The weather of this past year points either to an unusually bad mix up or the predictions from scientists that we are  going to see more major swings in the weather are coming true.

For some time, many leading climatologists have been suggesting that the warming up of the earth’s surface will be felt much different than just an increase in the earth’s temperature of 1 degree that has taken place over the past two decades. It will be felt in wild swings of weather that will cause us to look at how we protect ourselves and what measures we are taking to mitigate the wild swings.

 

The floods in Alberta and Saskatchewan these past few weeks are a stark reminder that mother nature still controls what takes place around us. In recent years the central part of BC (including Prince George) has experienced much warmer than normal winters with more snow falling is suggested by many of those same scientists as a precursor of things to come.

 

The suggestion that we will see an increase of upwards to 2 degrees in the earth surface over the next three decades means we are, according to them, going to see tornadoes where they haven’t  normally materialized. Winters that might see more moisture and in some cases little or no moisture. We will see more floods occurring in all parts of the world along with vast areas of the earth’s surface becoming arid.

 

We may know that something is in the wind, we may know that the problem is the rapid increase in the population of the earth, but for the most part, we are doing little to fix that.

 

The predicted climate changes and the problems  associated with it,  are  no longer the  stuff of  science fiction  or  images of what might happen  long into the future.  The future is now.

 

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.