The Positive Side of Global Warming

Since it’s a festive time of the year, let’s concentrate on the positive side of global warming:

It’s been no secret that Ukraine is in for a rough winter this year: for months, we’ve known that the country’s energy supply was flirting with an inability to meet demand. Now, as winter has finally arrived, Kiev’s energy strategy seems to rely on the hope that temperatures don’t drop too low. . . This Christmas, global warming could do some good for a change.

As annoying as this weirdly warm winter is to me personally, it will be amazing if these temperatures keep in Ukraine until March. Kharkiv, the city where I was born in Ukraine, has the same climate as Montreal, Canada. As you can imagine, it can get bitterly cold in winter. I remember sleeping in a fur-coat with every blanket in the house piled on top of me back in 1996-7 whenever the Russians would turn off the energy supply to pressure Ukraine’s government into something or other.