A Brief Comment by Doug Draper, Photos by Dan Wilson
As we all know, we’ve been having some unusually warm weather lately following a winter that never was.
Grass fire in dull blaze in March in Niagara, Ontario. Photo by Dan Wilson
Lounging outdoors in t-shirts and short plants, watching tree buds burst around us is not the norm for this time of year in Niagara. It’s usually hard to find a grass fire this time of year too. Grass doesn’t burn all that well when it is either covered with snow or still all soaked with water from the snow melting.
Yet this past March 23, residents in the Thorold area of Niagara were treated to walls of flames, rolling through the fields of Beaverdams for a good hour or so before firefighters were able to bring the situation under control.
Some might wonder, as I do, if we aren’t going to begin to see more of this, the budding plants, barbecue weather, and grass fires and the like, this time of year. But then that brings us dangerously close to the topic of climate change, which almost always has a way of drawing out the climate change deniers among us.
And I’ll be blunt about it. I think I would rather try to have a rational discussion with someone who believes dinosaurs and Adam and Eve were all roaming the earth at the same time than waste even a few precious minutes trying in a debate with a climate change denier. I can subject myself to the same kind of brain lobotomy listing to Rush Limbaugh or turning on Fox News.
Photo by Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson is a Niagara resident and contributor of commentary posts to Niagara At Large and is also a great photographer, and how we wish we could afford to hire him. Fortunately for us, he shares some photos from time to time.
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