Things to ponder or not.

The air gets it's warmth from the ground, being heated by the sun, radiating heat into the air. Now the earths core is very hot. Possibly over 1000 degrees F &C. I'm sure the molten mass is not in the exact same spot it was last year. As it moves around down there it comes closer to the surface in different places that other places. This will cause the ground to be a bit warmer in one place than another which will cause the air to be warmer in one place than another also. Which explains why we have harsh winters, like this one, and not so harsh winters or warmer summers and not so warm summers.
 Further proof of that is Newton's law that says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So when one place is having a hot spell another place is having a cool spell.
 Melting of the ice pack will not flood New York City. As much as that would be a good thing. I did an experiment using a chunk of ice and an aquarium. I put the ice in and added water until the ice floated. I set it in a stable level spot and marked the water level with the ice floating. Then covered the thing and waited for the ice to melt completely. As I figured the water level was noticeably lower than when the ice was floating. How is this possible? The ice has trapped air in it which is why it floats. The air makes the water expand when it freezes causing it to take up more room in the water tank/ocean and breaking engine blocks, water pipes and rocks. So as the ice bergs melt and lower the water level the glaciers melting will bring the water level back where it was. Another good thing about melting the ice caps is that the air trapped in the ice will be released giving us more, better, cleaner, very old and smog free air to breath.
  I don't see a down side to the melting ice caps other than New York still being there.

Some how an opossum found it's way into the garage a few days ago. Things have been falling to the floor for no reason. I found more stuff on the floor today and gave the garage a good look see. It was lying on the floor under a lawn chair. It didn't move as I pushed it out of the garage with a shovel and carried it behind the garage. I tossed it into the brush.