Evidence before your eyes

Climate change it is this thing that people don't want to be responsible for so they tell themselves that it is not true.  It is the wealthy that most often suffer from this problem.  They are insulated from the changes to the environment, they are isolated from time.  I think it is because their wealth allows them so much freedom to move across the planet at anytime in the year.  They can if they feel like going for a sky trip go somewhere to ski at any time of the year.  If they want to go to the beach they go to the beach or a beach across the world whenever they desire.  They are not stuck to one timeline, stuck in one location and so they do not see the passage of seasons and the changes in time.  Each year is different and there is not record in their mind that they can refer to.  

Also, they are mostly responsible for the changes in the world.  The poor person contributes to climate change in the same way, they consume, drive places, and they do this in ways that is dictated to them.  The wealthy person is more likely the person who is telling other people what they can do.  They decide if the factory is going to be well insulated, they decide what they heat the factory with, they determine which technologies are used.  For example, factories are usually large boxes with thin walls or thick concrete walls and flat roofs.  An extra layer on the outside, insulation would keep the space warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.  The roof could be filled with solar panels, the solar panels would create energy for the factory and shield the roof from the sun in the summer.

There is evidence that one can see right now where I live.  I was up taking care of my parent's house while they were gone on vacation.  The lake did not freeze over.  There was a cold day that the ice froze out an additional 400m but the ice did not reach the other side.  That was the second time that the bay did not freeze over.  Second time in five years.  The ice usually froze to the point where you could drive a car on to the ice.  Thirty years ago the temperature in the winter would sometimes drop to -40°, now it rarely drops to -30°C.  This year it might have dropped to -25°C.  The plant zone map has been revised for Canada this year, the last update was in the early 80s.  Since then the all the zones in the country moved up one or two zones, back in Boonieland and Smallville the zones have moved from a 4a to a 5a.  In Big Smoke, it has moved from a zone 6a to a 6b and in suburbia I am living in a zone 7a.  Each zone is spaced about 5°C apart for winter lows, meaning the biggest factor in plant survival is winter temperature and the winter temperature of most places in Canada has risen 5-10°C.

I started landscaping yesterday.  February 25th.  The day before the temperature hit +17°C, the high of a week of warm weather in the burbs.  That is a month earlier than the usual time, no, a month and a half.  

But no, Climate Change is a conspiracy by the Chinese.  

It will get worse.  The droughts will increase, not in Canada, in the mid latitudes.  Like Syria and Sudan and all the other regions that are on the borders of dry areas are getting drier.  People move from the dry area move to the wetter areas and those areas cannot support them.  They have conflict and wars develop.  People are displaced from these wars and they move across the globe and there is unrest in these locations too.  This is the ultimate problem of Climate Change.  It is visible right now.  Climate Change is here and it is going to become worse.