Temperature Madness

The effects of global warming are evident throughout the world. Even here, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we have had a considerably warm winter with temperatures going over 50 degrees Fahrenheit in January. In the film, Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore discusses the issue of Global Warming. He had talked about how the effects of global warming leading to droughts in some areas and some areas have had severe floods, However, no one had expected to see it snow in Baghdad. “‘For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.”

While there were multiple trite blogs from people who were simply amazed at the snow in Baghdad, it was definitely refreshing to get something a little more amusing from Patrick J. Lyons. He says, “people will no doubt be busy stuffing this little datapoint into a thousand endless arguments about everything from global climate change (we can hear the “warming, shmorming” comments coming now) to omens of divine favor and apocalyptic prophecy.”