global warming says "O HAI."
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cimoreneAt this point I'm starting to wonder if spring will ever get here. The sun's out and it's bright and lovely, but it snowed again late last night and there are still visible drifts on the roofs visible in my window, let alone the sidewalk, which is probably either solid snow or turning to ice.
Considering how we got about 2 weeks of summer in late July last year, I'm wondering if I should just cut my losses and throw away all my summer clothes now. Of course it would save a bit of money if you only needed long pants and closed shoes and jackets all year long - and it would spare the trouble of packing up off-season clothes since you'd never have any.
Remember when global warming was something that was going to have consequences in the sort-of distant future, like not necessarily in our lifetime? And now it's like "oops, the end of the global ecosystem as we know it might be in under ten years" and "actually, it's too late even if we never emit another particle of greenhouse gases at all" and "haha, global warming is already here." Goodbye, polar icecaps. Please don't flood Finland/produce a new ice age until after I'm dead.
Considering how we got about 2 weeks of summer in late July last year, I'm wondering if I should just cut my losses and throw away all my summer clothes now. Of course it would save a bit of money if you only needed long pants and closed shoes and jackets all year long - and it would spare the trouble of packing up off-season clothes since you'd never have any.
Remember when global warming was something that was going to have consequences in the sort-of distant future, like not necessarily in our lifetime? And now it's like "oops, the end of the global ecosystem as we know it might be in under ten years" and "actually, it's too late even if we never emit another particle of greenhouse gases at all" and "haha, global warming is already here." Goodbye, polar icecaps. Please don't flood Finland/produce a new ice age until after I'm dead.
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Date: 28 Mar 2008 12:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 28 Mar 2008 02:22 pm (UTC):(
Date: 28 Mar 2008 12:51 pm (UTC)Re: :(
Date: 28 Mar 2008 02:21 pm (UTC)don't burn those shorts, hand me the match
Date: 28 Mar 2008 02:47 pm (UTC)It's okay to have kids, but don't buy any low-lying real estate. Which was never a good idea anyway.
Re: don't burn those shorts, hand me the match
Date: 28 Mar 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)2.) Global warming is already responsible for our summers getting colder and our winters being both warmer and later. It's upset the weather patterns mostly - moving the seasons around is seriously freaky - and the wind from Siberia and the different ocean currents must make more difference than the overall heavier sunshine, I guess.
3.) Finland is mostly given over to agriculture already, in terms of acreage: rapeseed, and rye I think, and of course, trees of all kinds. They all grew here already hundreds of years ago. We also have an adequate supply of domestic cultivated vegetables although maybe it wouldn't be imports weren't also available.
4.) I don't actually have any shorts anyway except for one pair of cutoff jeans that I only cut last year.