Canada and the related regions of the world experienced the longest winters of the decade. Snow in March, without a clear surety of ending anytime before the mid or end of April. Well, I respect the opinions of climate change deniers, but at the same time, I cannot negate the winters and their cold and brutal reality that I personally faced during the Canadian winters of 2014.


After having asked several natives, living in the region since long, the most common comments I could gather were, “This is the worst winter ever, we have seen such a winter after at least 10 years”, so much so a 71-year-old claimed, ” I moved to Canada 50 years ago from Mexico, and this is the most harsh winter I have seen since all my life I have lived in Canada”.


Enough of the evidences, time to count on the damages. The roads covered in slurp, the transit systems down, the highways facing accidents, as bad as over 100 cars bumping into each other during a snow storm, near Barrie, Ontario. And not to be forgotten, the ice storm, which hit Toronto during late December, and deprived major divisions of the GTA of electricity. The affectees of power outage from Pickering and downtown Toronto were running around for four days, trying to find a refuge at their relatives or friends places.


Winters or summers, the extreme weathers are becoming more and more frequent. Every region of the world is bearing the brunt of changing climate conditions. However, the dismal situation is, when the governments and publics want to close their eyes and ears, and let the things to happen, no matter how worse they get. Because, to a few people, who are also unfortunately the opinion leaders, worst come worst is, only staying back home in super effective heating systems, or very convenient cooling systems, as long as this segment of the population could afford the luxury.


While the reality is bitter and harsh, so many die of cold or hot weathers each year, and the ratios are constantly soaring. The chloro floro carbons, which are supposed to support the heating and cooling systems, never stop damaging the ozone. The heat penetrates at a very higher rate during the summers, and is emitted back even faster during the winters, not stabilizing the earths temperature, as it used to, a few years back.


These were there horrors of climate change that the climate scientists predicted decades ago. The point which arises here is, is it the right time for the governments to back off from Kyoto Protocol, and not commit to reducing emissions? This situation calls of an action, Now or Never!


The writer can be reached at ca.linkedin.com/pub/anusha-sherazi/29/4aa/a3/

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