Y2Kyoto: The Snows Of St. Patrick

Fools, it's cold with lots of snow, therefore it's called "climate change". Now if it had been unusually warm and dry, why then it would be "global warming". Get with the greenspeak.

9th warmest Feb on record, mate. Your eyes are deceiving you

Ah but a wee trifle!

Left overs from St. Nicolaas!

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

9th warmest February on record eh!

Where?

Guy looks lit like David Suzuki! LOL

We had snow in Vancouver last Sunday . . . quite a nice little blizzard last Sunday afternoon, right down to sea level. Really helped with the ambiance as I watched the Briar Final.

I looked and looked but couldn't see the Goreacle in town . . . despite the snow.

Climate Change in action I suppose. I feel so green today for some reason.

Maybe Dr. Fruit Fly is in town and I'm channeling his green side.

You guys just don't get it. Global warming is being reversed, slowly but surely, by the collective wills of His Holiness Barack Obama, Al Gore, David Suzuki and 100 million ululating O-bots.

9th warmest Feb on record?

In the last 10 years? When did you start keeping them?

Get with the program. In the 70s it was Global Cooling (google Paul Ehrlich). In the 90s it was Global Warming. It's Climate Change now. It literally cannot be disproved, and we're all doomed (so we might as well go get drunk, happy St. Paddy's day!)

As an Ottawa expert on snow shovelling, I detect something amiss in that photo. The roof shows only about 1-2 in. of snow. So how much snow did he have to scrape together to make that wee pile in the photo? Bah! BC wimps!

John:

Trust me...I live on a small cul-de-sac on the outskirts of Vancouver. We were forced to cancel Christmas dinner (14 guests and a 32 lb bird) because we had an unprecedented 3 feet of snow on our street. Because our municipality has limited snowplows (meaning virtually zero), our street did not qualify for plowing and we were marooned in our house for the better part of three weeks.

And two days ago, in MARCH, we had more snow.

Algore and Dr. Fruitfly can kiss my A$$...

Dr, Fruitfly knows very well the perils of snow in Vancouver. he lives just across the street from the Kitsalano boat docks. its about a 7million dollar house according to his tax assessment. not a bad return for a reporter and a guy with a ridiculous beard and known to hang around in underage kids treehouses.

It has been the snowiest winter I can remember on the west coast, but February was not as wintry as the first part of the winter, and the past week or so. The winter seems to have come with cold and snow at both ends, and a milder spell in the middle. The other odd feature has been the almost total absence of rain, during the colder parts of course it has been mostly snow, and in the milder parts, dry and sometimes quite sunny. I would doubt that we have had even a quarter of the normal rainfall in the past four months.

Despite the break in February (at least where I live, maybe not so much up Island), the net effect of the season has been to delay spring blooming by 2-3 weeks. Normally the cherry blossom is nearing its full opening display around here, this year, it has hardly begun to show at all.

Plenty of snow has returned to the north shore mountains too, the snow line at present is about 500 metres above sea level.

Global cooling is caused by global warming. This is a fact! Al Gore said so.

Dr Woof @ 8:18, just so ya know, practically everyone on Vancouver Island looks like Dr Fruitfly. Chances are though that the Islanders are the real McCoy.

That's Vancouver Island?????????

I can remember them closing Victoria down in 1991 for 2cm of snow.

What do they do for that amount? Just shoot everyone?

"That's Vancouver Island?????????"

Yes it is...
My folks live there and they actually had to buy a SNOWBLOWER this year!

Gore went on: “Today, 49 percent of America is in conditions of drought or near-drought”, and that “the odds of serious droughts increase when the average temperatures go up.”
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"North Dakota politicians held summits in Fargo and Grand Forks during the weekend to review the readiness of flood-protection measures after the National Weather Service declared Friday there is a 98 per cent chance the region is in store for major flooding.

The state was blasted by a mean winter storm last week in which 25 centimetres of snow fell. Plus, the ground was already saturated from near- record rainfall last autumn, raising the possibility that water levels this year could meet or exceed the amount of the 1997 Flood of the Century."

But that's weather, not climate.
/moonbat

[At least you had alot of turkey to eat, Bruce, to see you through.]

Gore went on: “Today, 49 percent of America is in conditions of drought or near-drought”, and that “the odds of serious droughts increase when the average temperatures go up.”

can't speak for the rtest of the countyry, but...
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Most of California is at half the normal amount of precipitation for the last 12 months (Jan 2008 - Jan 2009), as shown in the image below from the Western Regional Climate Center
Low snowpack may mean a third dry year for California
Statewide, the snow's water content is 61% of the average figure for this point in the season. Another La Niña may be developing, an expert says. Conservation is strongly urged.

In Kelowna, BC it has been the worst winter *by far* since we moved here 10 years ago. Honest to God we are almost a full month behind where we would normally be at this time of year.

Last year was second worst.

Because of this I have no choice but to consume more energy than I normally would to heat my house. But Gordon Campbell in his infinite wisdom has decided to add a carbon tax to the energy I buy, all in the name of Global Warming.

Can someone explain to me why I should vote for his party in the upcoming election? What am I missing?

"Can someone explain to me why I should vote for his party in the upcoming election? What am I missing?"
The Liberal Party is about a million times better than the NDP.

California drought?

"As of today (March 8th.09) all California Snowtel stations report normal snow depth and water content, as do all stations in Colorado where California gets much of their water from."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/08/update-on-the-chu-effect/

The earth has been warming up since the last ice age JLC. Pray tell what caused it then?? Huge dinosaur farts, which stayed around past their demise and joined forces with the woolly mammoth and buffalo farts???

Oh, I forgot. They weren't keeping records then so it doesn't matter right?

Don't even get me started! I just got back from 15 days in Hawaii. Of those, only 3 were decent. The rest were cold, windy, & rainy.

If you take Al Gore and mix him together with Barack Obama, what do you get? I don't know, but I think there's a good joke awaiting a punchline!

In the middle 60's, when I was going to university, the theory that was all the rage was the Ewing and Donn Theory of Ice Ages.
click here

Being naturally blabby and a show off, I went around the campus with, what I thought, was an air-tight theory of coming ice age. It was so long ago that I can't remember if I believed any of it. But being a campus rebel was a surefire way to get laid.

Is Global Warming theory true or false? It doesn't matter. The theory has become establishment orthodoxy. In a few years, the campus rebels will be going against it, hoping to get the goods.

And so it goes.

Still some snow - almost down to lake level - in Kelowna.

But look on the bright side; only 12,000 years ago the ice was two kilometers thick !!! On top of Ogopogo's frozen solid pool.

"If you take Al Gore and mix him together with Barack Obama, what do you get?"

A really big empty suit?

It has been a terrible winter out here on the Wet Coast. Snow and cold not seen since....well sometime in the distant past. I have officially become a wet coast weenie and dutifully complain and whine everytime the white crap starts to fly. Moving to the Island from northern Alberta was a revelation but I just wish global warming would hurry up and warm us up a little. Going to the beach when its 8c is very depressing.

Uli, you fool.

Don't tell me what the weather/climate is outside my window!
This has been the coldest winter in Victoria in the 6 years I've been here, by far. In fact, each winter has gotten cooler, this year was the topper. The coolest period was around Christmas, when we had a few nights in a row of -12C......bitter by Victoria standards (and yeah, I've spent a few winters wandering fencelines and seismic at a comfy -40C)

My heating bill shows the effect of things too. So, yeah, STF Uli, you know not of what you speak!

A fat president with bigger ears a bigger mouth and a smaller brain, if that's possible.

If you take Al Gore and mix him together with Barack Obama, what do you get?

manbambipig?

If you take Al Gore and mix him together with Barack Obama, what do you get?

A Kenyan weather station?

Well, I feel for you guys out West, but today, just north of Toronto, I went for a bike ride in bright sunshine just wearing a t-shirt and a light windbreaker (ok, and pants!), and after 20 minutes, I was sweating like a pig. (Of course, since I'm 4'4", 258 lbs, and have a bright pink complexion, I'm often mistaken for one.. but I digress.)

However, January and February were bitterly cold, so I wouldn't be surprised if this went down as one of the colder winters in Ontario in the last few years. Thank God it's only 3 days to spring!

John: "As an Ottawa expert on snow shovelling, I detect something amiss in that photo. The roof shows only about 1-2 in. of snow."

While it's true there isn't much snow on my roof at this time, the point is that we have had snow covered ground for more than three months, now.

I'd estimate our total snowfall for the winter at about 40" and at one point, I was quite worried about the weight of snow on the roof. At the same time, my tired old arms were having difficulty throwing the shovelled snow high enough to clear the previously shoveled snow.

And that my friends, is NOT what was considered a typical west coast winter. There does seem to be an unfortunate trend developing however - our winters are colder and longer and our summers are cooler and shorter - It's been quite noticeable over the last half dozen years.