Editor’s Notes

Global warming and global colding

In the process of understanding “what the hell is going on!” it’s always useful to put things in context. As a child on the farm, living in very cold winters with snow drifts as high as a one-story house. I was led to believe that we were at the tail end of a little ice age that started about in the early 19^th century. I can remember the winter of 1943-’44 when the weather turned warm for a few days and it rained like April. Then the temperature dropped and my sisters and I were able to put on our skates and experience the magic of gliding everywhere we wanted across the fields on a thick-coated natural ice rink. This almost meaningless anecdote comes to mind against the cacophony of alarm about pollution and global warming. That they are connected at least in some small way leaves no doubt in my mind. However, we should keep in mind that our old planet has a way, if not a mind, of its own. And it’s been through hot and cold many times before we came to meddle. So I offer the piece on global warming and colding — more folksy perhaps than scientific, but the amazing facts are accurate.

Otherwise in this issue we turn the spotlight back on Russia and a spat with PricewaterhouseCooper, Russian investigators claiming the Brits are not cooperating in the poisoned spy investigation, a huge coal-mining deal being cooked up with South Korea, and a Russia human rights organization getting ready a document to President Putin about a marked increase in human rights violations in recent years.

You can bet your baby’s booties that True North readers are both informed and entertained.

Looking forward

Carl Dow

Editor and Publisher