Winter came back to Santa Fe this week with bad roads and work and school delays. The climate record for more than a year now is pointing to a significant cooling world-round. During our summer, ice cover around the Antartic continent reached a record level in 30 years of satellite measurements and South America experienced their coldest winter in 90 years. This winter has been the coldest in most of asia in more than 100 years and much of the U.S has had the coldest winter since the '60s. The Arctic ice cap having declined to record levels last summer, has expanded to a size not seen since 1980 and Northern hemisphere snow cover reached record levels in the latter part of February. Does this prove anything -- no. No more than a few warm years prove "global warming." But for many other reasons, I'm all for national initiatives that would bring us heavily into solar power and also develop alternatives to petrolium based fuel which I think that history will finally look upon as a twentieth century phenominon.