Few people say they came to the east coast for college for the winters. I guess I am in that odd duck flock. With all the complaints about record-breaking cold and abnormally high snow pack, this winter is a lot closer to historical averages than some of the past three have been. One way to sum up complaints about the cold is that some people must be nutsand looking forward to the wrong parts of climate change. To respect winter is not to hate summer, but it is to respect winter snows and cold for preserving the seasonality of plants, providing a sustainable water supply, and providing a surface for the sun to reflect off. Any worries about what a pain it is to dress for the cold can also be easily appeased by not having inside temperatures resembling saunas.
