Climate Destabilization-Not Global Warming

We got our call from Texas on Christmas this past week.
Houston was 31 F, here in Green Bay, Wisconsin we were at 39 degrees. In the hours leading up to the phone call, the news was reporting nearly two feet of snow in Texas, but here, in the hours before the phone call, many hundreds of miles North, we had received two inches of rain. The topsy-turvey world was participating in Saturnalia right along with her human inhabitants! I have studied Meteorology since childhood back in the sixties. Normally, we were taught that High and Low pressure cells were relatively small, compared to today where we have had a few in the past few years that cover the entire continent. We also learned that cells of relatively low pressure were almost always interspersed with cells of relatively high pressure. This is not the case anymore. Recently there have been more and more ridges of pressure that align several low pressure cells in groups, but no highs to speak of.
Wacky yes, unpredicted, no. Climate destabilization was the name for the effect, even before Ronnie Reagan gort into office. The term Global Warming was used successfully to obscure reality. It sounds good to me too, but the truth is more troubling. The Climate has changed. What we are experiencing is aberrant. The question now is how do you plan for and adapt to constant change? Hotter, drier, wetter, colder, windier, etc. we will all face this together and it is past time to decide together what we are going to do about it. Like the alcoholic in denial, we get mad, point fingers, act like there is no problem, but the facts keep staring us in the face. Luckily, one of the things in our corner is all life's ability to adapt. Let us hope evolution will aid us in our change, but also let us get the words right in spite of the the global media interests that want us to remain uneducated consumers with an insatiable apetite for business as usual.