little drier, a little more ... well, MORE. or, we can just sit back and try to forget in the next couple of days what a pain it was to deal with the heat so that next year when our heat labor comes forth we can be in utter surprise ... yet again.


alright, off the soapbox now ... it's time to go back into my ice cold shower ... water retention is not my friend.




* for the article in it's entirety http://www.mongabay.com/external/rolling_stone_climate_change.htm