67 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Narrow Reprieve From Malaria”

  1. Kate,
    I don’t know if you are interested in this, but I still keep track of the winter road in the NWT and this year is one of the earliest openings ever! This follows from last year when we had one of the latest closings ever! You can get the full reports here: http://jvtcwinterroad.ca/
    In 2006 we had the lastest opening ever and the earliest closing ever. Needless to say the Global Warmers were all over that story. Haven’t heard for them yet this year, though…

  2. Yep. That’s cold, all right.
    Nasty windchill, too. With that windchill, that’s how you know what it’s like near the North Pole without the wind.
    Been away too long to remember what it was like to live in such a frigid, somewhat arctic-like climate as is Sask in the winter.
    Right now, here, it’s just…
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CANB0088
    So I guess I can’t complain, though it’s been an unusually cold, snowy winter, certainly compared to how it was in the Nineties.
    Climate change? Oh, ok… I see the climate changing back to being as cold as it used to be. Global warming? What are its trumpeters, nuts, or just into it to make money on the scare scam?

  3. I meant the climate is cold again, like in the Nineties. It’s been warm and hardly snowy at all so far in the 2000s, excepting this winter.
    That’s my own local climate report, then…

  4. In Winnipeg, the windchill is minus 42. When it’s cold like this, it must suck to be a global warming believer.

  5. I think Delisle should lobby for the climate change conferance next year. much better than Bali where the climate(weather) is one of the most stable on the “barely saved” planet.
    The environmentalists will actually have a use for dressing in a squirrel costume for their protest.

  6. -43 in Ft Mac , time for Izzy Money Borat Dion to visit instead of trying to heat up a crisis over not sending prisoners to an Afghan Jail.

  7. Yeah, -35 degrees is cold, can malaria be far behind?
    The venerable Sask MP from Wascana, Ralphy Wha’shisname, called it “bone-snapping when he was interviewed on an Ottawa Morning radio show.
    The interview degenerated from there, it was all about Afghan “detainees”, the poor harmless fellas.

  8. I do not hear the Global Warmers turning off their polluting/carbon emitting furnaces. I do not see then burning their drivers licenses, I do not hear them praising this cold weather, I do not see them walking to work. The list could go on and on.
    Funny when the weather is cold you never hear them talk about Global Warming. I wonder how the rest of Canada would feel if Alberta cut off its gas to them – particularly Ontario where most of the Global Warming fanatics live and have no grasp of reality. I love your comment trent … so true. With this cold week, it should bring down the yearly average of temp change. Forget about Global Warming, worry about the next ice age.
    The good news is that if this keeps up it will help with destroying the pine beetle.

  9. My in-laws in Newfoundland are reporting a “good old-fashioned Winter”. Late last week it was -35 and -47 with the wind chill. A-a-a-a-nd six feet of snow already on the ground.
    Gotta stop talking about it or I’ll be obsessed with moving home, working for 50% of current salary and buying a snow machine. 🙂

  10. A good day to shut off the gas valves on the houses of those moronic theives called environmentalists.

  11. -44C, just outside Edmonton now. Nanook has the day off school-no busses running. I’ll give Mrs. Eskimo a ride to work this morning. The sled dogs love this weather.
    Here’s a cartoon caption for you….
    STOP, STOP, we’ve run out of carbon credits!

  13. Just to let you know that Swift Current has not yet experienced that GW thing. -38 and -49 with WC. Sittin here waiting……sure is taking its own sweet time.

  16. Just for your information Kate, it’s not cold that eradicates malaria, it’s the public health and insect control procedures that our intelligent, scientific, and pragmatic society has developed to deal with malaria.
    Fricken’ cold in Winnipeg this morning, too, btw.

  19. Dat’s not fair.
    Sask gets a heat wave.
    From 66 CFR.
    Ft Chip: -45.2
    Coronation: -41.9
    Edson: -43.0
    Peace River: -44
    Claresholm: -40.0
    Edm centre: -35
    Edm International: -44
    From my window thermometer, east of Edm – -44
    Jokes abound on radio, the forecast HIGH for today is -29.
    So folks, who wants to tell us exactly where this cold air is coming from, if the globe is warming all over?
    Gore? Suzuki?
    Missing in action?

  23. Kind of reminds me when I was in the first grade in Manitoba, walking to school from Dufresne to
    St.Anne, three and a half miles!! (no hills) Only drifts across the Dawson road.
    It’s been relatively cold here in southern Ontario all fall and winter, except for a mild spell in early January for a week.
    Just at the freezing mark this morning.
    – 40 in both C and Farenheit, right?
    Crack out the homebrew jugs at Deslisle community centre, Kate!
    That’s what they did in minus forty degree weather in Dufresne, Manitoba.

  24. News Alert
    Canadian Premiers Channeling Al Gore !!
    The annual meeting of Canadian Premiers has been interrupted by severe winter conditions and a blizzard that has shut down the city of Vancouver.
    Gore does it again.
    Update: Vancouver mayor refuses to “go Toronto” and refutes rumours he is requesting the Army be called out to shovel snow.

  25. I sort of liked the “feels like -49” bit. Does -35 really feel different from -49? Thanks to the two decades plus that I spent in or near Chicago, I’ve seen plenty of below-zero weather, and it pretty much all felt the same.

  27. “Rare Snows and Cold in Saudi Arabia Ignored by US Media”
    By Noel Sheppard, January 13, 2008 newsbusters.org
    The selective coverage of international weather events by global warming obsessed media continued this weekend as near-record low temperatures in Saudi Arabia mixed with snow went totally ignored by American press outlets.

  28. Expert predictions of comming catastrophies are usually 20 years behind the times. We are finally getting the global cooling/new ice age, that was the rage in the 80s.
    Please, gore/suzuki, send those co2 emmissions to Southern Alberta to warm the climate.

  29. This was all explained in the documentary/movie, “The Day After Tomorrow”, which I just watched two days ago.
    According to the eminent scientist, Dennis Quaid, who in this outing used all two of his facial expressions, the melting polar icecap chills the Atlantic by 13 degrees, and a new ice age begins, rather quickly, actually. Within about two weeks, the entire Northern hemisphere is under fifty feet of snow.
    Okay, it’s supposed to be entertainment, BUT, when I mentioned the movie to my high school age son, he said,”oh yeah, we watched that movie in SCIENCE class a few weeks ago”!!!! Ahhhhhh!

  31. They renamed Global Warming into Climate Change for just such a conundrum.
    Now, when the weather is different than yesterday or last week, it’s “Climate Change”
    If it’s +32 it’s climate change
    If it’s -32 it’s climate change
    If it’s +6 and partly cloudy, it’s climate change.
    In fact, no matter what the fact on the ground may be, it’s climate change – even when the climate doesn’t change.
    As an advertisement [read: propaganda] for the environutters, it’s perfect. They never have to worry themselves with pesky truths like “reality” and stuff.

  32. There is overwhelming evidence that proves AGW is a fraud of gigantic proportions all one has to do is stand outside for 2 minutes to feel the fraud.
    Yet our own Conservative government has bought into it hook line and sinker and is about to implement devastating CO2 caps on oil producers.
    This stuff is going to crush our economies close to what the NEP did.
    I for one will not vote for any party buys into this garbage including the Conservatives.

  33. But I do love how the media are describing cold weather on the Canadian prairies in January as ‘sudden’.

  35. “Nature, too, proved mercurial. The weather that summer was unusually hot and dry, with temperatures in the 30’s right through August. So many people died of heatstroke that newspapers stopped recording the victims’ names.” No, this wasn’t the heatwave of 2003 in the UK (I was there for that), it was the heatwave of 1911. This is an excerpt from a book review in the Weekend Post (Jan. 26), The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson. Imagine, they had climate change in 1911 without SUV’s and without tar sands and a whole lot of other stuff.

  36. -35 in Jasper Alberta -42 with WC
    Yesterday was -42 and -48 with WC
    The enviro-nuts here actually passed an anti-idleing by-law. This morning I noticed no one was observing that stupid by-law.

  37. Well, I guess I shouldn’t bellyache too much here in White Rock where it’s “only” -1 degrees C with a windchill of -6 C and 3.5 inches of fresh snow. Of course, traffic is screwed up royally.
    I think Al Gore and David Suzuki should be invited to skinny dip in Semiahmoo Bay on days like this.
    Mike

  38. For SV Jim. Having lived in the Yukon all my life I can tell you that there is an extreme difference between -35 and -49. I can still work outside at -35. At -49 things just break. Lucky today it’s a balmy -39.4 that made it only -19 in the shop after running the Herman Nelson for 1.5 hours. Thats a real -39 by the way not a wind chill thing.
    BTW Kate, I thought that the weather wasn’t news!

  39. Well, when it hits -40 you won’t need to specify C or F – that’s where the two scales meet.
    A little thermal trivia I picked up in ND…

  42. It’s a balmy +2C here in Algonquin Park. We haven’t had that much cold this winter unlike you guys out West. As I work outdoors I can’t complain.
    I just spoke with my daughter in Toronto, it’s +10 there, and she went to work in her heels.
    Even if global warming were real, we’re talking about one degree warmer, that won’t make winter go away! Other effects like El Nino explain the temperature patterns better.

  43. We are experiencing a little dump of snow here on Vancouver Island, but it is about plus 4C at the moment, The snow turns all the usual green into a lovely white green contrast that brightens up the day.
    I invite all you prairie folks to sell the farm and get your asses out here. The weather’s fine.

  44. When in doubt — Kate’s default position is sarcasm.
    The IPCC & Gore Nut-Cases have been ranting that so-called MMGW will be a calamity because human Malaria cases will increase.
    What is so ironic here, is that the Fear-Mongers are wrong in a few ways.
    Malaria is not just a warm climate disease.
    A severe outbreak occured in Siberia some time ago.
    The earth is likely just experiencing another natural climate cycle. (It was warmer than this a thousand years ago)
    So, as Kate’s sarcasm correctly points out — if the UN thinks, wrongly, that colder is better and it will save us from Malaria — MINUS FRIGGIN THIRTY FIVE CELCIUS OUT TO DO IT !!
    It is easy to see how one might miss all that if one gets their information only from the papers and TV.
    Funny, how Mark Twain wrote about this a long time ago;
    ‘If you do not read the Newspapers, you will be uninformed. Read them, and you will be misinformed.’
    More true today because the Media has been forced into the Tabloid segment.

  45. The Toronto Gal, in heels, is in for a rude awakening;
    Enviro Canada: Wind warning with blowing snow in effect for Toronto later today.

  47. Premier Campbell refuses to tell Alberta that energy production must stop.
    Is Gordo afraid to also tell BCers that they will have cold houses and empty gas tanks ?? Start walking !

  48. A balmy -30C here in Cowtown.(-42C with wind chill). Still a bit warmer than yesterday. Great weather for a climate change protest maybe?

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