Global Warming? No. Global Weather Changes.

When I got out of the military in late 1994, after a year I decided to go back to college and get a degree. One of the first courses I took was Ecology 101, and I still remember a guest lecturer that talked about Global Warming. It was his thought that the movement had been given the wrong name. He said that the name came from the seas heating up globally, but he thought that Global Weather Chaos was a much better name. He said that although most scientists thought that man's contribution was undeniable, he said that in real life, it didn't matter, for temperatures wouldn't go up in a not steep but straight line, but that fluctuations would happen every year. And he said look for anomalies somewhere every month. He finished by telling us that to see if this theory is true, look at places that have once-a-century weather events that now take place every five year or so. We asked if only bad things would happen, and he said of course not. He said that mild times would happen more often, too, especially in the west, midwest, and southern  parts of  America. With this year here in Kansas City being one of the mildest and least snowy in recorded history, I am reminded of his speech. And I know that although this winter has been wonderful, next year may come back and bite us in the ass. After all, it really isn't Global Warming, it's Global Weather Chaos.