Lion or lamb?

Maybe a lamb riding on a lion's back, increasingly nervous for its very existence; we speculate about the old weather saw with regards to the month of March.
As I wound up a spate of errands, I happened to be walking along part of Green Lake. There is a dead tree partially submerged, not too far from shore, where turtles congregate in summer. There were already several out on the limbs, including a small one perched at the very tip of one branch. The others tend to align themselves according to size: The biggest get the easiest places to haul out, and the smaller ones graduate in size farther out. As I watched, a huge one managed to get itself up on the biggest flattest section, while another smaller one circled slowly, looking for his spot. A fellow passed by wearing the local team's baseball logo on his hat, talk radio blaring from his ear phones; he smirked, looking at the turtles, and said snidely, "Oh, they're out early! Must be that GLOBAL warming!" I replied,"Yeah, it could be." Another Dittohead for non-science.