Of course you didn't have a spring. Part of climate change includes neo-seasonal behavior. None of the weather you see is natural. Duh. It's not simply that we'll become a microwave. It's so easy to oversimplify.
Duh, huh? The only Duh applies to people who, mostly with no actual credentials in the hard sciences, make groundless, idiotic assertions like the one you just did, and, as you just did, never fail to mock and insult the person they're disagreeing with--instead of simply saying: "I don't agree" or "That's not my interpretation of these events". Climatological, geological and other fundamental changes to our planet have been taking place for billions of years. Ice ages, warming periods, mass extinction events--all these things and more Mother Nature has been wreaking upon the planet since long before we were here. When we were just discovering fire, such things were occurring. The so-called Native Americans, actually Asiatic people, as we know, would never have made it to the Americas if an ice age hadn't frozen the Bering Strait and thus provided a bridge by which they could cross the ocean and reach North America.
One of the most amusing and obvious proofs that environmentalism is simply the latest religion, to which so many have become mind-numbed devotees, is the continual statements of the kind you just wrote. If it's unusually hot, global warming. If it's unusually cold, global warming. If it rains more than usual, or less than usual, global warming. If there's a hurricane, global warming. There are undoubtedly those who believe the 9.5 earthquake beneath the Pacific that caused the tsunami that killed so many in Southeast Asia was the result of...you guessed it...global warming. Yes, the shifting of tectonic plates beneath the surface of the earth, a geological event of the sort that has taken place since the earth was formed can now, according to those who have drunk the kool-aid, be attributed to global warming or "climate change".
The point is not whether the mean temperature of the earth is changing, which it may be, but rather that armies of nitwits believe that Man is responsible for it. For starters, the fact that, as I say, such cyclic changes have been ongoing for billions of years does not dissuade them. We are bad, we have sinned, climate change is the evidence, and the imminent end of the world through ecological catastrophe will be our punishment. Like I said, a religion.
More to the point, though, simply consider for a moment the arrogance, the hubris, the self-aggrandizement underlying this specious exaltation of Man, putting us on the same plane as Mother Nature herself. Those who believe Man even possessed of such power over the earth give the term delusions of grandeur new meaning. We are ants crawling across the surface of a world we've only been present on for the last ten geological seconds of its existence. Ninety-nine percent of all species, plant and animal, that Nature has ever created and evolved it has made extinct in its own ways and for its own reasons. Take a moment to consider that. We have about as much control over Mother Nature as an ant colony has over New York City. Get real. And by the way, the next time you want to call someone stupid, look in the mirror. The more I hear you talk, the more evident it is that if we harnessed all of your intellectual wattage, we could maybe toast some bread.
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