Snow!

I should look into the Parks Department. They should have programs for the kids.

As to a sense of control, we do a number of green things here that the kids did not know we did. For example, we don't own a car by choice. We used to have one but sold it because it was just too much trouble. We only rent when we need one. Most of the time we walk or take the bus. They also scooter to their school every day.

They now know why we recycle and try to buy unpackaged food. We have only one AC in the whole apt. So we bunk in the living room when it gets too hot.

The problem is, like you say, it's not enough --especially in a city like NYC where most people do not own the buildings they live in. The incentives NYC has created for landlords are really not enough because they address only new buildings.

Don't poison the kid with fantasy horror stories. When I was growing up, I had to endure all this crap about how we were heading for another ice age. Scared the shit out of me. An for what? Don't make him a scared little pawn in your political war.

Actually, since my kids have been in school, there's a lot of bullshit attempts to pseudo-lefty brainwashing by their teachers that I've had to counterpunch with facts and the truth. One of these propagandaish moments had to do with the very subject we're discussing.

It does not help that it has been an incredibly warm winter. That is actually more unnerving to him because it makes real the abstract concept of global warming. I spent a good part of the week allaying his fear of imminent flooding doom. So when I woke up this morning, first thing I pointed out to him was that the process of polar melting is going to take a while.

So he looked at me and paused and said, "Mommy, I guess you're right".

And people wonder why I am so resentful of having my kids in school ... for all intents and purposes, I'm still homeschooling!

That whole "new ice age" BS is based on a SINGLE statement made by a SINGLE scientist in a non-scientific discussion. It was NEVER made by anyone seriously and that scientist fairly soon withdrew his prediction.

You are repeating bullshit either mistakenly or, as Rush Limbaugh did with the "Mt. Pinatubo's eruption caused global warming" myth, intentionally.

There is a solid consensus among climatologists that global warming IS happening. There are hundreds of scientific, peer-reviewed articles backing that up. We are well into warming, with our ice caps starting to shrink. THere is not one single peer reviewed article contradicting the anthropomorphic global warming theory.

So, either you are repeating myths without realizing they are myths or you are intentionally imitating Rush Limbaugh and outright lying about it. Either way, you are wrong.

The warm beginning of this winter had nothing to do with global warming, but with El Nino. That;s a fact. And as for, the consensus of scientists you refer to. Science is not conducted by consensus, but by evidence. Consensus science is not science at all, but politics. There is no man-made global warming.

First off, I personally said nothing about the fact that this is a record warm year. I am a scientist, so I would not draw conclusions based on a single datum. But, as my wife the climatologist points out, this record warm year is part of a pattern of record warm years that is unprecedented.

As to the consensus, the bottom line is NOT ONE SINGLE peer reviewed paper contradicts the anthropogenic (man-made) global warming theory. The overwhelming evidence is that there IS man-made global warming. THAT is the scientific evidence. Have you been reading the scientific literature? I have to the best of my ability. My wife lives and breathes this stuff and she reads the literature and she will assure you that you are wrong...and can go into great length regarding the evidence.

Let me put this clearly as a scientist and husband of a scientist and brother of a scientist: the scientific evidence strongly suggests you are wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Got that? THe theory is now an old theory and has some 30 years of strong supporting evidence. Got that? THAT is why there is an OVERWHELMING consensus of SCIENTISTS that thing there IS INDEED man-made caused global warming.