Sir;... your words: "In my part of the country", says it all... Like most republicans you seem to think the world ends at the county line... The fact is that global warming means climate change, and that means it will get hot where it should not, and colder where coldness is not expected, and all with more widely spread violent weather extreme... Try for the new year to not act retarded... When you lose your ice caps you can expect temperaturs to spike, and we will know world starvation beyond our ability to help... Think of your whiskey and soda on a hot day... The temperature remains constant while the ice melts; but when the ice does melt the temperature will rise to the heat of the day... Now; we both know we are talking about a hypothetical drink, because a whiskey cannot survive a glance... But we are not living in a hypothetical world.. The polar ice caps are melting off at an alarming rate, and your quaint understanding of science belongs in the past... Thanks...Sweeney