And THIS is just one example of why the "global warming/climate change" idiots are just that....
It seems to actually be getting colder every year at least here. They forecast a "warm winter' every year, yet we never get it
Looked at our forecast for the next few weeks, and it is going to be about 15-20 degrees below average. And it's not even winter yet.
They tell us the climate is warming up but then there is not one consistently warmer location anywhere. ......
Of course we have hot summers here, but last winter was the first one we didn't have a major ice storm in three years! The bad one in 2021 when it stayed in the teens for two weeks, and people died, froze to death, was not what I call global warming! ....
I tend to not get too worked up about other people's belief systems and opinions about climate change and just go by own personal observations and experiences with what is happening in my own location. I've been observing and keeping track of weather and climate changes in my location for more than 50 years of my adult life, because that's what real homesteaders are supposed to do. Although many people in different locations are saying they aren't experiencing changes in their own diverse locations, I can say with conviction that there are certainly changes happening where I live.
During the past decade I have come to the very firm and irrevocable conclusion that climate change is undeniably having a major impact on my whole province, which I'll point out here is a VERY big area, it's not just one small spot on the map.
I came to that conclusion when it was evident that our usually mild, warm and often wet summers here on the northern Pacific coast (what used to be jokingly referred to as the "wet" coast of Canada) had consistently become hotter and drier with each summer being more extreme than the summer before. One of the consequences was that each year brought increasingly worse and more wide spread wildfires. The huge rainforests here are no longer rainforests in the summers anymore. The typical wildfire season in British Columbia in past decades used to last for around 5 months at the most each year, but now the wildfire season starts 2 months earlier and lasts 2 months longer, bringing the wildfire season up to 9 months of the year (so far) with each wildfire season now being more extreme and wide spread than the year before.
In June of 2021, when in some places in the province the temperatures had been reaching up to 49.6 °C (
121.3 °F) and whole towns were being evacuated because the towns were burning, there were 661 people of all ages who died in that one month not from fires or smoke but from the pervasive, extreme heat. Because here in the north our bodies are naturally adapted to cooler temperatures, not to extremes of heat. The heat made me sick too and that was the year I finally broke down and got myself a portable air conditioner as an emergency measure, and I made the vow to myself that it was time for me to make changes to myself and lifestyle habits in order to adapt to the changes in climate.
I have come to the realization that for all people everywhere, changing our personal lifestyle habits and our gardening and agricultural habits essentially have to be adjusted to whatever extremes are happening in each location no matter where we live. I've been teaching myself (and my body) how to adapt to the changes in climate here now and more importantly to adapt my gardens to introducing and growing different kinds of plants that are more resistant to extensive drought and extremes of heat. The past 10 years have been very interesting as I'm making the adjustments, with several successes and several failures. I have lost a lot of mild climate plants, shrubs and trees in the interim, many that had been alive and thriving in the gardens for decades.
The past few years has been kind of like starting an all new, completely different life and lifestyle with new habits and all new gardens in an all new, completely different world and I'm experimenting and playing it by ear in the best ways I can.
I didn't write this to be a lecture, but to say that the global climate is indeed changing whether people like it or want to believe it or not, and if you aren't seeing changes yet where you live right now - be prepared, those changes
are creeping up on you - and eventually nobody will be able to say that it isn't happening regardless of whatever anybody thinks is causing it.
The more northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere is getting the brunt of the changes and impacts first but around the globe the changes are happening and are just reaching different locations at different times. It will be the responsibility of each individual to make changes in themselves and their lifestyle habits to adapt themselves and their environments. Governments and the media and other people's personal preferences and belief systems isn't going to make any difference to what Mother Nature has planned for the environment and all living things on it.
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