Freak season lets Utah skiers go 4th – Yahoo! News

Okay, I heard this on WXRT on the way in, and now it’s front page in the Chicago Trib. The people of Chicago are might envious of this thing you call “snow.” Today’s temp is supposed to get up to 95 or higher. No rain in sight, it was a dry spring, and there are watering restrictions out here in Burbclavia. I expect later in the summer there’ll be an outright ban.

And then the other day, there was a massive hailstorm in Colorado Springs, and right now there’s flooding in China. Repeat after me: “climate change.” Our government was saying a while back it wasn’t worth ratifying the Kyoto Protocol over and they’d like the G8 climate statement ‘watered down.’

Meanwhile, on our trip to the Northwest, climate change educational displays were all over the two national parks and one provincial museum we visited. However, the British Columbian museum’s display on climate change was much more hard-hitting and dire sounding than anything south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. No wonder our Canadian friends think we’re jerks. They know we’re changing their climate, and oddly enough, they don’t WANT to become more like southern California.

But anyway, my Utah friends and relations, SKI ON. You might as well enjoy it.