Japan receives record snowfall

Zenkoji's pagoda in snow scene
Originally uploaded by tabito.

Japan has experienced its heaviest snowfall on record.

Is this another sign of global warming or merely normal weather aberration?

This storm has already claimed over sixty lives and the death toll looks to march higher. Another powerful example of how climate change threatens human civilization.

One concerned blogger frames the question this way:

Will our current environmental crisis lead to the economic or social collapse of civilization? In the face of patently unsustainable consumption of natural resources, and the almost complete lack of political awareness of our leaders and most of the public, is this not inevitable? Global warming is now in progress, food production per capita has been declining for decades, oil production may peak in the next five years or so, soil erosion and deforestation are rampant, water tables are falling almost everywhere that it matters. |Link|