Oh No! Oh No! Oh My!

I have been afraid of this. I hope this is not the first place you read this news – as I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

Well, here it is. God has lost control of the Earth. While there is little question that He has been able to keep things under control since He spoke the Cosmos into existence some time ago, we (mankind) have managed to wrest control and are hurtling toward a disaster of our own making. I know the facts may be a bit confusing, but, take my word for it, Earth is now “out of control.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – So far, 2012 has been the warmest year the United States has ever seen, with the warmest spring and the second-warmest May since record-keeping began in 1895, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Thursday. More long-lasting heat waves, record-high daytime temperatures and record-high overnight low temperatures are to be expected in a warming world, said Jake Crouch of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.

Alaska’s spring months were 2.7 degrees F (1.5 C) cooler than average and 10.5 percent wetter and snowier. . .Warmth was evident in parts of the Arctic in May, where sea ice declined rapidly at first and then more slowly through the month. . .however, there was more ice cover in the Arctic in May 2012 than in May 2011. Another Arctic measurement related to climate reached a milestone this spring, NOAA reported: the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide at Barrow, Alaska, reached 400 parts per million, the first time a monthly average for this greenhouse gas passed that level at a remote location. [Editor’s note: We need to start a forest in that area. That will help won’t it? And get rid of those flatulent reindeer.]

I suppose there is nothing we can do, really. Sorry! I guess it had to happen sometime. If you miss these notes for the next few days, don’t worry. I am on my way to Alaska to personally see if I can cool things down a bit.