It has been chilly in South Central PA, but we have managed to stay above freezing for the last several weeks, which is good since I put my garden in a bit too early. I should have waited until Mother’s Day.
Western Pennsylvania has seen weeks of below normal temperatures with nighttime lows hovering at or below freezing. Local nurseries aren’t putting out tender perennials, Japanese maples, grasses, or other plants.
I’ve had to cover my new Japanese maples three weekends in a row as I’ve tried to keep them warm with old Christmas tree light bulbs and spotlights at night. Tonight’s forecast calls for 31 degrees. Ditto for tomorrow night. We had some snow on Saturday morning. This is extremely unusual for this time of year.
And John Kerry is trying to suck all of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Exxon is pumping it into large undersea vaults it built to sequester CO2. Doesn’t this sound like the behavior of total crackpots? Destroy our ability to heat our homes and power our industry as we rely on solar panels and windmills?
A coal-powered power plant near me has been shut down permanently because of Biden’s idiot directives concerning “fossil” fuels. Forty-three people thrown out of work. No more energy coming from that plant that used to supply electricity to the east coast.
By the way, if you look at American history, the years of the Maunder Minimum were a period when people fled Europe because of crop failures and came to the American colonies, hoping things would be better here. My ancestors left Northern Ireland during this period because, the historians say, there were massive crop failures in the British Isles. It was one of the reasons the Irish started growing potatoes because potatoes could be grown underground.
Those scientists who are warning about a return of Maunder-like conditions are urging that governments start planning now for food shortages as the temperatures drop and the growing season is shortened. And the idiots now in charge in this country are ignoring anyone who disagrees with them.