Vancouver Sept 24 2011 01a

Vancouver Sept 24 2011 01a, a photo by VancouverDoug on Flickr.

For us on the south west tip of Canada, as of late September 2012, our dog-daze-'o-summer have yet to transition into an earnest fall . I saw people swimming in English Bay today. Crazy.

Global warming. Sigh. It's like watching a disaster flick only in ultra-slow-motion. However, in keeping with Hollywood I think global warming will have a happy ending. In the end global warming will prove to be a good thing for us as a species rather than something bad. We humans are awesome adapters and the bigger the challenge the better we are at adapting. As Jeff Goldblum's non-human character said to Karen Allen in the move "Starman" - "When things are at their worst you humans are at your best.".

Proof of this is as close as 25 million years ago when an extinction level comet created what today we call the Gulf of Mexico. The dinosaurs, being less cold resistant than us mammals were .. eliminated. (Except for a few fish and the alligators of course.)

Being warm blooded our ancestors adapted quickly and have since dominated over the ancestors of the dinosaurs - the lizards.

Go us. Smart adaptation is in our DNA. :)

This shot is from a bit over a year ago. Another nice pocket of sunshine appears over Vancouver.