Capricious weather?
Excerpts follow… Paul Douglas, senior meteorologist of the WCCO Weather Team (and author of a book “Restless Skies).” … Proving cause and effect is nearly impossible. But evidence is mounting that a warmer climate is sparking more weather extremes, especially over northern latitudes from Alaska to Minnesota to New England. Warmer air holds more moisture, which increases the potential for flooding rains, tornadoes and hail. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., visited the arctic regions of Iceland and Norway late this summer and, according to the New York Times, he was disturbed by the rate of warming he witnessed. “The Inuit language for 10,000 years has never had a word for robin,” he said. “And now there are robins all over their villages.” Prof. Mark Seeley, who studies meteorology and climatology at the University of Minnesota, said his records show that we have had eight consecutive Novembers in Minnesota mild enough to play golf. “This trend has been mostly unprecedented, historically,” he
