By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall (penned in the summer of 2023)
“The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea:
Listen! The mighty Being is awake
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder – everlastingly.”
-Wordsworth, “It is a beauteous Evening, calm, and free”
Having only graduated from high school (I think the quarter-credit for driver’s education put me over the top) I am certainly no climatologist, meteorologist, or vulgar Swedish child, but I am not persuaded of the concept of man-made climate change.
Certainly the climate itself changes. Visitors to America’s high desert mountains often find fossils of sea-creatures from the long-ago when much of the western states were the bottom of the sea. There were land bridges between Asia and the Americas and between Europe and Britain which disappeared beneath rising oceans (gasp!) in times when human technology was pretty much limited to people throwing rocks at each other.
The Roman colonization of the then-warmer Britain included instituting the cultivation of grapevines for making wine, a practice which continued until the global cooling of the Little Ice Age of the 15th-18th centuries froze the vines out of sustainability in the island. The economic activities of Celts, Romans, Danes, Geats, Angles, Saxons, Frisians, or Gauls had no influence on the ever-changing weather.
Thus it is illogical and even presumptuous to conclude that someone driving to work in a vehicle powered by an internal-combustion is capable of unnaturally altering the climate of the planet.
We cannot even predict the weather accurately, much less control it.
This is a season of unusual but not unprecedented heat, drought, flooding, tropical storms, and, along the Mexico-USA border, an earthquake to accompany the flooding. To blame any of these aspects of weather and climate on any individual or group is a burn-the-witch mentality unworthy of adults who can read, write, do sums, and tie their shoelaces.
Personally, I blame all this rough weather on fluoride, cod liver oil, and Catholic space lasers but, hey, that’s just me.
Weather happens without regard for our activities or techno-superstitions.
At least that’s what The Voices keep telling me.
LogoSophia Magazine 
Pretty much my feelings as well. In nearly 80 years I have seen temperatures change gradually from ‘standard’ cold (-20 degrees to above freezing) in the winter to boringly cold (10 above to freezing) with no real pattern. In the summer we have in New England endured summers that required 24/7 fans or air conditioners, 98 degree temps at midnight, and at the other end of the spectrum rainy wet chilly summers and blizzards on April 1st. Only recently have we begun shaking our fists and whining about ‘global warming” in a summer where the temps rarely even hit 80…I blame the Baptists and the ubiquitous use of cell phones.
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