"Climate shift" being defined as we speak.

Read a couple of interesting news stories recently. I can't find links to them, so I'll have to just summarize them a bit.

Story number 1

Apparently, glaciers worldwide have begun advancing. Not just no longer retreating, but actively advancing. A couple of little villages in the Himalayas have been evacuated just barely in time--they were crushed about a week after the last one was emptied. Antarctica's ice shelves are thickening, and extending farther out beyond the edge of land. The entire Arctic is covered in a thick sheet of ice for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Scientists are tentatively positing that we may be heading into an episode of global cooling. Caused by, you know, El Nino, or some such.

Story number 2

This one is related to story number 1. Canadians are illegally crossing our northern border, fleeing the expanding glaciation that's eating their country. The Canadian government is wrangling for political and environmental asylum for all Canadian nationals. Our government is considering permission, with a few caveats--they don't get to vote in our elections and screw us up again, and they have to work and pay taxes (and they have to pay for any medical care--either through purchasing insurance or by cash on treatment--their "government" cannot). Their government is pushing for amnesty for our current illegal residents; our government is saying "Sure. If your government is willing to pay a $25,000 dollar fine for each illegal we find once this deal is made."

Put together, these stories suggest that the term "global warming" turned into "climate shift," and "climate shift" is being redefined as "Holy shit, it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."

Or a Canadian, which arguably have no more balls than a brass monkey.