Run From Rona

It's somewhat funny for this page to pick up the Globe & Mail and read how "unseasonably warm" the weather is "across the country", when I can look up from the article and see the second snowstorm in a couple of weeks outside my Vancouver window. Whether you're golfing in Montreal or toboganning in Victoria, global warming and climate change should now be obvious. It might not be The Day After Tomorrow yet, but that day is circled on the calendar sooner than we think.

Climate change, or an imminent federal election, is now also obvious to Stephen Harper. The Prime Minister has finally pulled Rona Ambrose out from under her lack of depth and replaced her with John Baird as the new Minister of the Environment. Unfortunately, the only competency Baird showed in the first day on the job was to bash the Liberals for sitting on the Kyoto Protocol, and making vague promises for "real action" and "results not rhetoric". To date the Conservatives' "real action" consists of eliminating nearly all federal funding for environmental and climate change programs and turning a blind eye to the stinking oil sands crater in Northern Alberta .

I miss the rain. It was much easier to shovel.