Mar 222014
I looked out my window this morning, and this is what I saw:
I keep thinking that this is how Ice Ages start: spring arrives later and later, winter arrives sooner and sooner, until one year, there is no summer… the snow never completely melts. The next year, more snow arrives and soon (in a few decades) there is a glacial layer of compacted ice that will eventually thicken to a depth of a kilometer or more. And then, it’s here to stay for the next hundred thousand years or so.
No, I don’t expect an Ice Age to arrive on our doorstep just yet, but maybe this view explains why Canadians appear less concerned than they should be about global warming.
Meh. It’s Ottawa in March. A major blizzard in the last week or two of the month is nothing unusual. If we’re lucky, it won’t keep snowing into April, but that happens once in a while, too.