When the puppy has to pee, I'm just throwing him out the door on a long rope and then yanking him back when he's done.
Here's a poem that was just sent to me:
WINTER Poem
It's winter here in Kansas
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Kansas
the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Kansas
I'm ...frozen to the ground!
This is the "talking point" someone has memoed out to the Global Warming people: "Don't confuse weather with climate." That way when your eye balls are frozen and you've got snotcycles dangling from your nose, you can't say this is proof against global warming because you're just experiencing a bout of cold weather. It has nothing to do with the climate.
Of course I never heard that refrain in the Summer time when it's hot and they can blame your SUV and hairspray. Then the hot weather is evidence that global warming is caused by...you! (so shape up!)
What's the difference between weather and climate? Here's what NASA says:
The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.
The problem with the argument that we can't consider the blizzards we are currently experiencing because that's weather and not climate is that climate studies only go back so far as when they started using instruments to evaluate it. Which, in the big scheme of things, hasn't been very long.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when they can show me what the cavemen did to bring about an end to the Ice Age, I may care more about the impact our human activities have on the "climate."
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