Art and commentary by Kimberly Harris

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Staying Warm on Earth Day on the High Plains

All the animals have put on special sweaters that were knitted just for them

The animals were fortunate to be well-prepared for the unanticipated cold snap

Earth Day activities are presently in full swing and people all around the globe are posting their images and stories about climate change and the impact of global warming. However, here in southeast Wyoming, this morning we awoke to freezing temperatures and a brutal snowstorm. Even the animals had to don sweaters to warm up. Fortunately, a prolific knitter had prepared for this eventuality even before the winter began.

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Al Gore’s Shovel-Ready Response to Global Warming

Al Gore is digging his private jet out of the snow

Al Gore and friends are off to the climate summit

Is climate change real? How do we reconcile real world experience with scientific observations? If it can be demonstrated that the planet is warming, was it caused by human activity? If so, are we capable of effectively carrying out measures to reverse the warming trend? Can we do so without compromising our fragile economic recovery? Will China and India go along? All these questions have my head spinning…

Yesterday morning when I got up, it was minus 27 degrees outside. It was 49 degrees in our bedroom. Brrr… No global warming here in Wyoming. The snow is several feet deep outside and sooner or later I will have to put on long underwear and lace up my Sorel boots and go take a shovel to it. None of our cars will start, even if I had the energy or inclination to dig them out.

A few days ago, in response to comments made on the air by Bill O’Reilly regarding the exceptionally harsh winter currently affecting the Eastern Seaboard, former Vice President Al Gore countered in his blog that for years, scientists have argued that warmer air around the world absorbs moisture which in turn falls in the form of snow when it encounters colder temperatures.

It must be mighty hot somewhere in the world to produce these massive countervailing deep freezes across the United States. I don’t know what to make of all this, but I would gladly accept some global warming, even just a little regional warming, so that I don’t have to wear mittens while I type this blog. (It was 44 degrees in my little studio when I sat down at my computer this morning.)

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