Exploring the Why of Freaky Weather

Mankind is a strange animal, in the regard that we are one of the only living inhabitants of planet Earth to use logic and reasoning as we do. Consider the appalled reaction a human being gets when he learns that a magician's act was truly an illusion, and there was no real magic involved. As we grow older and wiser, we learn that such things always have a basic, difficult to swallow and bitter reality to them. We are not as easily fooled, and when we are, we react in a very angry manner.

Our weather is changing, but like the magician's act, the trick has been exposed. We've beaten to death the reputations of Scientists and Politicians alike over Global Warming, but I'm not here to do that. It's been done by enough people.

The true cause for concern lies in the current weather changes. So a few others have misused trust and facts to further their own agendas. That's not a surprise. Knowing what I do of the science behind weather myself, my concern isn't about the cooling or warming. It's about the effect of the current change we're experiencing, and make no mistake, there is change afoot in our global environment.

Seven years ago in Florida, the four seasons went away. They no longer have a Spring or Fall. They have a blistering hot Summer, or a bone chilling Winter. Nothing in between. Ignoring the media for the moment as I trust pundits and politicians as far as I can throw a house, I logged into various monitoring sites across the globe and looked at the temperature variances. I've gotten less chills visiting a graveyard in the middle of the night. In order for my explanation to make sense, I'm going to explain a few common sense things about warming and cooling most take for granted.

The Earth is being warmed and cooled at the same time. While one part of us is facing the sun, the other part is facing away. That you know. What you may not know is that the Earth's axis, it's wobble as it rotates, also plays a significant factor in how far away we are on the tilt. As we complete a wobble, which happens every five thousand or so years, the Earth sort of 'sits up' out of it's normal lean. Not right away mind you, but slowly over the years. As of this writing, we are exactly one year and eight months away from the completion of a full wobble on our axis. It's exciting to a guy like me because I know the science behind it, and it comes only once every five thousand years and some change.

Now for some discussion about the cold polar caps. On both ends of the planet, those frozen areas are literally the thermostats of the entire planet. They can make the planet warmer or cooler, depending on their status.

Take a glass of warm tea. Not hot, just warm. You want to make iced tea, you throw in a handful of ice cubes. As you know, while the ice melts because the ambient temperature of the tea is warm, it also cools the warm tea. People, including the scientists though, forget about the affect of the temperature of the air around the entire glass. It's too warm for the ice to stay solid, even though the water in the tea becomes extremely cold. Not cold enough to freeze on it's own, the tea eventually absorbs the ice while remaining a few degrees too warm for ice to stay. Outside of the glass, we have condensation and a puddle of water that was never a part of the ice or the original tea. The effects of the cooling has consequences for things not even directly involved with its process. (Hence the napkin you put under your glass of iced tea to keep the table dry!)

While the Earth is far more complicated, it's a very basic comparison. What we do have is melting ice at the polar caps, at a far higher rate of melt than ever seen before. The rest of the oceans are cooling off because of it, and the winter storms are harsher because of it. But mankind had nothing to do with it, either.

Ever read those stories where a centuries long dead animal, preserved in the ice, is dug up and studied? These are fur covered elephants known as Mammoths, and they are a tropical animal. That's right, tropical. Like the lions are, or the zebra. The frozen tropical vegetation where they are discovered was also dug out of the ice, and we never really answered the most important question. Why did these tropical animals and plants get frozen in the first place? And frozen so fast as to preserve them from the effects of decay enough to see their shapes, have samples of their skin and hair preserved for thousands of years?

Scientists blame a calamity, like a meteor impact that covered the sun for years and they froze in the ensuing decade long winter. Those scientists will all admit one thing. They are theories. Not facts. They don't know for certain what caused this to happen.

I say we need to look around us even now. I don't think some huge meteor has caused our own weather patterns to go way out of whack. It doesn't take that much of a change in our position in space to adversely affect our weather. In one year and eight months, the Earth will be in a unique, once every five thousand years position, where the wobble is complete. On one day, the planet will be absorbing the same amount of solar energy on one side from top to bottom, while the other side is equally cooled, from top to bottom. Not by a twenty three degree tilt that is responsible for our seasons. The completed wobble will have us anywhere between eighteen and twenty-one degree tilt. Why can't I say for sure? I wasn't around five thousand years ago to measure the last time this happened.

Call me crazy if you must, but something tells me the last witness to a similar event is on display, as the most perfectly preserved mammoth ever dug out of the ice. Like the scientists, I can only theorize. Using common sense however, and seeing already how the weather is changing so drastically as we approach this event, I'm beginning to consider the possibility that there is more to this.

If I'm right, next year's 2010 winter will be worse than 2009 by far. The storms will be longer and harsher. The summer of 2010 will still have record heat markers across the globe before the even stronger arctic blast hits us like a truck. Global warming critics will face down global warming activists in the media and ignore all the common sense that you and I share. People will watch them and takes sides rather than look out their own windows. This is bigger and different than all of their pundit garbage and media hoopla, and I hope beyond all measure that I am indeed, completely wrong.