27 Apr 2008
http://timblair.net/
In accordance with tradition, Gaia stomps her fans:
The St. Peter Food Co-op tried to be nice to Mother Earth, but she wasn't
nice back.
The group's first Procession of the Species Earth Day parade had to be
postponed after organizers were greeted with a coating of snow, high
winds and temperatures hovering near freezing Saturday morning.
All over Minnesota - Lileksland, to blogfolk - conditions are abnormally
frosty:
Places across the state saw a wide range of snowfall Saturday, on the
final weekend of April.
To give you some perspective, on the same day last year, it was 85 and
sunny.
One Minnesota newspaper is now inclined to scepticism:
Bemidji has again been buried in snow for the third weekend in what is
supposed to be spring ...
So this is global warming? From our own little corner of the globe, it's
a concept that of late is hard to grasp.
Concept-wise, the Australian warmther who last year screeched "What are
you doing about global warming? There is no snow, there is no snow" may
now deal with this:
A cold snap at the Anzac Day long weekend brought up to 25 centimetres
of snow to Victoria's alpine resorts and much-needed rain across the
state.
With the official start of the ski season still five weeks away, Mount
Hotham got the best of the winter-like weather, with its main runs
covered in snow.
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
".it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those
who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming
the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental
philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the
freedom and well-being of the individual." Dr. George Reisman's book
Capitalism
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