Will all this “Green Christmas” weather make Canadians think more about climate change?

Out here on the Left Coast . . . . the local mountains have had their best ski season in over 25 years last year, and this year is looking to be a repeat. Using your logic, we must be heading into an Ice Age!
Actually, in April, 1975 that is precisly what Newsweek, The NY Times and others were telling us. And they didn’t even have “computer models”.
I do know some facts though . . . 1000 years ago my ancestors were living and farming in Greenland.
A 16th century Portugese exporer drew a may of Antartica which proved to be amazinly accurate when the continent was mapped by sonar back in the 1970’s.
3/5s of the ice in the world is on water, if it melts it has as much chance of raising sea levels as your glass of coke with 6 ice cubes running over the edge of the glass.

Global Warming? New Ice Age? Better to adapt than di

http://jewishworldreview.com/1206/medicine.men122206.php3

Here’s some more interesting news:

* Bears have stopped hibernating in northern Spain.

* The osprey found in the lochs and glens of the Scottish Highlands in the summer months, usually migrate to west Africa to avoid the freeze. This winter, osprey have been spotted in Suffolk and Devon. Swallows, which also normally migrate to Africa for the winter have been also seen across England this winter.

* The red admiral butterfly, below, which hibernates in winter, has been spotted in gardens this month, as has the common darter dragonfly, usually seen between mid-June and October, which has been seen in Cheshire, Norfolk and Hampshire.

* The smew, a diving duck, flies west to the UK for winter from Russia and Scandinavia. This year, though, they have been mainly absent from the lakes and reservoirs between The Wash and the Severn.

* Evergreen ivy and ox-eye daisies are still blooming and some oak trees, which are usually bare by November, were still in leaf on Christmas Day last year.

* The buff-tailed bumblebee is usually first seen in spring. Worker bees die out by the first frost, while fertilised queen bees survive underground between March and September. This December, bees have been seen in Nottingham and York.

* Primroses and daffodils are already flowering at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, in Carmarthenshire. ‘Early Sensation’ daffodils usually flower from January until February. Horticulturalists put it down to the warm weather.

* Scientists in the Netherlands reported more than 240 wild plants flowering in the first 15 days of December, along with more than 200 cultivated species. Examples included cow parsley and sweet violets. Just two per cent of these plants normally flower in winter, while 27 per cent end their main flowering period in autumn and 56 per cent before October.

And Ex-NDIP,

You’re breed is becoming increasingly rare. It’s so sad to see you go.

EX-NDIP:

The Antarctica ice sheet is 35 million years old.

Global warming does not mean less snow or warmer climate. Actually, at higher altitudes you can get more snow as the air warms because it is able to carry more moisture. Some glaciers are actually growing due to the increased precipitation… they are, however, melting faste than before. Soon enough, the melting overtakes the rate of precipitation.

Re Greenland: The whole world does not turn based upon historical local climate variations in Greenland. The Greenland glaciers back then were very much present.

The ice we are most worried about are the glaciers, which are on land.

I suggest you not rely on the mass media for accurate science. In the 1970s there was a theory which stated that tiny particulates in the air were causing global dimming, which would cool the earth. Another perspective at the time stated that increased CO2 in the atmosphere would cause a creenhouse effect which would counteract the dimming and actually increase temperatures. There was a flurry of _scientific_ papers from several angles.

Guess who was right?

I would be worried about the environment, but having to deal with annoying amounts of Edmonton snowfall, I wouldn’t mind if every aerosol can on the planet were let free.

As for Moscow, after last winter they aren’t going to complain about the weather at all. Or have you global warming fanatics already forgotten that January was met with a massive cold snap in Russia’s normally mild south-central territories? Or the similar cold snap in Ukraine less than a month later? Or perhaps the record cold snap in Europe a month earlier?