Getting Warmer

I have never claimed to understand climate change or really take a strong position on it, but it's kind of hard to ignore the fact that something is going on when you read about things like this:

Daily record highs have been set in Des Moines, Iowa (65 degrees), Rapid City, S.D. (73 degrees), International Falls, Minn. (46 degrees), St. Louis, Mo. (66 degrees) and Fargo, N.D. (55 degrees), to name a few locations. Although the record warmth subsides on Friday for the Plains, the mild air mass will bully its way eastward. We’re talking temperatures in cities such as Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit and Cincinnati enjoying highs on the order of 10-to-20 degrees above average. High temperatures around 5-to-15 degrees above average will make it all the way to the East Coast including New York City, Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, N.C.

It's easy to focus on cold climates dealing with warmer temperatures, but here in Phoenix, we had 100 degree temperatures well into October last year. And 2012 isn't off to a great start either with the first week of January notching temperatures in the 80s. 

Or perhaps this is just another platform from which I can gripe more about the shitty weather in Arizona.