sweeteuthanasia asked: What do you think is the cause of the drought happening across the Midwestern United States other than bad luck? We haven't had a summer this bad since 1988, I believe. I live in northern Indiana and my county has been declared a natural disaster zone due to the heat and drought that we are currently experiencing.

Hey diewolfin!

Cool bat avatar, btw. The current apocalypse is caused by could be worse if it wasn’t for the current El Niño and a salt-shake of climate change. See here.

Let me try my new tactic on you - Think of climate change like a baseball player on steroids. You can’t really know which of his home runs were due to the juice. Same with daily events and seasonal weather (storms, heat waves). You can’t really know which storm or heat wave is due to the juiced up atmosphere. Either way, you know the ‘roids should be banned.

Make sense? What do you think of the baseball analogy? I think I’m going to pitch it to a magazine soon. Feedback.

Cheers!

Michael

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∞  07/23/12 at 04:18pm
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  1. asymmetric-effects said: Yeah, it ticks me off when “madison liberals” (if I may call them that) knock around the “it’s hot, climate change”as much as the conservative “it’s winter, what climate change?”
  2. soyoyosays said: I actually really like that analogy, ha.
  3. eleganceovereverything said: what a great analogy.
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