OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.
But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.
If our climate pans out this way over the next decade, I'm going to have a lot of gloating to do over the near-religious belief and refusal to consider alternatives either in science or policy that the global warmers have demonstrated.
Remember, the climate change people don't actually understand our climate. They simply take what they think they know and create models that "prove" their theory right! Doesn't that seem a little too convenient?
Anyway, watch that big hot thing up in the sky. It shouldn't be a shock that it might actually have something to do with how hot our planet is:
The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.
If recent reductions in solar activity continue, the talk of global warming will die out as all fads do. And a lot of people will be embarrassed at their current fervor for crippling our economy over what may or may not be a problem and which we may or may not be causing.
