21 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update”

  2. We turned the heat back on last week it was getting so cold. Last night I awoke from a dream involving freezing in the cold (I think while fighting zombies or similar!) and I usually only get those dreams in winter when I’m cold as heck in bed usually just before I wake up with a charlie horse.

  3. Who’ll be laughing, Brenda, when globa… climate change sees all of B.C.’s coast flooded out!!!

  4. It’s not uncommon to get frost in Ontario in May. As far as we in Ontario are concerned, Toronto is not part of our province.

  6. Calgary, on the other hand, has been known to get snow every month in the year. Hopefully not all in the same year.

  10. Lance, shouldn’t that be: At least they have their WynneMills to keep them warm?

  13. I agree. About 1958, when I was sixteen, we had to have smudge pots going in order to create air currents in the strawberry patch to mitigate frost damage on my Dad’s fruit farm near Queenston. Other farmers set up sprinkler systems, some drove their sprayers with the high capacity fans going.
    This occurred more than once between 1957 and 1964.

  14. Yeah, 1964…..
    Dad’s farm had some river flats with the valley running NW about there…..
    Part was corn……part was alfalfa…..
    Every month them flats got frosted…..every month….sun came up and seared the crops.
    I blame it on Pearson……..

  15. Dark Winter, provides evidence of the following:
    The end of global warming as the Pope preaches it.
    The beginning of a “solar hibernation,” a historic reduction in the energy output of the Sun.
    A long-term drop in the Earth’s temperatures.
    The start of the next climate change to decades of dangerously cold weather.
    The high probability of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
    I never advertise books, but this former Global Warming, Heretic Climate Denier,
    tells us we gonna freeze.

  16. Pretty normal for Ontario. I got married on May 19th in southern Ontario, and got snowed on. Our rule of thumb is not to put plants that wil be damaged by frost out until May24.

  17. Yup – much ado about nothing… Historically the last agricultural frost-free date in southern Ontario is May 15th. Central Ontario and the Near North can easily be one to three weeks later, and in S. Ont. late frosts are not rare. Even Niagara’s tender fruit belt gets frizzed over regularly. Urban garden centres start putting out tender plants for sale in late April which is always a crapshoot, but the new young urbanites have no clue. I prefer not to plant before about the first week of June, but by then the local plant store offering is pretty much picked over.

  19. Traditionally, it was that corn should be in by May 24…..but since the 60’s planting has been steadily pushed back into early May….
    That period of warming that ended about 98, let them get away with it….but recently I have noted that more and more early plantings had to be ripped up and replanted.
    Even during the warm spell, early corn seemed to tolerate frost…..the meristomatic(sp) [growing point] remains below ground until the 4th leaf stage…the plant can get frosted right off and still recover.
    Lately, low soil temps have been reducing stands….slower or no germination.
    It’s Canada…the Great White North….

  20. Look at the bright side. The wind turbines have a propensity for, uh.., lighting up, so perhaps some falling, burning debris could keep some nearby brush from global warming frost damage. ;8-)

  21. No Kate, Toronto doesn’t. The Liberals only forced the areas that voted Conservative to have windmills. Toronto liberal voters don’t get stuck with them as they impede the socialists view of lake Ontario.

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