Not to overstate what should be pretty obvious, but winter just started. In Canada, winter means cold and snow. These are perfectly ordinary occurrances in a Canadian winter.

We've actually been having unseasonably dry, cold weather the last ten years or so. The weather we're seeing this year (frequent snowfall) is a lot closer to what we had in the 80s, and started in early November, about two months before the 'quake. It's a snow year. We get those.

Let me ask you this: did you feel the earthquake that caused the Tsunami? Anything at all? Because if Earth's axis shifted 2.5 degrees, you'll have suddenly moved north or south about 300 kilometers.

I think you would have noticed something like that.

In any case, Fram is right. Even if such a shift was gradual enough for the opposite side of the world to fail to feel it happening, it would be plainly obvious to astronomers (both professional and amateur) as well as anybody who relies on GPS for navigation.

If there was a shift, we're talking an inch or two at the most. That's not a big deal.

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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.