Saturday, April 7, 2007

Beautiful day, global warming?

Looks like today will be warm and beautiful and more snow will melt, ushering an early spring into the Wasatch Mountains. Is it just the end of one rare mediocre ski season or is it the beginning of a long, dry trend?

December, January and February were quite cold and negated a massive warming trend in the Rocky Mountains. Also, Mr. Winter is not quite done yet as the rest of April and most of May could be downright cold and wet up here in the mountains.

Still the glaciers and the polar caps keep on melting… Will we still ski twenty or thirty years from now, when all Chinese and Indians households own at least two automobiles?

Why don't we regularly blast dormant volcanoes to make them spew massive amount of sun-blocking particles into the upper atmosphere? I have heard of other hi-tech schemes like launching rockets to create a sulfur screen, but I’m not quite sold on that yet.

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