Dear goodness it has been a beautiful couple of days in Calgary. There was not a cloud in the sky yesterday and it was so bright because of the snow on the ground you had to squint to go outside. Quite poetic. And the best part about living in Calgary is we get a Chinook arch for the weekend. (for those international readers, it's basically a warm wind carried over the Rockies from ocean)

This is an environmental post this morning before I head out for lunch and then to class. I came across this article summarizing a study that had been released in Britain about a major cooling of currents in the Atlantic. The results of this is that in a mere 10 years Britain and Europe would no longer be the mild places they are today, and be more like, well Canada. The study was written by Nobel prize-winner Professor Paul Crutzen and other top scientists. These guys know what their talking about, maybe we (read: W. Bush and Paul Martin) should listen. There's also a link to this story in the sidebar. From my understanding what's happening here on earth is that because of global warming the earth is just trying to balance itself out by cooling off rapidly. A book was written in 1999 on this very issue. Written by Robert W. Felix called "Not by Fire But by Ice," linked to Amazon.com here. The book addresses this concept in detail and relates it to past environmental changes on earth, specifically the dinosaurs.

On a lighter note than freezing to death here's a Bush quote:
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."