Reflections on Global Warning

I have a story to tell and I just hope it fits in with the topic currently raging in the news known as what are the causes that have brought about the ubiquitous danger to planet Earth known as global warming.

My story is real and the devastating effects I and my atrium felt were complete and we never recovered. Many years ago I lived in Tarpon Springs, Florida, famous for their harmless black king snakes. While living there I
decided to have a fancy outdoor pond located in my atrium. My atrium was protected by large, stylish, black, Spanish wrought iron fencing. The pond area was oval and the dug out pond was coated with stucco like cement. It had water proof electrical outlets to plug in a fountain. I painted the white stucco a Greek powder blue. I next filled the pond with water and plugged in a brilliant splashing fountain that I had purchased at a far away pond shop. I say far away since it took me a good one hours drive to find the place. I then laid in several choice specimen of water lilies. And, then, I added some large, extravagant gold fish. Those gold fish were some of the best pets I have ever owned. Each morning when they felt my footsteps in the garden path leading to their pond, they would surface with their mouths wide open to be fed! At night, I had added a colorful light that glistened on the spurting fountain waters. It was beautiful.

But, as in the Garden of Eden, I had a lurking feeling that in such beauty their had to be a devil. And, sure enough he surfaced. A frog the likes of which I hope never to have to see again jumped out of the pond and landed on a lily frond. I was mortified. When I looked into my beautiful pond, I was brain shocked to see what looked like millions of tadpoles! My large fish had disappeared and there was the vulturous frog and her swarming disgusting tadpoles in their place. As in all times of disaster, a strange calmness overtook me. I began to clean out my pond.

First, I took out all my water lilies and placed them into plastic bags. I drove to a local aquarium and donated them. I then drained the pond by using a hose. I captured the frog in a bag and took him to the river where I let him live. I hosed out my pond with clean water, drained it, and let it dry. The reason why I took such drastic measures was because the frog in one night's time had managed to corrup my Eco system in the pond. The fish could never have lived in that pond since the tadpoles were choking off all the available oxygen. The cause for this sudden destruction was a frog. The effect was the warming of the pond water to such an extent with all those millions of tadpoles to prohibit the life of any other inhabitant of the pond. I didn't want to see my lilies die.

The frog was not a man made cause for such oxygen sucking pollution that caused the demise of my friendly pond habitat. The cause was a natural part of nature that thrived on a bounty of fresh fish, we!
ll-oxygenated water and huge water lilies to hide under. The frog was the cause of what I am beginning to perceive as a miniature example of global warming. I can't imagine planet Earth waking one morning to billions of tadpoles and no gold fish.