Surviving a Heat Wave...

     ... is not an easy thing to do.  It is Thursday, June 22, 2017.  We have had temperatures of 100 degrees, or higher, for the past six, and soon to be seven, days.  It is, at this point, the third longest heat wave of the last 150 years.  The longest was eleven days, next was nine days, now six straight days of 100+ degree weather.  It is an odd series of weather conditions, seeing as how seven days ago, we had rain, hail, lightning, thunderstorms, and enough snow in the Sierra's to cause chain requirements on both I-80 and US-50.  Just last week!!!!

     No, I'm not jumping on the global-warming band wagon.  I've spent a number of June days -- and a couple of May days as well -- sweltering through the last days of classes at Vaca High, and that's just over the last 50 years.  In my lifetime, we've seen a number of drought days/years, and then have a rainy year that brings us out of it, for a while.  It's a cycle, sometimes things get really bad, because the people in charge of the reservoirs work on projections, rather than realities.  An example: let's just say that since our last rainy season officially ended a drought, one projection would be that we would have another year of like precipitation, and reservoirs dump millions of acre feet of fresh water out to the sea.  If the following year does not pan-out for rainfall, we have great aerial shots of receding shorelines at our lakes, throw on a 15-second diatribe about global warming, and your get that "heard it here first" sound bite that will look prophetic as the weather cycles between rain and drought...

     Yes, it is terrible, the amount of hydrocarbons we release each day, but it's insignificant when compared to that of China, India, and Europe.  Each of those areas produce industrial pollution many times more than the USA does, and not even the more "doom and gloom" factions of the global warming folks will deny that.  And yet, the US will pay to reduce its contributions to pollution, while the biggest polluters aren't required to reduce anything.  In essence, the Paris Climate Accord put the US in a "cap and trade" situation, where companies would be able to buy the opportunities to increase their "cap," but do nothing to regulate the pollution created by other members of the accord.  Essentially, we were in it because our leadership was stupid enough to believe that China, India, Europe, or Russia really gave a crap about global warming, or the effect that their pollution might have on that theory.

     This is just my own thinking, here, but I believe that all of the "leaks" that have happened since 2008, have been by the global-warming faithful, to nations that are being perceived to be allied in the cause of global warming.

     Think about that for a few minutes...