Warm winter days

Okay, so there’s ‘reality’ and ‘political reality’ and never the twain shall meet. In another display of blatant disregard for what anyone can see and feel all around them, it has been decided that we shouldn’t be too negative. Don’t want the cattle getting spooked.
Here’s a bit from a NYTimes article by Cornelia Dean:

“In its 2001 assessment, its third, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that in the next hundred year’s sea level would rise globally by at least a few inches and perhaps as much as three feet, a catastrophe for low-lying coastal areas and island nations.

In Paris today the panel will issue its fourth assessment, and people familiar with its deliberations say it will moderate its gloom on sea level rise, lowering its worst-case estimate.”

Heaven forbid that any scientists should be allowed to report back their best guess. No, we have to make it palatable to those who are just coming out of the clouds. If the head of the company has to do a 180, then I suppose that we have to make it as easy as possible for him.
Next they’ll be looking for a positive spin: just think, when it’s against the law to drive your behemoth gas-guzzling monster of an SUV, you can park it and live out of the thing.
But perhaps the planet is doomed anyhow. I mean a giant meteor could wipe us out at any time (I’ve seen that movie with the ominous piece of crushed tin foil slowly heading towards ‘earth’), aliens could blow us up, the planet could alternately freeze or overheat.
Whatever, it's the beginning of February and that means in another couple of weeks it'll be time to get a tan weeding the garden. For now, I'll watch the birds on the lake that were supposed to migrate, but found themselves comfortable here for the 'winter.'