I've often said we've got 30 million weather weenies in this country. Phillips believes the world is beginning to see weather from a global perspective, in part because science is demonstrating the links between local weather events and larger patterns. Weather change is not just a vague threat off in the distance. It's happening right now. While the world has warmed and the number of weather catastrophes is climbing, Phillips warns against blaming natural disasters solely on climate change.
Extremes are very normal.
Adaptable Canadians have more than coped with life on the atmospheric edge, as evidenced by our status as the world's top clothes shoppers and a list of domestic inventions that includes the snowblower, the enclosed shopping mall, the foghorn, shopping carts that convert to sleds, as well as ear muffs and testicle warmers for cattle.