New York City is sweltering in the heat while Dallas is cooler than normal.

Climate change – the new buzz word for 2013. We all know that the weather is really odd these days, and climate change is driving stronger storms, fueling raging wildfires, and swinging temperatures all over the map (pun intended).

Mother Nature is proving a point when the global winds reverse direction, as they did in July 2013. The New England states have triple digit heat indexes while the Southern states enjoy temps in the 60s and 70s.

Since I am living in Texas and am enjoying an abnormal high temp of 70 degrees with rain – IN JULY ??? – I am not complaining, but if I lived in New York City, I would be pretty upset with the urban heat index keeping the temps in the 90s as a low at night.

Wow. Climate change is here, no doubt.

How Much Longer Will This Last?

How much longer will these wonky weather changes last? They ARE going away, right?

Industrialized nations have been enjoying a fairly consistent lifestyle over the past 200 years. There’d be one or two major storms a year – a hurricane here or a tornado there – a nuisance yes, but eh, people get over it.

We have never lived through the increasing number of natural disasters like we are experiencing today, though. Our general belief is one of “out of sight is out of mind.”

Since Westerners have not experinced many natural disasters before now, we believe that they will come and go, and that we won’t have to deal with them for another 100 years or so.

Well, all that’s changing.

Over time, we have gotten too comfortable, so we developed, and developed some more, and then over-developed to the point that we have now created an imbalance with our surroundings. Now, when natural disasters occur, we are smack-dab in the middle of them.

We blame Nature when we lose our possessions – we feel like victims – we do not understand that human development has made these mistakes – we would rather change Nature to fit into our convenient routines as opposed to changing our modern ways to respect Nature.

Well, all that’s changing.

Dallas is typically under triple-digit heat in July, but due to climate change this July, Dallas is experiencing 70s for the high.

New York Versus Dallas

For all we know, New York City may be permanently living with hot summers and Dallas may begin enjoying the cooler summers that New York used to have. These changes may be the way things are going to be for the next 100 years. Only Mother Nature knows the answer to that.

One thing we all must do from here on out is pay closer attention to Earth changes and learn how to go along for the ride.

Pushing against nature is NO winning solution. Trying to control nature to keep things the way they have always been is FUTILE. Playing the victim is useless.

This Is Out Of Our Control

All we can do as modern, technological humans is learn how to return to the basics of life on Earth because nature – this planet – probably doesn’t even know that we are here. The Earth is a living thing, and it is merely our vehicle in which we experience life.

Humans are NOT driving this bus – the cosmos is. Once we realize this, we can better change WITH Earth changes. Then, there are NO victims.

This is our only way to survive drastic Earth changes – changes that have flip-flopped New York City with Dallas! And, there’s more to come …