Only somewhat connected to it. That timeloop is precisely what kept the country from being frozen over completely, though we hadn't known it at the time.

[ Hmmmm. Not much she can say on it exactly, but she weighs her words anyway. ]

... I was part of the hero's party to move the clock forward once more, but I theorize that it would have been a hopeless case without that unusual circumstance. We were barely ready. We didn't even know what caused any of it then. It was only due to that timeloop that anything at all was solved and saved, even if... there is much left to repair in the wake of it, at the same time. Let's keep it to that.