I love it when I get hate mail. This comment comes from a reader named "Joseph Peterschild", who is not an "environment phscho". Joseph didn't take too kindly to my sticking up for Sport Utility Vehicles.

How can you say that SUV's are good!! They might get us around now, but right now the planet is totally screwed environmentally and there are still Hummers and Chevys on the road! When the polar ice caps are totally melted you will be fucking sorry! These gas gusslers are not only sucking the fucking gas out of the ground but are also fucking with nature! Also, suburban moms and adventurous dads who drive these vehicle act like they own the road! You don't know what you're fucking talking about when you say you will advertise SUV's. I'm not even a environment phscho.

Environmentally screwed? Melted ice caps? Well, I don't know about the poles, but I do know that my local weather has been much colder than usual. Take a look at yesterday.

As you can see on the left there, yesterday's temps were far below average for this time of year. Forecasters were even worried that an overnight freeze would damage the cherry blossom festival.

I know what you're thinking. Ravenwood, how can you look at one day of the year and claim it as evidence that there isn't some sort of large scale climate global warming going on? Well, I'm just doing what the environmental wackos are doing. In environmental terms, you cannot look at one day, one year, or even one hundred years. The climate of the earth has peaks and valleys. Have you ever heard of the Ice Age? The peak of the glacial advance was some 20,000 years ago. For those of you that go to public school, thats about 19,900 years before the dawn of the industrial revolution.

Considering climates shift over such long periods, I'm not about to worry about the so-called "damage" that my SUV does to the environment. I'm much more worried about the damage to our economy and way of life caused by wacked out eco-terrorists whose main agenda is to wreck Western civilization.