Global Warming Getting the Best of Me

My beloved Cannon Mountain has delayed the season opening yet a second time due to warm weather. It’s Thursday, December 3, 2009, and it’s 65 degrees today. All that hoopla about global warming may be true. We measure the veracity of claims like that based on the impact to our selves. When the weather affects my skiing that’s hitting pretty close to home.

This is very disappointing because the weather was decided cool this summer. We had a lot of rain- the third wettest June on record and cold too. So the eternal skier optimist that I am, I extrapolated the cool summer weather to mean we’ll be in for a doozy of a winter, with tons of snow, ice dams, power outages, and so many snow days the kids would be going to school all next summer making up for the glacier winter I hoped for.

But alas, Old Man Winter hasn’t shown up yet. I realize that technically it’s still fall, but hey, fall ends at Thanksgiving. After that the ground freezes and turns white in New Hampshire. If we’re lucky, we don’t see the mud again until April. Global Warming may be rearing its ugly head in New Hampshire after all.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, predictions of winter’s demise may be premature, and I’ll be very happy to admit I’m wrong. I’ll remain depressed until then however. Like the weather, everything is going wrong these days. Health care reform is mired down in the debating pit. The Republicans are being more creative than anyone could imagine figuring out ways to block, stall, kill, defeat, mame, or otherwise hobble the bill from moving forward.

Our only squeaky clean, drug free, American sports hero cheated on his wife and ran into a tree, President Obama is beginning to sound like John McCain, and if that isn't depressing enough, John McCain is sounding like a Democrat accusing the Democrats of endangering Medicare for seniors and demanding the cuts in Medicare funding be removed from the health bill. What gives???

I think I’ll do my part to stimulate this sputtering economy and raise a fist against global warming. I’m off to buy four new snow tires; the best money can buy. So there…