Posted on 11/28/2006 10:18:12 PM PST by george76
Environment Canada says such low temperatures unusual for this time of year.
The arctic deep freeze trapping Calgary is on track to break a 110-year-old weather record today, but the bitter cold is expected to ease in the coming days.
With a forecast low of -31C today, Calgary could break the -27C record set on this day in 1896.
But factoring in the wind chill, it will feel even colder to people who have to brave the elements, said Environment Canada meteorologist Ross Macdonald.
It's even been too frosty to ski, with Canada Olympic Park shutting the hill yesterday in the name of safety.
Spokesman Chris Dornan said, to his knowledge, it's the first year the weather has forced a November closure.
"It's normally in January or February,"
(Excerpt) Read more at calsun.canoe.ca ...
The open water at the N pole is the natural condition, although there have been periods of over-freeze occasionally.
You apparently live in an isolated warm spot; do you live in a city? Urban areas can buck the cooling trend due to concentrated energy use. All the data used to propagandize for Global Warming are urban. The Earth is definately cooling.
Oh, you mean like -23.8F?
Yeah.....about that. I lived in Prince Albert, SK for 18 months.....it got to about minus 40C once.....that's when I learned Farenheit and Centigrade merge at some point.
You must have been rich to live there. What years were you here? I live near the end of J st in Eureka and a few miles from CR...
You still haven't explained why plants and animals have moved their habitats north. That couldn't happen if the Earth was cooling. These plants and animals do not live in urban areas.
Satellite photos taken since 1978 show that the ice cap at the North Pole has grown thinner and the open water in the summer has grown larger each year.
How does that reconcile with your theory that the globe is cooling?
How do you explain the warmest years ever?
If the Earth was cooling - wouldn't the weather be getting colder - not warmer?
How do you reconcile your theory with factual evidence? Faith-based?
How do you explain that Alaska used to be desert? And, then cooled down? Farting of the dinosaurs?
Born and bred in South Carolina and married a Minnesota girl.
First winter there I broke my moustache and got my tongue stuck on an outdoor thermometer.
Ross MacDonald's mysteries are some of my favorite books.
Hmm, maybe climatologist Ross MacDonald's parents read them, too! :-)
Alaska is still desert. Wooly mammoths and saber-tooth tigers have gone underground, but musk ox are still walking around.
Global Warming is so '90s', last night on PBS I listened to a guy from the Rocky Mountain Institute who kept referring to "Global Weirding", i.e. human caused strange and unpredictable weather. So now it doesn't matter if it is hot or cold, wet or dry, as long as it can be considered unusual it is our fault. So who gets to decide if it is unusual? Why Al Gore and his friends of course.
That is because our warmest year was 1998. Ever since the temperature has been moderating. They have to get out in front of this before the people realize that the earth goes through cycles. If they can implement their draconian measure then they can take credit for saving us all from ourselves. If they miss the boat and the climate moderates on it owns they are screwed.
How much is that using a real thermometer marked in Fahrenheit. LOL Next thing you know they'll be talking in millibars and kilometers!
Low thirties in Walnut Creek this morning
October 76-mid FEb 77 I was at Great Lakes RTC/NTC. Temperature one night off the mercury outside the baracks was estimated far below 30 below. We had a wind chill of minus 100 degrees. Back home in Tennessee lakes were freezing over.
It's only 5 degrees here in Helena, MT today-hello Al? Could use a little global warming here today!!! Ha!
It was 11 when I took my son to school. It's 25 now. Snow is about 6" deep on the drive, and the sun is out. Beautiful day here in Salt Lake Valley. First snow of the season to stick to the roads and sort out the rookies. UHP responded to 82 accidents, 9 with injuries, and dozens of slide offs in the county on interstates between 4am and 9am. We have 4" more predicted overnight tonight, so we can collect more rookies tomorrow morning. We could use a little global warming.
Do they have a Rookie of the year award and what year did you win it...
guys from the Rocky Mountain Institute should all do us a favor and jump off a tall cliff.
That would reduce the global pollution and help the envirnoment.
The warmest years on record (we can't be sure about 'ever') were the 1950s. The 60s were similar, but a decline began in 68 or 69 that was hard to discern but by 76 it was measurable, but still not significant, although it was causing a drought in the northern hemisphere. By 1990 summer temps had lost their spikes, but otherwise remained constant. since 1990 even the everyday summer temps have declined in the entire world, and day to day fluctuations have moderated. A trend has begun in the last five years where high spikes have returned, but only in July, for a week or less, and returning to the near flat line moderate temps for the remainder of the summer.
Your 1978 satellite photo is quite irrelevant in view of the documented fact of active agriculture that was carried on in Greenland from the 15th through 19th centuries. 17th and 18th century mariners were quite convinced that there had to be a navigable waterway through the arctic, due to the vast areas of open water at that time, but none were successful at completing a voyage to the Pacific due to the dangers of the icebergs to their wooden hulls. The subsequent "little ice age" dashed their hopes soon thereafter,and left us with the vestigal polar ice cap whose demise you bemoan.
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