Big Sky Cairn

Hump day.  How do you think you’re doing?  Remember, each quote is from the decade between 1970 and 1979 or from 2000 to present. Keep guessing.  Answers will come.

____ “Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars worth of damage in thirteen U.S. states.”

____ “But they are almost unanimous in teh view that the trends will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.”

____ “By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south.  Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones.”

____ “The probability of climatic change makes the concern for energy much greater than the ‘energy crisis’ has implied.”

____ “Consider the fact that the last 40 years have seen a rapid growth in world populations with a corresponding rise in the ability of farmers to feed the great mass of people.  Although relying heavily upon inputs of fertilizer, the highly productive food-producing areas are delicately adjusted to the prevailing climatic conditions.  The difference between a bumper crop and a meager one often rests on minimal weather differences.”

____ “Man, too, may be somewhat responsible.”

Be it eight or 38 years, only a self-absorbed GOP foot soldier would judge the workings of earth on a time scale relevant to the short-lived human.

Right Lamn, cause I’m the one preaching doom and extinction in our lifetime…