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Frostbite amputations hit 10-year high in Edmonton last winter, new data show (global warming... only 9 years left)
CBC news ^ | Jan 11, 2023 | Taylor Lambert

Posted on 01/18/2023 2:41:18 AM PST by jerod

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Interesting chart showing the yearly increase in frostbite cases... But believe them when they tell you (every year) that this year is the 'hottest' year on record.
1 posted on 01/18/2023 2:41:18 AM PST by jerod
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To: jerod

I will tell you that it was very cold in Edmonton during December. My mother’s car battery died and had to be replaced. I had to boost mine, which is the first time ever because I buy the biggest batteries that will fit in my vehicle.

But the weather is good now, straight until March.
We are now receiving 53 more minutes of sunshine than December 21st.


2 posted on 01/18/2023 2:46:16 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: jerod

It’s mostly homeless. We open transit stations and the LRT stations during times like this and the Shaw Convention centre, which is huge. Police and security is provided for their safety, but most that don’t go would rather do their drugs.


3 posted on 01/18/2023 2:48:56 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: jerod

And kids will never again know what snow is. That was supposed to happen around 2015, if I remember correctly. Meanwhile, here in Colorado we’ve been buried in global warming pretty much all winter, and the number of avalanches is at an all-time high.


4 posted on 01/18/2023 3:11:31 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: jerod

I got frostbite bad on my hands years ago and like a fool I got into a car and put my hands near the heater and holy cripes, talk about pain! It felt like my hands were getting smashed up by a sledge hammer. I think I had some tissue damage because they never looked the same again, just too wrecked looking.


5 posted on 01/18/2023 5:01:36 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: jerod

I think it is Covid Vaccines, these Vaccines damage capillaries causing exposure because the body can’t combat the cold.

Why do I say this? It happened to me.


6 posted on 01/18/2023 5:16:26 AM PST by dila813
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It is even painful under relatively cold water.


7 posted on 01/18/2023 5:21:58 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: jerod

One thing I’ve noticed around me is how many people do not bundle up to go outside. They think they just are going a short distance and they don’t wear hats and gloves. Or sometimes drive without wearing a coat on the assumption that they will not be outside for more than a few minutes. But if something goes wrong and it takes longer than they expect, or it gets much colder than expected, they end up with frost bite.


8 posted on 01/18/2023 6:12:59 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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I have that stuff with me in the car in abag at all times. I may not wear it, but it is with me.


9 posted on 01/18/2023 6:34:11 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: jerod

In 2008, Al Gore and the Sierra Club said that by 2014 the arctic might be permanently free of ice. Given the claimed trends, this possibility would be a certainly by 2023. Still waiting. I bet they raised a lot of money and pushed a lot of votes with their scare mongering. It’s past time that Republicans call BS on junk AGW/CC science.


10 posted on 01/18/2023 6:39:52 AM PST by ChessExpert (I would rather eat GMO than be a GMO.)
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A headline correction is urgently needed. We have only 7.7178 years left. /sarc/

On October 8, 2018, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the “Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 deg. C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways.”


11 posted on 01/18/2023 7:47:22 AM PST by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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To: Jonty30

that is standard down here in minnesota, always have a OH Crap bag in the car


12 posted on 01/18/2023 11:43:37 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Ugh. These guys who get frostbite to the point of gangrene, I wonder if they go through the same agony or by that point the nerves are too destroyed.


13 posted on 01/19/2023 5:34:25 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Any part that goes gangrene. They cant save it.


14 posted on 01/19/2023 5:40:29 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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