It was raining a few nights ago when I went to bed and still raining the next morning when I awoke.  It continued raining all day long with even more rain predicted throughout the week.

I share an office with another geologist named Ed.  Only slightly left of the politics of Attila the Hun, he asked me this morning,

“Now who believes in global warming?”

After experiencing record high temperatures during the first week of August and a sixty-degree day less than a week later, I’m not sure now what I believe.  One thing that I do know is that something in our atmosphere is causing considerable changes in the weather.  2007 was the wettest year in Oklahoma history.  More than a third of August, usually Oklahoma’s hottest and driest month, is already the wettest August in recorded Oklahoma history.

Yes, Attila, you may be right about global warming, but weather patterns are changing around the world.  Oklahoma used to be known as the “Dust Bowl.”  Now I’m thinking that maybe I should start building a boat in my back yard.

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