"So, How's the weather..?"

Ok, so you may think i am talking about the weather as people do, meaning when they don't have anything to say. but, of course, I live in Canada right now and the weather is a PRETTY BIG DEAL. Well, when it snows and freezes at least 5 months out of the year...

--but the trouble is, we have a problem because the cold isn't what it used to be. Let me put this in quick perspective: the snow level RIGHT NOW is about 2 feet, max--and i might be reaching. Normally, it is that much in NOVEMBER. And then it snows more in December, and, by the time February rolls around it entire houses are covered in snow. And although we still have a few days this month, this ain't happening. No way, Jose.

So it frightens me, and even more when i turn on the TV (And I don't think they are showing in this on American TVs) and there is footage of Londonians--People from London--literally clinging to poles so they can stay upright. That's how strong the winds are. This is happening all over Europe, and no, it's not normal at all. In southern Germany--note, not Northern--a road that servers as an artery was shut down because it was frozen over. Entire lines of cars and trucks where at a standstill and people had to sleep in their cars in the freezing cold. Why did they have to do that? Because they've never had that kind of a road. Never!

I had this fear, either right after or maybe even before seeing the movie AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (which would've confirmed that fear) that the weather would be getting so out of hand as a repercution of global warming, and the dynamics of earth so distorted that we would have to a) stop everything we are doing in our little lives--making money, buying things, partying, worrying about money, work, everything---and b) start all working together for survival.

I recently read in one of the latest issues of HARPER'S (February 2007), in the section called Findings that a man named James Lovelock, "father of the Gaia hypothesis" believed that "the Earth has a fever, and predicted that a warmer planet would be unlikely to support more than 500 million humans. He praised efforts to halt global warming but said they wouldn't do much good. "It is a bit like if your kidneys fail you go on dialysis--and who would refuse dialysis if death is the alternative.""--Now, I don't know Lovelock nor what his Gaia hypothesis is, but I trust Harper's enough to be thinking hard about the implications of that. And I am not a pessimist, so I won't ever say that efforts to stop global warming are useless, but, really, that's not too hot, if you'll forgive the pun.