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Post by Cranky on Aug 25, 2014 20:44:28 GMT -5
Are you people prepared!? We are going to hit the unprecidented temperature of 30 C. That's right, it's going to hit 30 C and Enviroment Canada has released a HEAT WARNING! Yessir....big red letters splashed across their website....
HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT
I mean how in God's name are we going to cope? I hear when it hits 30, anyone over 18 and under 17 is at risk.
I'm thankful every day that we have public servents who are looking out and warning us of potential life threatening enviromental catastrophies like 30 C in the middle of summer.
How are YOU going to cope with this life threatening temperture? More important, are we going to survive as a species?
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Post by CentreHice on Aug 25, 2014 21:44:31 GMT -5
Wind chill warnings this winter, I bet.
I understand a humidex warning for certain sectors of the population....but we're seeing the inevitable "much ado about nothing" in the 24-hour coverage of everything.
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Post by Cranky on Aug 26, 2014 0:06:17 GMT -5
OBVIOUSLY I'm blaming Harper for breaking the thermostat!
This is not just much to do about nothing, it's firmly planted into the asinine news cycle histrionics and "climate" hypochondria. Worse still, when the shrillness and "warning" of the irrelevant becomes ubiquitous, nobody pays attention anymore. The boy screaming about the big bad wolf....when all he see's is a wet wittle wabbit......nobody pays attention anymore.
I have a great idea...instead of the mindless inane warnings over nothing, how about re-educating people...something like.....don't stand in open ground and under trees when there is storm? How abut that? And then we can skip the sexier "oh my GOD!" victimhood headlines "family struck by lighting while standing under a tree" followed by the ubiquitous "caused by unusual weather". Wait what? There are storms in summer? And there is lightning in storms? And the temperature can "hit 30"? Who knew?
Mehhh....the maliciously mindless melodramatic meanderings of modern media for monies...will marshmallow our minds.
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Post by seventeen on Aug 26, 2014 4:36:46 GMT -5
I'm loving some of the things I'm seeing in Europe. Downtown sections of old towns where there are few if any traffic signs, cars drive through plazas dodging pedestrians, canal locks with no barriers to keep people away. It's a fine exhibit of Darwinism at work. We need more of that in Canada. And there should be week long prison sentences for news directors who make mountains of mole hills.
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Post by blny on Aug 26, 2014 7:36:03 GMT -5
Apparently, the almanac is claiming that winter 2014/15 for Canadians not living on the two coasts is going to be brutal again. Lots of cold and snow. I could go for a winter with no shoveling. The winter passed had far too much of that.
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Post by jkr on Aug 26, 2014 8:03:44 GMT -5
Apparently, the almanac is claiming that winter 2014/15 for Canadians not living on the two coasts is going to be brutal again. Lots of cold and snow. I could go for a winter with no shoveling. The winter passed had far too much of that. Last winter was one of the worst. I commute almost an hour each way (I live about an hour NW of Toronto)& for almost 5 months I couldn't take my eyes off the weather channel. The snow started in November and didn't stop until April. Found it extremely stressful. Moving is out of the question so I'm actually considering leaving my job so I don't have to go through it again. I would take a lower paying job in order to avoid the commuting - it's just too much. BTW - what's the track record of that almanac anyway. |
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Post by CentreHice on Aug 26, 2014 8:40:08 GMT -5
And where was the Canadian contingent of "global warmers" during that marathon of a winter? Since I didn't hear much from them, I presume they went to Florida.
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Post by blny on Aug 26, 2014 9:20:09 GMT -5
Apparently, the almanac is claiming that winter 2014/15 for Canadians not living on the two coasts is going to be brutal again. Lots of cold and snow. I could go for a winter with no shoveling. The winter passed had far too much of that. Last winter was one of the worst. I commute almost an hour each way (I live about an hour NW of Toronto)& for almost 5 months I couldn't take my eyes off the weather channel. The snow started in November and didn't stop until April. Found it extremely stressful. Moving is out of the question so I'm actually considering leaving my job so I don't have to go through it again. I would take a lower paying job in order to avoid the commuting - it's just too much. BTW - what's the track record of that almanac anyway. I have no idea how they forecast, but it's usually pretty accurate iirc. Was a rough winter here. On the coast, storms will start as snow and usually turn to rain. Didn't happen once. No 'white Juan's' but lots of 20-30cm dumps. Wednesday also seemed to be the day we got hit the hardest too. Offices actually shut down a couple of times. |
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Post by blny on Aug 26, 2014 9:22:25 GMT -5
And where was the Canadian contingent of "global warmers" during that marathon of a winter? Since I didn't hear much from them, I presume they went to Florida. A touchy subject to say the least. Overall, the globe is getting warmer. However, it could be as much a cyclical thing as anything else. I will say this, we don't get white Christmas' on the coast anymore. |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Aug 26, 2014 13:29:54 GMT -5
It will have to cool down considerably for it to hit 30c in Palm Springs.
I wish Harper would call out Obama on this global warming crap.
1. The US has been spewing pollution into the Great lakes for years while Canada's shoreline has been relatively pristine.
2. Factories in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland have been polluting the air for years while Canada has been much cleaner.
3. How can Harper go to the oil sends when it's -50 degrees and tell the workers they will lose their jobs because of Canada's concern about global warming?
4. Global warming could add weeks to the growing season in Saskatchewan and Manitoba where there is no shortage of water and good soil. Alberta could overtake Iowa in farming productivity.
5. More degree days helps farmers in Ontario and Quebec plant crops that we currently have to import.
6. Very little of Canada's coastlines are affected by a 6 inch rise in sea level.
7. Canada is not affected by natural disasters, tornados and hurricanes the way the US is. A rise in temperature helps Canada.
8. There is a natural cycle of global warming and cooling. Today a 3 inch snowfall in New York city is a disaster. 15,000 years ago New York was covered by ice 1000 feet thick. It didn't melt because of Neanderthals riding around in their gas guzzling SUV's.
It gets warm in Summer, it gets cold in winter, it rains, it snows, volcanos erupt, things change and man has very little control over climate and sunspots.
Build the XL pipeline and flush Obama through it. Obama demands Europe apply consequences to Russia but he allows Exxon to drill with Statoil and depends on Russia for Space Shuttles.
Obama, the worst US president ever!
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Post by Cranky on Aug 27, 2014 16:39:29 GMT -5
Despite the apocolyptic heat warnings, I, the brave Spartan that I am, ventured out into the heat abyss. Well, my fellow survivors, I need to amend my non believing ways. Right before my eyes, I saw...little children sizzling....woman running naked.....man swallowed by pools of road tar....woman running naked.....cars spoteniously combusting...woman running naked......oh the inhumanity of it all!
I, like most of humanity survived the earth scorching 30 C.....and all I can say......
THANK GOD FOR FIREPROOF THONGS!!!
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Post by Cranky on Sept 5, 2014 13:44:16 GMT -5
Another "Heat Alert" today. Yup, it's now 30 degrees and the sky is falling!
I guess in Greece they they should post "Cold Alerts" when the temperature goes under 30?
This is either Weather Canada going stupid for the sky falling warmist agenda or government employees version of a nanny state, either way, it's stupid. This fits EXACTLY the fable of the little boy crying wolf. When they scream "heat alert" for normal temperatures, when it gets seriously hot and actual danger, NOBODY is going to be paying attention.
Did I mention the word stupid?
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Post by franko on Sept 5, 2014 13:48:16 GMT -5
86. Eighty-Six. Eighty-Six freakin' degrees!
nope, no matter how I say it, that's warm, not hot.
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Post by Cranky on Sept 6, 2014 3:50:48 GMT -5
BTW....The reason I got my thong tied up in knots over this is that I use huge hot presses at work. We close down shifts if it gets too hot. When I saw the "heat alert" on my tablet, I thought we were in for 37-38 degree weather.....and started to plan production shutdown.....only to see it was another routine 30 C summer day.
The second thing that got me even more wound up was to hear employees babble about "heat alert" and will they get paid for going home early. In their brilliant minds, they want to push the warnings into automatic paid days off. *unemployment alert*
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Post by Polarice on Sept 8, 2014 11:41:52 GMT -5
Snowing in Edmonton today!!
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