Vasu
Reddy From Chicago
This
week we are bracing for another polar vortex. Its only the second
week of November and a couple of weeks away from thanksgiving of
2014, but we already are bracing for really cold weather. Last year
when the word polar vortex was popularized by the news channels
(constantly), I had the impression that this polar vortex phenomenon
was only once in a while happening, and did not expect it to be as
soon as with in a year of the last polar vortex.
We
had a relatively mild summer in Chicago this year after a regular
winter last year. Actually the summer time seems to just come and
go, as there was no let up of winter until late into the spring and
the winter has already arrived by early November. After all these
years of life in Chicago, the cold weather doesn't bother me, but it
is interesting to see the winters come early and be severe for
several months. This was the pattern we are used to here, but for a
few years we had mild winters and the talk of global warming becoming
very fashionable.
There
is nothing to shy away from speaking of the abuse humans inflict on
the environment, and how we trash everything around us. We simply
love to generate garbage 24/7/365 and no stopping how much and how
many different ways we have for creating trash. The biggest
challenges for mankind will be trash management and as we have more
and more of us every year, trash management will continue to be a
great challenge for the human race. We have so far destroyed
thousand of species, and we continue to destroy other animals, birds
and living being, and also land, forests, trees and environment, and
we have no shame in dumping on the fresh water and sea water. Our
thirst for garbage creation and uninhibited dumping is unparalleled
phenomenon, which is only second to human greed. The governments and
environmentalists and scientists and everyone else continue to warn
us of grave and destructive consequences of dumping, which never seem
to help in containing our desire for creation of garbage. The man
kind has insatiable appetite for junk creation and dumping and no
amount of alarm raised has not hampered our aptitude for garbage
creation.
The
weather patterns had been unpredictable for a few years and the clod
season becoming less severe, but the last year was as common a winter
as it should be in Chicago, and this year seems to follow suit with
the normal and harsh winters of the windy city and its surroundings.
The link to dumping on earth and global warming, and the changes to
the weather patterns, all are true, but the severe winters coming
back with a bang are also true. It doesn't mean that global warming
is not a destructive phenomenon. We simply might get harsher than
normal winters, and polar vortex which was a rare occurrence becomes
a normal weather pattern every winter.
Unabated
dumping and destructive environmental practices will have an impact
on generations to come, and whatever corrective practices we will
instill with the global population, will have to be adopted by
everyone. Allowing for exceptions and keeping economics in front of
environment, will not help the world. Cleanup drive in every part of
the world, and respect for the surroundings will only help foster the
planet for millions of years to come.
The
severe weather patterns and changes to the cyclical patterns of
seasons will not be corrected overnight, because the damage has been
caused over decades of human abuse and dumping in every place on
earth; land, water, air and even space junk is dumped without
abandon.
For
some reason known to the man upstairs the earth seems to bear the
brunt of the humans, and keeps rebuilding and surviving the onslaught
of dumping. We continue to see the beauty of the nature and seasons,
and the life across the planet. We also see the devastation that we
cause each time there is a catastrophe, and also see the mother earth
some how reinvent the
Winter
is here, and early in 2014. This sinks well with the normal weather
patterns for the Midwest, and two years in a row the weather cycles
seem to be normal. If this continues for years to come, Chicago will
remain the windy city and our weatherman will have no new issues
except report normal weather patterns. Its great to see the normal
weather for two years in a row in Chicago, and it will be great to
see the weather normal for time to come.
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