I just read the article on the Albuquerque Journal website by John Fleck which appeared on page 3 of the Journal with the picture. The picture reminds me of my first view of the Rio Grande as I viewed it in August, 1965 from the Central Avenue bridge in Albuquerque. At first view, things never change, but I first viewed it in late August when such flows on the river were more or less normal. This picture represents the river in early February during the so-called rain and snow season. When is this drought going to end, so I can have better luck at convincing myself and my wife of the retirement move to Mesa del Sol. If it is due to Global Warming, I still have difficulty in believing that it is due to the increase of a few thousandths of a per cent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, as Al Gore and his pseudo-scientists have suggested. It msut be due to the long term cycling of solar phenomena, but such cycling can take years to play out. These are years that we don’t have, as far as a move to Mesa del Sol is concerned. It looks bad, but we can always hope for the best. Beyond hope, what shall we do? Should we outlaw all fossil fuel-powered cars along with the industry that depends on such fuel and drive the world into a prehistoric, agricultural based economy where vast numbers of people barely eck out a living growing a little food from the dry soil, as it was common in Oklahoma during the Thirties Dust Bowl and all across the South during the Depression Era, or should we find that mysterious control panel for that great fusion reactor in the sky, turn the heat down just a little, and drive the entire world into a Global Winter? It all boils down to our President’s main one word campaign pledge, CHANGE. Change is the only thing that is certain.