Not a problem. Chile can make up the shortage with Bolivian natural gas. Ooops, I forgot. The industry has been nationalized, so production should plummet. Ditto the mineral sector. But, there's going to be a lot more cocaine produced, so consumers may get a price break there. It all evens out.

Windmills are so 2006; wind belts and kite gens are where it's at:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html?series=37

http://www.kitegen.com/pages/technology.html

Africa is suffering a big chill as well.When have Africa and South America been of any concern the the elitist Northern crowd, except for the gated vacation spots? (gated so they really can't see how the other half lives). As far as Gore is concerned the Southern hemisphere is not part of the "Globe".
Oh but wait...the AIDS fund raising will clear their conscience...
Wonder how much AIDS money is paying Mugabe's heating bill?

ditto Australia . . .

but who cares about the southern hemisphere. The rich, guilt ridden liberals that soak up the Goreacles snake oil pitch live in Euro land, Hollywood & Toronto.

"Windmills, amigos. You need windmills!"

Or maybe we can export our climate-doom lay-prophets to blow hot air into the local southern weather patterns ;-)

I'm looking at my calendar and thinking...isn't it Southern Hemisphere SPRING? Where were these articles in June and July and August when they were actually having winer down there?

Oh, it's it's about the impact onthe readers. You know, the ones who in J,J and A were sweltering.

pick up a globe so you can get the mercator projection out of your head. you can hold it so that there is no land visible, just the Pacific Ocean. if I remember some elementary geology, 90% of all the land is in the northern hemisphere.That is where more than 90% of all temperature readings are taken ,given that for the most part the 10% of the land in the southern hemisphere is also poorer than average compared to the north.

therefore , the north which may be getting slightly warmer will always be over represented compared to the south which is likely getting slightly cooler.

but since the icecaps on the southern hemisphere of Mars have also been melting for about 100 years, the cycle would seem more solar than anthropic.

Did anyone pick up on the article about La nina and the Pacific southern oscilation? It caught my attension. It seems it's cycle is about 30 years, going between a preponderance of le ninos and la ninas. between hot and dry and cool aqnd wet. What caught my attention though was the information regarding the atlantic southern oscilation. This one has a cycle of around 70 years. When two things cycle at different rates they some times add together and some times subtract from each other.

From the article it would appear that the two cycles are both heading into their cooler wetter phase.

What does this mean for the next decade of so? I don't know but I am looking to buy several cords of wood for my emergency back up plan.

PS The supply of oil in the industrialized countries is below the five year average for this time of year, and the US is predicting a 1.3 degree cooler average temp for this year than last. I am thinking of investing in wool.

man made global warming is a win-win for left wing nuts because it's to blame for any climate that varies from the norm and only draconian emissions laws and a massive carbon tax will ever fix their so called climate crisis

News circa 2020:

Newsweek's 1970's global cooling article is plagarized by some failed presidential candidate who goes on to win the nobel peace price for warning the world of the devastating effects of the coming ice age.

Oh goody, the Gorezuki team can go and tell South Americans that they will soon be getting even colder because the northern hemisphere needs to cool off.

That is if they still have the nerve to, after having to go to Greenland to tell them that they will not be able to grow any more vegetables after the Goreuzki team adjusts the planets thermostat downward.

Yessirreee, there is nothing quite like being wrong at the top of your voice in the very public global village square.

They can do what the US is doing, stocking up on cheap LNG, liquifying and storing. Canadian gas is going to have a tough winter.

test, ignore

heheh.... no worry Poppa Hugo will sell them plenty o' oil............

...on a side note, anyone read that crude oil is suppose to hit $100/barrel this winter?

Sheesh.

Regarding $88/bbl oil, why do you suppose gasoline prices in Alberta are still less than a dollar per litre?

It wouldn't be because 'big oil' doesn't want to raise Alberta hackles when there is a royalty review going on, would it?

Why it was just this summer when 10 cent/litre gas price increases occurred regularly on Thursday or Friday of coming long weekends.

10 cents/litre for gas is equal to a $8/bbl increase in the price of oil and that never happened.

So it really looks like there is a lot of wiggle room for big oil to be paying more royalties.

Alaska pays a oil and gas dividend every year to its citizens and still has a $37 billion 'trust fund'.

Simple. Oil is priced in US dollars. The lofty Kanuck Buck buys more USD (and hence, oil) than it used to.

Assuming everything else remaind constant, if we still had a 0.63 cent Chretien/Kinsella peso ----

A $1.00 per litre these days, with a buck for buck, would translate into roughly $1.57 a litre in the 'kicking ass' days.

Alaska runs an 8 billion dollar deficit, but doesnt dare cut the entitlements.

Let the eco-wackos go down there and let them get eaten alive by the carniverous quetzals nice looking birds with taste for raw meat SQUAWK SQUAWK