Global Warming......it must be Real!

The topic of Global Warming has been a controversial one in the past but the the evidence is mounting on the side of the "believers" with the change in weather patterns the last two years. Growing up in the Midwest(East St. Louis, Illinois) we had harsh winters as it relates to cold temperatures and pretty moderate snowfall but not too bad like our northern counterpart Chicago. I escaped the frozen tundra when I moved to Atlanta a.k.a "Hotlanta!" Yes this was nice weather with NO snowfall! The winters were very mild...a jacket at best. Well that was between 1994-1999.....now lets fast forward to 2011 and Atlanta is being hit with snowfall constantly as well as others cities in the south such as Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, Shreveport, Little Rock, and a host of others. The weather pattern has definitely changed in this region.

Now I have also experienced living on the East Coast(D.C./Baltimore Area) and there was no real snow in Baltimore when I first arrived in 1999. The snow would always miss us. Well that soon changed. We started getting snow fall after 2000. Now lets fast forward to 2010 and 2011. In 2010 I missed almost two weeks of school working in D.C. as a teacher at a Charter School. It was then that I decided that I had enough of that lifestyle of being snowbound and getting cabin fever so I made a plan to move to a warmer climate. California! Southern California where it never rains....yeah right. When I moved here last summer it was not as warm and the locals would say that this was unusual but it was sunny and it did not rain for months when I first arrived here. But that soon changed as we suffered a rain slaughter for seven days in a row a month ago. Everyone was paralyzed it seemed. People were walking around in disbelief but not as bad as my former East Coast friends in D.C /Baltimore as well as the rest of the East Coast. So the evidence has proved that the patterns of weathers has changed. The causes could range from anything from Divine intervention to the shift of the Earth but it most be noted that there is a change. This has clearly proven that something is happening with the weather pattern. Is it Global Warming?