Forecast: Freezing Rain and Sinking Spirits

April, the Cruelest Month

By Richard Martin, 4-06-07

Sitting in my downtown Boulder office, killing a Friday afternoon as the freezing rain pelts down, wondering if the first game of my son's soccer team's season will be canceled tomorrow, when emails with the following subject lines pop into my inbox:

"Boulder Farmers' Market Returns & SPRING IS IN THE AIR"

"Tri-State announce plans for two mega-coal plants"

"World’s Scientists: Global warming could wipe out 1/4 of all species"

The last refers to the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body that has just released its fourth annual assessment of the scientific record on global warming, each grimmer than the last.

Add to which I just last night watched Alfonso Cuarón's brilliant, dystopian Children of Men, and you've got a powerful recipe for springtime depression. Spring may be in the air, but the world is going to hell.

At least the mountains are getting hammered with snow. Maybe it's time for a springtime skiing escape.

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