As the name implies I started this blog to talk about the change in our weather and climate but I sometimes – too often – get sidetracked by nonsensical politics

Probably 98 percent of the laws and regulations governments pass don’t address the problem of climate change. When our governments pass laws or direct their agencies to reduce our fossil fuel consumption we know they are on the right track, but it is a slow track. We don’t have time for slow track because unlike the other 98 percent we can’t pass some later laws to make up for the previous mistakes. Literally every minute we ease into what is already required means even more harsh laws needs to be passed in the near future.

In my seventy-eight semester hours of Geography I studied weather and climate, land forms, cultures, resources, population, and geology. I was studying these topics during the first Earth Day and it was depressing how little and shortsighted the scientists at the time said for or against the need to do something. The oil company’s scientists knew what carbon dioxide was going to do since it was discovered to trap heat in our atmosphere 175 years before. One scientist said there was enough fish in the oceans to feed us forever. Those were the days when we looked backward and saw everything was fine so the future should be the same.

The effects of climate change since then has seen gradual and building on the previous years. Weather is day to day, month to month and even year to year. That is why we have a small reversal in the raising climatic temperature. Maybe the jet stream drops down to the lower Midwest during winter bringing some cold days like we used to have for weeks. Climate change is the smaller number of those cold days and warmer winter days each year. The last several years, each year has been hotter than the previous year. How can people not see the change is speeding up?