Trick....or Treat.....?

The frost is on the pumpkin…literally.  The snow started falling around 10 AM this morning and by the time I am writing this, 3 PM, the roads are slippery and dangerous. It’s too early for this, barely autumn! We still have our screen doors in and the leaves on our trees are just beginning to change color!

To be honest, I remember very cold Halloween nights when I was young; trick-or-treating with a heavy coat covering my costume.  No matter how much I would argue with my Mom about the necessity to wear a coat, she always won, and I was always happy about her winning once I walked along for a few minutes.  But snow on Halloween?  I never remember this before and Halloween isn’t even until Monday!  The snow is piling up outside, the freezing rain is pelting against the window, it’s nasty and cold to the bone even in the house! 

They say the storm will only last for the day and that by Monday, when the trick-or-treaters come door-to-door, it should be more in keeping with October weather. But, will the princesses, witches, ghosts and goblins have to wear snow boots for walking across the lawns? 

For those who don’t choose to listen to the science that is quite proven and clear, how about simply opening your eyes?  The weather is consistently crazy these last few years and getting even crazier as time moves along.  Hurricanes in the Northeast United States…snow storms in October…excessive, over 100 degree heat daily, in July followed by constant,heavy, torrential rain in August…snowmaggedon multiple times last winter?  Let’s be real, the climate is changing and it’s time to do all we can to stop and then reverse this trend.

The trick is to outsmart the lobbyists fighting to keep their outrageous profits flowing at the expense of all mankind.  We need to encourage using an energy source that does not further damage the environment and encourage some new company, or even an existing one, to produce clean energy and provide jobs while saving the environment for our children and our children’s children.  Denying the existence of what is real doesn’t change reality; it only further destroys and damages making the fix that much harder.  It is absolutely time, today, to stop denying what is in our faces, the snow that is falling on our pumpkins. We need to accept the truth and stop allowing ourselves to be tricked by big oil companies whose convenient “science” flies in the face of reality.  Once we move in the clean energy direction, we can move forward and succeed in building a cleaner, safer environment for everyone - and that will truly be a real treat for us all!