Day 169: It is not April Fools' Day. It is March 31, and this is no prank. My peonies are in bud, a full month or more ahead of their normal blooming period. I don't think I've ever seen them so early. On the heels of this comes a news report that Antarctica has reported a record-breaking temperature of 63.5 degrees yesterday. You'd have to be a pretty big fool to turn a blind eye to the significance of these portents, but there are still those who deny the growing mountain of evidence that our climate is warming. However, some will cite the East Coast's hard winter as a contradiction. It is not. In fact, it is a symptom. As the temperatures rise, so does atmospheric moisture, and this leads to heavier snowfalls when the right conditions are met. It seems odd to say that heavy snows and global warming go hand in hand, but those are the facts, no foolin'.
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