Either we absolutely bake, cook or sizzle in unheard of heat waves, or we freeze our tootsies off in sub-zero temperatures under mountains of snow and skate down the street after an ice storm.

If you’re not on fire somewhere because of unusually dry weather fanned by the winds of the day, you’re up to your ears in water because of a simple but over-zealous rain storm, a hurricane, or a flash flood; and/or a nearby river has lost its mind and has flooded you out of house and home.

Major hurricanes, super destructive tornados and typhoons, crippling ice storms, flash rain storms causing flooding and landslides, major winter storms that dump a metre (about one yard) of snow in mere hours, some of which have never happened before in some areas; are members of the Climate Change Group.

Humans have been, and continue to be, a contributing factor to the Climate Change problems we see today, but I use and stress the words “contributing factor”. The earth has its own agenda but we’ve been adding some extra fuel to the fire – so to speak. There are those who believe that we, us humans, have caused Climate Change lock, stock and barrel and no, we ain’t that good.

The weird part of all this, is the attempt by world leaders to pretend they are super-heroes and can stop the climate from changing into whatever it feels like. They’re a wee late, they/we won’t be able to fix squat. They/We should have started “fixing things” thirty to forty years ago instead of ignoring the foreseeable problems. They/We talked too much, too long – as usual.

Unfortunately, Climate Change may not be the only event us humans are dealing with in the near future.

There are other “Change” groups. The Earth Change Group. Volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. This group is responsible for rearranging the map as we know it. They too seem to be very active these days. Check your favourite news channel or the internet for more.

The Earth Change Group also contributes to the Climate Change Group in a variety of ways. Volcanoes spew out metric ton after metric ton of ash and other silly things high into the atmosphere where it can travel around the world causing major changes in weather patterns.

Earthquakes quite frequently start fires in populated areas, these fires are usually massive in size and release carbon dioxide into the air. This also a by-product of those countless forest fires in California, Australia, Canada, Greece, etc., as well as fires caused by volcanoes. Carbon dioxide is a factor in the ‘greenhouse gas effect’, which is a factor in Climate Change, yadda yadda.

Courtesy of earthquakes, tsunamis’ are an island-moving, people-swallowing monster that rearranges the landscape leaving some areas wide open and vulnerable to changing weather patterns and more storm damage.

When we put these two groups together, the world looks like it’s falling apart. And it is.

Which leads us to the Planet Change Group.

Asteroids, meteors, solar flares, axis shifting, magnetic reversal, and other earth cracking goodies will wipe the smug smiles off even the rich, for they too shall perish!

Anyway, Climate Change will be the last thing on our minds.

These end-of-the-world scenarios are pretty much – well, the end of world. Bring a lawn chair and get comfy, it’ll be one hell of a show.

The Universe Change Group; super novas, black-holes, gamma ray bursts or the other mind boggling shit that goes on way out there, is way over our brains and control. If any of these fun things happen or have already happened but just haven’t shown up here yet, light years and all that – we’re probably screwed, or will be, light years and all that.

Ignorance Was Bliss

During this latest civilisation, it’s clear that we have figured out a lot more than we ever have during the previous ones. We know more about asteroids, volcanoes, and solar flares than we probably want to. We know what could take us out of the great game of life.

We know about planet earth’s cycles. We know how long it’s been since the planet “did its thing”. Maybe this civilization will be the participants in a huge earth flipping show? Maybe it’ll be in another thousand years – maybe tomorrow? Who knows? Makes being here all that much more fun!

If Climate Change is the worse event we go through then we should be so lucky. Compared to dealing with an asteroid or a magnetic pole reversal.

Perhaps we’ll have another Mini Ice Age first, you know, for old time’s sake. Since over the past couple of weeks we have seen people die in India because of extreme cold. We have seen Beijing deal with more snow than usual. England, Poland, Germany and even the south of Spain, as well as other parts of Europe, are working their way through piles of snow and unusually frigid temperatures. Of course, here in Canada and through the northern half of the United States, it’s now winter and I know this because it snowed in Texas. Which is normal…right?

When I was a wee lad, I figured that since everything on the planet had a cycle, then it would stand to reason that earth would have a cycle of its own as well. How hard can this be, eh? Like everything else, the planet changes its stripes every now and then. Maybe it’s more the “now” than the “then”.

Hang on to your long-underwear because things may get a lot worse before they get better.

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