Editor’s Column: It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature

When I was a kid there was a popular series of television commercials for margarine that ended with the words, “It’s not

nice to fool Mother Nature,” followed by dramatic thunder and lightning triggered by an angry middle-aged woman. (As a middle-aged woman there are so many places I could go with this line of thought, but I digress.)
The point of the commercial was that you can’t trick Mother Nature into thinking…