What Next!?

On our TV screens the weather announcers are having a field day. They are acting like film performers who have suddenly been promoted from feature roles to star status.  Take a look at their expressions.  How hard they are trying to hide their happiness, their thrill of being center stage as they broadcast one terrible weather crisis after another.

The newest disaster, the volcanic ashes from the Iceland eruption, seems to be spreading chaos over an ever growing part of northern Europe. Nobody seems to be able to forecast, not even the “experts,” just how much all of us may be affected by this.  Obviously, travelers are already caught in a web of confusion, their plans in disarray.  Hotels are reaping the benefits but the airlines must be feeling trapped in a situation more horrendous than they could have imagined.  And what about the inhabitants of the countries in the path of those ashes?  How are they reacting?

Here in the USA we have spent so many ridiculous hours discussing serious issues like Tiger Woods’ après-golf adventures that even the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes were back-staged.  Let’s get serious, people.

We mock the do-gooders, the prophets of doom, who carry on about “Global Warming.”  Should we listen more respectfully to them?  How much “warmth” do we need to experience a more terrifying explosion from the underbelly of our planet?

Of course, as the anti-Global Warmers contend, these events were notman-made.  Terrible things have been happening on this planet for millions of years.  Remember when we had Global Cooling with the Ice Age? Remember the story of Noah’s Ark?  We experienced all kinds of natural disasters long before the automobile and the industrial revolution became important parts of our world problems.

Perhaps the real meaning of “Global Warming” is that humans have been entirely too warm. We have been cuddling a little too close.  Can it be that our real peril is over-population?  Let’s call it “People Warming.”