The snowpocalyptic snowmageddon that swept through Oklahoma rewarded Oklahoma State students with massive amounts of snow, bitterly cold temperatures, and four total snow days. It seems strange that all of this crazy winter weather hit like it did, considering the fact that just a few days prior to the icy attack it was in the mid 70s outside. Now, just under a week later, temperatures are rising again, melting the snow and bringing those sickened with cabin fever outdoors. Could this bipolar weather pattern be a result of global warming? We turned to Al Gore and Fox News to find out.

In this news article, Al Gore explains Snowmaggedon to be a consequence of man-made global warming. He states that the rise in global temperatures is creating all kinds of havoc, causing colder winters, hotter summers, and more severe storms. Fox News interviewed climate scientists, some of which strongly disagreed with Gore's analysis of Global Warming. One says that Gore has no appreciation for large natural variability in weather. Another argues that it is not hard to get temperatures cold enough for snow in a world experiencing Global Warming. Fox News goes as far as blaming the "incompetent media" for failing to provide readers with critical context regarding this climactic phenomenon.

Fox News took the controversial subject of Al Gore's theory of Global Warming and left it largely unresolved in any direction for the reader. Can we call this a climate change, or just ignore all of the crazy weather shifts and call it "a really bad two weeks of winter weather surrounded by spring-like temperatures"? We think Fox left this story the way they did to stick to what they are known for; fairly conservative political positions.

Either way, the snow was fun while it lasted. With that, we leave you with a song:

SNOW!!!!...klahoma

Where the cold front's sweepin' down the plain

And the piles of sleet, beneath your feet

Follow right behind the freezing rain.

Snow!!!......Klahoma

Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I

Travel home from work and hope some jerk

Doesn't wreck our car in passing by!

We know we belong to the land

But it could use some more salt and more sand

That's why we say...WHOA!

We're the sliding the other way...YIKES!

We're only sayin'

You're slick as snot SNOWklahoma

SNOWklahoma SNOW-K-L-A-H-O-M-A

SNOWklahoma, SNOW-K!

(http://community.tasteofhome.com/forums/t/769601.aspx)

Oh The Places We've Gone

Allison:

I learned to read at a young age because I learned to talk at a young age. On the way to daycare, my mom would say words and make me repeat them until I knew them. Once my vocabulary got to be large enough in her eyes, we started reading. Every night before class we read a book. She would read it to me one night and the next night. Dr. Seuss was a large part of our reading library, but the book that taught me the most because it was our favorite was “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch.

Emily:

My earliest memories of reading are from first and second grade. We were taught to read from “Frog and Toad” books. I was so excited to read that I came home every day to teach my younger sister everything I learned to read that day. Needless to say, she was the first kid in her class to know how to read. My mom always read to us and I cannot remember a time that at least one of us was not reading.

Erin:

I remember learning to read at a very young age. I have an older sister who is 4 years older than I am. For as long as I can remember she would read to me. I grew up with the gold spine books and a plethora of Dr. Seuss books. When I was 4 years old, my dad started attending OSU majoring in secondary education. I remember going to class with him and reading one of my favorite books to his college class. It was a book about a rabbit and gardening, I do not recall the title. After that I felt like a big smarty pants myself. I even read to my kindergarten class on the first day of school. The teacher held up one of those oversized books and I just started reading along. From then on I had my face buried in a book. My handwriting suffered so much that my kindergarten and 1^st grade teachers began recommending that I peel potatoes and cucumbers at night. I still try to be in the process of reading a new book all the time.

Early Readers and a Lifetime of Dr. Seuss:

Our early literacy was kicked off by a man named Theodor Seuss Giesel, AKA Dr. Seuss. His colorful books were educational and quirky which makes reading for kids much more entertaining. As adults, his books still have an affect on life.

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)