Climate change, sure, but in which direction?

Right now, shipping daffodils to Toronto is like giving cutlery to a starving man. The Centre Of The Universe just broke its all-time February snowfall record (a real problem in that the municipal emergency shovelling squad/Canadian army has gone to Afghanistan, which not only has a milder climate than Toronto, but less gunplay).

In fact, the entire Great White North has endured a winter straight out of The Day After Tomorrow. Easterners will be digging out until November. Manitobans pine for the balmy days of absolute zero. One of the guys at the TC is a farmboy from Block Heater, Saskatchewan, where it was so cold this winter that livestock dropped dead and nails worked their way out of frozen fence rails. Even the Lower Mainland was hammered with a series of snowstorms that just missed us, flicking our hair like passing blizzard bullets before smacking into Burnaby Mountain.