A friend of mine on Facebook said last night that it is a good thing global warming is a hoax -imagine how hot it would be if it wasn’t. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have had a record breaking heat spell. And I do mean record breaking. I have lived here most of my life and I remember 2, 3 or even 4 hot days of hot temperatures followed by a cool down – this has been going on for over 4 weeks. On average we have had 12 90 degree or higher temperatures a year. Today is only the 6th of July and today will be the 16th. And we are not alone, Europe is sweltering with both Paris and London seeing temperatures near 100. I was talking to another friend last night that I worked with in Munich, Germany 45 years ago. We both remembered that a hot day in Munich was 80 degrees. It will be in the mid 90s in Munich this week and a weather station in Bavaria recorded a a high of 104. It has been so hot in Europe that the wine growing area in France is threatened. Our fine wines may come from Sweden and Norway in the not too distant future. The war in Syria was as much a result of the drought in that country as geopolitics. The same can be said for much of the mid east. So tell me again that global warming is a hoax and not a threat.