People who know me realize that I have an almost pathological loathing for winter, so much so that I look forward to the glorious moment when global warming enables us to completely eliminate this wretched season.

Winter can be pretty as long as you don't go outside, so I took this out of my window today. It was the first pretty snow of the season, the first time snow actually covered things instead of leaving half-dead grass half revealed.

Taken with a Nikon D300 digital SLR.

Filed under: snow and winter

Will the world heat up like a furnace or cool down like an icebox? Scientists are divided, and recently there has been more doubt on this issue than ever.

But it's reassuring that in places where the climate is warming, birds and people are adopting to the new conditions. A University of Oxford stufy, for example, showed that some birds are laying eggs earlier to take advantage of the earlier emergence of caterpillars.

In Iceland, meterologist Tómas Jóhannesson says “It’s not surprising that the warming effects of climate change can be beneficial for a cold country like Iceland".

I think that's true of the United States as well. Most of the US could use warmer winters.

Filed under: winter, iceland, global warming, and energy