[Shotimes] Global Warming

[van Oss]

What I question is not the trend but the distribution of temperatures.  A 
few examples:

- Folks in International Falls, MN should get a little warm spell after the 
holidays.  It would be the decent thing to do for those poor bastards who 
have to make their living playing host to automakers cold-testing cars.

- I think the best thing that could happen to the world might be for the 
Middle East, for a little while, to experience some freezing weather.  It'd 
slow down the flow of oil, sure, a matter of viscosity.  But it would focus 
a lot of minds on survival priorities, as we Midwesterners know.  Frozen 
soil would also make it harder to plant roadside bombs.  Finally, a freezing 
spell tends to keep folks indoors and offer them time for reflection, a 
moment of pause.

- The people in the Southern Hemisphere have somehow got this whole 
winter/summer thing backwards.  What if we offered to trade them one of our 
summers for one of their winters, and vice versa?  Wouldn't that even things 
out?

Finally, may I just ask if hot tempers contribute to global warming?

VO