eyeball Posted January 24, 2011 Report Posted January 24, 2011 Record colds still happen, but (from an article I posted here) they were happening at 1/2 the rate of records highs in N. America. Not sure why jbg insists on not getting it. It's probably a matter of choice, he simply doesn't want to. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
wyly Posted January 24, 2011 Report Posted January 24, 2011 Snow isn't caused by it being very cold, it being to cold will actually prevent snow. The extreme amount of snow was caused be humidity, and what caused that humidity? Increased temperature. correct when it's truly cold it doesn't snow arctic air is dry and holds little or no moisture the precipitation/snow comes from warmer regions...part of the problem is many people in southern climes have no idea what cold is "eeew it's -12, it's so cold" .. that's a mild day on the prairies, a heat wave in January...the bulk of our snowfall where I live comes in the fall and even more in the spring when the temps are warmer, mid winter when temps dip down to -30, -40 and lower it snows very little, if at all...what's embarrassing is when there's canadians who should understand our weather don't grasp that... Quote “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”- John Stuart Mill
Guest TrueMetis Posted January 24, 2011 Report Posted January 24, 2011 correct when it's truly cold it doesn't snow arctic air is dry and holds little or no moisture the precipitation/snow comes from warmer regions...part of the problem is many people in southern climes have no idea what cold is "eeew it's -12, it's so cold" .. that's a mild day on the prairies, a heat wave in January...the bulk of our snowfall where I live comes in the fall and even more in the spring when the temps are warmer, mid winter when temps dip down to -30, -40 and lower it snows very little, if at all...what's embarrassing is when there's canadians who should understand our weather don't grasp that... I would love it if it got that cold where I live, never has though. (At least to my knowledge, damn Pacific ocean ) Quote
wyly Posted January 24, 2011 Report Posted January 24, 2011 I would love it if it got that cold where I live, never has though. (At least to my knowledge, damn Pacific ocean ) damn pacific ocean! ...that's what I think every time we get a pile of snow dumped on us...and -30 and -40 still happens but it's becoming more and more infrequent on the flatlands... Quote “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”- John Stuart Mill
bloodyminded Posted January 25, 2011 Report Posted January 25, 2011 I would love it if it got that cold where I live, never has though. (At least to my knowledge, damn Pacific ocean ) Here in south-central NB, it is -23...-31 with the wind chill. If you want it, please take it, m'man! Me no like. (Oh, damn, I shouldn't have pointed out that it's seasonally cold here...speaking of shark chum! Fredericton is cold, so climate change is a "fraud.") Quote As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. --Josh Billings
waldo Posted January 25, 2011 Report Posted January 25, 2011 c'mon... make this a no-feed chum zone! Please, don't feed the denialist... chum! meanwhile, in the truth to power zone: Cold comfort: Canada's record-smashing mildness ..... animated graphic of 30 day anomaly temperatures (Sept 02, 2010 - Jan 15, 2011) What really jumps out, though, is a blob of green, yellow, orange, and red covering a major swath of northern and eastern Canada. The largest anomalies here exceed 21°C (37.8°F) above average, which are very large values to be sustained for an entire month. Quote
bloodyminded Posted January 25, 2011 Report Posted January 25, 2011 c'mon... make this a no-feed chum zone! Please, don't feed the denialist... chum! That's pretty difficult, when everything is food for the scavengers. Quote As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. --Josh Billings
Wild Bill Posted February 9, 2011 Report Posted February 9, 2011 I was going to file this one under "alarmist crap" and just forget about it but I thought I'd post the link here, for others more informed than I am to perhaps give a better appraisal: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february042011/globaltemp.php "(CHICAGO) - NASA has been warning about it.scientific papers have been written about it.geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples. Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather. Forget about global warming.man-made or natural.what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field. When the field shifts, when it fluctuates, when it goes into flux and begins to become unstable anything can happen. And what normally happens is that all hell breaks loose. Magnetic polar shifts have occurred many times in Earth's history. It's happening again now to every planet in the solar system including Earth. The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting." I suspect this guy is talking to his toaster but perhaps someone has some enlightenment to offer. Quote "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw "There is no point in being difficult when, with a little extra effort, you can be completely impossible."
wyly Posted February 9, 2011 Report Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) I was going to file this one under "alarmist crap" and just forget about it but I thought I'd post the link here, for others more informed than I am to perhaps give a better appraisal: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february042011/globaltemp.php "(CHICAGO) - NASA has been warning about it.scientific papers have been written about it.geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples. Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather. Forget about global warming.man-made or natural.what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field. When the field shifts, when it fluctuates, when it goes into flux and begins to become unstable anything can happen. And what normally happens is that all hell breaks loose. Magnetic polar shifts have occurred many times in Earth's history. It's happening again now to every planet in the solar system including Earth. The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting." I suspect this guy is talking to his toaster but perhaps someone has some enlightenment to offer. I'd be more worried if it goes down completely...it does protect us from harmful solar radiation if I'm not mistaken...it has moved a fair bit lately but it could just as easily slow down or reverse it's movement...I don't think it's well understood why it behaves as it does... affect our weather??? I don't see how... Edited February 9, 2011 by wyly Quote “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”- John Stuart Mill
jbg Posted February 9, 2011 Report Posted February 9, 2011 I suspect this guy is talking to his toaster but perhaps someone has some enlightenment to offer. Maybe he'll join two or three of our posters in talking to toasters. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
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