THE BRIGHT SIDE

So, you don’t believe in global warming?
Come on down to Lake Geneva and stand at the water’s edge. Look out across the open waters of Geneva Lake and then reference your portable smart machine and see what that and this lake used to look like during January in years past. Look at images that are linked to ice sales, cutting, and hauling. What will you find?  You will find that at this time of year, many decades back, and for every winter, hundreds of people were employed along the edges of the water, to go out onto the lake’s surface and carve out great chunks of ice.  The ice was five to seven feet thick in those days.  The ice was sold to Chicago to be stored in caves under the city as this ice would last there in its frozen state to be used during the following summers.  People also drove their cars and trucks easily, often, and safely from one lake community to another across the lake regularly, day and night.

As you stand looking across the lapping placid surface of the slightly wind-blown waters think about what it was like back then and how that could have been.  Global warming results are right there in front of you.  The reasons for the planet’s surface, for its warming, can still be argued.  Is it man-made (that would be the good news as something can then be done about it) or is it geologic in nature caused by forces either inside the earth or from effects of the sun (in which case all we surface-dwellers can do is stand by and try to accommodate the changes we can’t possibly be powerful enough yet as a civilization to counter). Global warming is here.

Lake Geneva Ice February 6, 2016