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N.E. Kansas: The bulbs in the south garden are coming up. Today it's in the 70's and I am fetching leaves out of the pond. Not a one time deal as the south wind brings more everyday. The gold fish and koi are active today, gathering together to see me and kiss my fingers, some like to be rubbed. But they are still slow with cold slowing them down. Eight days ago it was almost as warm and I was doing spring cleanup. All is similar to patterns set up in the last two winters. We have had a dry winter. It rained this weekend, less that .25 inches. We are expecting that the drought will continue this year and create major distress for the ag community. There is an expectation that the rivers will be low this summer and there will not be enough water for business as usual in the cities, but there is very little talk about this...
So are things changing long term? Hard to say, but loss of the Artic ice sheet and glaciers is never short term. Just so happens that I addressed a women's book club this afternoon, they had all read a book on the little ice age and the effects of famines on the history of Europe. I explained how the loss of the Artic ice sheet was an example of an unstable self amplifying collapse of a system and how that then sets the stage for the thaw of permafrost and the release of methane from decay and from the millennia of methane captured in methane hydrates. One book club member had a recent article about how it was 14F warmer 150,000 years ago. I pointed out that that somehow staged for the ice age that followed.
I am not a climate freak. I did not set out to get to this, but I wanted to talk about how nice it is to have spring like weather, even in January. There seems to be something in the end of winter conditions that is so very good for one' soul. There will be more winter! -but today feels great.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate
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