Intellectual Snob Meetup: Global Warming: Boston/ Cambridge Local

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The past 14 months until last month were the warmest in recorded history.
I hosted a "fall colors" walking event in mid October but many of the leaves hadn't begun to "turn" yet. (Cold would trigger that Oh, &, attendees got angry at ME!) There is an explosion of the rabbit population in the Cambridge/ greater Boston area. A few days ago I saw a flock of seven turkeys grazing a lawn near Central Square, Cambridge. [this event was posted originally weeks ago]

Well this is going to turn against human beings, however, not in our lifetimes, maybe, and the policymakers are counting on that... not in their lifetimes.

It is an extinction event? Can the policymakers help themselves? They don't care for that range of vision.
Christmases are very rarely "white" anymore near here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h0otRDNjG4

The entire railway systems designed around Jamaica Pond, Spy Pond, and Fresh Pond "Ice Fields" in the nineteen hundreds were created around the incredibly lucrative market of "Ice Harvesting". Layers of ice many feet thick existed and there were shacks built on the ice and then there was a group of people who literally made these ice sections into territory. This ice was shipped all around the world. Obviously this was before refrigeration... it was kept fresh using hay and could last intact a year. Years later, there were ice deliveries.

http://www.cambridgehistory.org/discover/innovation/Ice.html Obviously anyone who walks around these ponds will see there is no safely walkable ice anymore in the wintertime.

I lived in Geneva NY in the year around 1970 and we used to DRIVE on the ice then... I mean me and my dad. (well, he was a bit nuts). So this global warming is rapid, that was relatively recent.

I don't remember wearing a winter jacket or even needing boots last winter. Slush maybe... and then there was the global warming storm we all remember from two years ago... and as a result of all the workdays off, the baby boom nine months later...

The ice harvesters had a railway bed part of which is now the Minuteman Trail. PHOTO below: skating on the Boston Common-- no artificial ice pond--

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/20/44/ac/2044ac227d50f2719e18eecd56df0aa9.jpg