Our lawn looked like it was going to need mowed. Our garlic sprouted. I’m worried the trees are going to bud. Shits about to get fucked, yo.
Winterpeg (aka Winnipeg) is missing its winter this year. We’ve only had 1 day of -20 C (average is 17 days by now) and snowfall has been minimal at best, with less than 14 days with any snowfall at all. In fact in much of Winnipeg there is still green grass showing through the skiffs of snow on the ground.
I work clearing snow and have worked less that 30 hrs since the beginning of Octorber. :/
It’s kind of the same here in Ottawa. It feels like spring. It’s just been raining non stop and consistently 1-5C out. I feel guilty for kind of liking it but I know it’s fucked and is really going to mess with wildlife.
You guys have snowfall?
It hasn’t snowed here at all. Just a lot of rain. People keep saying “better than snow! You don’t gotta shovel rain, eh?” No, it’s not better than snow. Do you know how fucked it is that is hasn’t dropped below freezing and it’s January?? You should be really concerned, not relieved.
The first day below -10° you know they’re going to say “So much for global warming, Har har”
Assholes.
Hamilton Ontario is in it’s longest run of >0c days ever. The last daytime high below 0 was mid January :/
We’re also crawling with ticks these days. Can’t take my kids to the neighbourhood park without having to do a thorough check every time
Here in Southern Ontario it’s basically British winter; rain and fog, and practically zero snow so far.
How did that article not mention ticks and Lyme disease?
Goslings dying is sad, and changing farming practices will definitely have effects, but we’re gonna have to deal with entire classes of parasites that weren’t an issue last century.
This is horrifically tragic, for any and all species affected.
Having been in the wildlife/rehab space for the last few decades, this is unprecedented.
I went for a walk with my mum on Christmas day. We saw two squirrels fucking and she said “I hope they don’t think it’s spring”. I guess she was right. 😬
Comment of the year right here lol
A good chunk of Canadians: “BuT cLiMaTe ChAnGe Is FaKe!!1!”
I come across these kinds of people - mostly boomers, but also a fair number of younger people - all the time. And frequently, there is a super-strong correlation between such fact denialism with both religiosity and conservatism. You come across a CPC or PPC supporter, or a deeply religious person (of one of the Abrahamic faiths), and dollars to dimes they’ll tell you that climate change is a leftist scam.