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A 75-year-old grandmother from Saltspring Island, BC (why am I not surprised?), has had a brainstorm: She’s decided to journey to Canada’s frozen hinterlands of Yukon and Northwest Territories to “wake the world up to the realities of global warming”.
“Wake the world up”? Anyone who hasn’t heard about the climate-change controversy by now must be comatose.
She’s heard that our ice caps are melting and wants to see for herself, but she’s not going to the right areas.
[S]he will drive up to Prince Rupert and then take a ferry to Skagway, Alaska. From there she will drive to Whitehorse and eventually fly to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.
Canada’s polar ice caps are actually located a great distance north and east of Tuk. Try Baffin Island, Devon Island, and Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Check the map at the bottom of this post.
I don’t get it. Has she visited the north before so she has something to compare the present situation to?
I went to Saltspring Island once, and it was on a warm day, so I guess I should “wake the world up” to that fact.
I imagine she’s arranged to meet up with local “experts” who’ll tell how much more ice and snow there used to be, and how much colder it was in the good ol’ days.
[...] Someone could have phoned the by-law enforcement office for corroboration, but I guess he left his fact checkers back in Toronto. Did someone play a little joke on the Globe and Mail reporter? And then he was taken in by his own romantic notions of environmentally aware Northerners? It wouldn't be the first time. [...]
[...] Another southerner with a cause is coming north [...]