Christmas time is here, by golly...

Ordinarily I would write a rant about how Christmas has become a vessel for consumerism, and how infutiating I find the music in drugstores, and so on, but with the exeption of this sentence, i won't tonight. There are a couple reasons for this, the main one being that i have managed to ignore it all so far. I'm sitting in a armchair in front of a fire with snow outside, and my only concern is how late I feel like staying up tonight. It's a nice way to be.
Throughout history, this time of the year has evoked thoughts of other times of the year. Specifically warmer times. The tradition of the Christmas tree comes from a variety of pagan traditions, mostly in England, in which there would be a "warming" festival around midwinter. This got adopted by christians when they arbitrarily decided that Jesus was born of December 25th. Old british folk carols often speak of being cheery and having bright lights etc. despite the harshness of winter specifically to drive the season away, and welcome in the spring; a tradition which, incedently, seems to work. Throughout recorded history, there has been, somewhere in the world, some sort of celebration of this sort every year, and every year spring comes. Coincidence? Absolutely not. It seems likely that the traditions were developed in response to the annual pattern of the seasons, however, just for the sake of twisting things around a bit, what is it's the other way around? As far as anyone can remember (in human history) there have been these celebrations. What if they do influence the weather? The only proof we have otherwise would be if there was strong evidence of pre-human annual patterns like the current ones, or if we could get everyone in the world to not have a celebration like that for a couple years. Seeing as the latter seems highly unlikely, I will address the former.
When debating the issue of global warming with various aquaintences, I have often been told that one cannot call humanity's influence on global weather "unnatural" as we a re technically part of nature. We are animals, in our basest core, and so if something were altogether unnatural we would be unable to do it, or rather, nothing we do could be unnatural because of our nature. You with me so far? In the past, there have been warming/cooling trends like the current one, but without the influence of humans. In the past, it has taken a meteor of big volcanic eruption to shift global weather patterns, and yet we are doing it right now. This means that we are essentially taking the place of a geological phenomenon (and hoping it doesn't happen anyway). By that argument, is it not possible that annual weather patterns have become dependant on our activities as much as millenial weather patterns? perhaps if we ceased all agricultire that had an autumn harvest, we wouldn't have a winter. or maybe if we stopped having celebrations in the winter, we wouldn't have a spring. To the best of my knowledge, it's not something that can be proven, or even investigated without a very effective global dictator, so we'll never know for sure, but think about it. How do we know that thee information we've gathered on why annual weather is the way it is isn't coincidental. it wouldn't be the first time.