Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
In a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
With just a few days of winter left, it’s nearly official: Canada has had its hottest winter ever on record. The hot Canadian winter left many northern communities unable to travel or work in their traditional ways, and bled down into the northern United States, which has experienced an unusually warm winter as well, and appears to be moving into a very warm spring as well, with temperatures already climbing up to 80 degrees fahrenheit in some places far to the north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Of course, one hot winter, no matter how extreme, does not make a trend. Canada’s winters have been warmer than normal for the last eight years though. That does make a trend.
Those Canadian mounties may soon be wearing new uniforms with short sleeves.
(319 votes, average: 3.18 out of 5)
Irregular Times
New Button Designs
65 queries. 0.699 seconds
Top Article Last Week
March 14th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
I heard on NPR today about an Alaskan island community. The island had traditionally been frozen in before the winter storms, and so was protected from the eroding gales. Now, the freeze happens much later, and the gales have so pounded the island that the community has had to commit to leaving the quickly shrinking island.
Global warming is here, and it is already hurting people.
March 16th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
No kidding. Polar bears are starving. Walruses are unable to get to the deeper ocean bottom where their ice floes are drifting, and are dying as well. And down in Central America, frogs are being killed by infectious fungi that are reaching new territories because of increasing temperatures.
Around the world, populations of animals are experiencing the same brutal reality: The Earth’s climate is changing fast - too fast for many forms of life to withstand.