"Climate change is fast happening – much, much faster than one would have expected," he said. "Climate and ecosystems are under growing strain."
It is the afternoon of Friday, January 25, 2013 and it has been snowing heavily for a couple of hours bringing my area more snow in one shot then we have seen all winter to date. This should not be an unusual sight in Ontario, Canada but we are told that in a warming world due to the human penchant for flaming fossil fuel, winters should be getting milder. Someone predicted that there would be no snow in Canada by 2020. In a warming world we should see less snow less cold and milder winters with more rain. My own inclination is to bet against the 2020 prediction. Many ‘ice free in the summer’ Arctic predictions have come and gone with sea ice still present and every winter the ice refreezes. Since the experts on Arctic ice melt don’t know what they are talking about there is no reason to give much credence to the snow predictors either. The climate changes continuously and perhaps now that the SUN is entering a quiet period we will see more snow in Southern Ontario than we have experienced of late. The 2020 prediction will be followed with interest during the next 8 years. Interestingly, the snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has been the largest ever measured in 2012 and the long term trend is up.
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