a dog-eared town

This is a really funny story.

Vendors and presenters from various eco-friendly groups, including Bullfrog Power, CO2 Reduction Edmonton and the local solar energy society, crammed into a lone tent in Hawrelak Park after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations.

Ha. Ha ha. That’s funny.

But don’t worry, the soldiers in the movement went on despite the blizzard.

“Obviously we’ll have fewer people than we would have liked, but to cancel an Earth Day event because of weather would kind of be the antithesis of what this is all about,” said organizer Janice Boudreau.

“This isn’t about celebrating just the parts of the Earth that we like, it’s about celebrating all of it.

Yeah. It’s celebrating all of it even if it has been one of the colder and snowier winters in a long time and all that. And hey, while we’re at it, let’s not let facts get in the way of our arguments…lol.

And in related news.

All that April snow this weekend was more than surprising — it was also record-setting.

The flakes that fell across the Vancouver region Friday night and Saturday represent the latest snowfall ever on record.

And in Alaska…

Juneau’s snowfall record for April 17 was buried under more than a half-foot of snow Thursday.

I know, one data point does not make a trend. What bugs me is how people went on and on about the hot summer and really, that was a data point, but it was a data point that helped push their politics and now this sort of evens out that data point but I’m not seeing stories about the coming new ice age.