Andy and Brad

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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>Make that five straights days of snow with cold temperatures.

Sounds nasty! (Although I assume you understand the difference between instantaneous temperatures and average temperatures.)

Yes all week long our average temperatures here in Alberta have been well below freezing. Global Warming may be a reality in your part of the world. But it has yet to kick in here.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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It hasn't stopped snowing for two days now.

Make that five straights days of snow with cold temperatures.

I don't give a shit; I'm going skydiving tomorrow anyway.

[kallend 2,182]

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>Make that five straights days of snow with cold temperatures.

Sounds nasty! (Although I assume you understand the difference between instantaneous temperatures and average temperatures.)

Yes all week long our average temperatures here in Alberta have been well below freezing. Global Warming may be a reality in your part of the world. But it has yet to kick in here.

More extreme weather is a direct consequence of GW.

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[billvon 3,132]

>Global Warming may be a reality in your part of the world. But it has yet to kick in here.

Don't make the mistake of assuming that instantaneous temperatures are the same as average temperatures. Instantaneous temperatures make you cold for a bit; average temperatures change your environment.

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Rapid Warming Spreads Havoc in Canada's Forests
Tiny Beetles Destroying Pines

By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, March 1, 2006; Page A01

QUESNEL, B.C. -- Millions of acres of Canada's lush green forests are turning red in spasms of death. A voracious beetle, whose population has exploded with the warming climate, is killing more trees than wildfires or logging.

The mountain pine beetle has infested an area three times the size of Maryland, devastating swaths of lodgepole pines and reshaping the future of the forest and the communities in it.
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Global Warming Hits Canada's Arctic Lands

By David Ljunggren

20 April, 2006
Reuters

RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - Even in one of the remotest, coldest and most inhospitable parts of Canada's High Arctic, you cannot escape the signs of global warming.

Polar bears hang around on land longer than they used to, waiting for ice to freeze. The eternal night which blankets the region for three months is less dark, thanks to warmer air reflecting more sunlight from the south. Animal species that the local Inuit aboriginal population had never heard of are now appearing.

"Last year someone saw a mosquito," said a bemused Paul Attagootak, a hunter living in the hamlet of Resolute Bay some 2,100 miles northwest of Ottawa and 555 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Warming Thins Herd for Canada's Seal Hunt
Pups Drown in Melting Ice; Government Reduces Quotas

By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, April 4, 2007; Page A08

TORONTO, April 3 -- Hunters and animal rights activists face off on the ice this week as Canada's annual seal hunt begins, but a succession of unusually warm winters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence already has drowned thousands of the animals.

Canadian authorities reduced the quotas on the harp seal hunt by about 20 percent after overflights showed large numbers of seal pups were lost to thin and melting ice in the lower part of the gulf, off Prince Edward Island.
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[kallend 2,182]

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