"Nobody can point with any authority to global warming as the culprit. It does not move from normal weather to abnormal weather in a straight line. One bad year does not climate change make. But there is a disturbing trend here that meshes with predictions from climatologists who fear we're headed into more and more climate trouble--2008 was a particularly bad year for hail damage in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. If this is indeed evidence of climate change, farmers must feel as if they're the canary in the mine shaft."
"…assuming they are victims of global warming, our farmers might deserve compensation from those that have made their lives miserable. That would be the oilsands plants and the electricity companies that burn coal. In short, it would be all of us. We collectively, through our lifestyle and fossil-fuel economy, have contributed to the predicament of climate change."
Huh. Indeed.
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I like the implication that the industries that produced the CO2 and did nothing to curb it may be sued by those who suffer due to climate change.
The oil industry knows this and that's the reason they fund faux science and I am sure slipped the conservatives a fair chunk of change to obfuscate and not implement any environmental plan.
Its the same approach that big tobacco took. They knew you can't test on people so there could never be any conclusive results that show a link just a correlation.
Glo-Bull Warming is utter BS, why has it been cooling for the last eleven years?
Why did the head of the EPA muzzle a report that is contrary to Al Gores lies?
Why won't Al Gore or Jim Hansen debate this theory, and that is all it is, it's an unproven theory, plus it is outright fraud.
The sheeple sure lap it up though, any kind of doomsday scenario will suffice.
Do you want to buy a bridge, cheap?
I'll sell you some useless carbon offsets for big bucks if that makes you feel better.
Bruce 2
The current government's climate change underminers are no longer taken seriously at international conferences. Their speeches are ignored.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter if one thinks global warming is or is not hogwash. Climate change has to be retarded.
Go talk to farmers near Camrose and ask them what they think about having no water for their crops and livestock.
Tree-ring chronologies from living and sub-fossil Pinus flexilis James (limber pine) trees extend back more than 500 yr on the western edge of the Great Plains in Alberta. Living trees were found to be as old as 526 yr. Tree-ring growth in Pinus flexilis is most sensitive to annual precipitation over the annualization period August to July. The longevity of the trees coupled with their sensitivity to variations in annual precipitation make them an important resource for constructing annually resolved multicentury records of paleohydrology on the northwestern Great Plains. A 487-yr reconstruction of annual precipitation in southwestern Alberta was produced from the tree-ring series. This is the longest dendroclimatological reconstruction of precipitation available from the northern plains. The reconstruction has some similarity to reconstructions from the western Great Plains of the United States. However, there are also many divergences in the timing of droughts. Some of this divergence may reflect the importance of orographic uplift in producing precipitation along the eastern flanks of the Rocky Mountains. Our reconstruction shows that the frequency of droughts in Alberta during the period of instrumental records, about the last 100 yr, has not been appreciably different from conditions of the preceding four centuries. In addition, the most severe drought of this century, which led to widespread farm abandonment between 1918 and 1922, was not the most severe drought in the past 487 yr.
Anon July 5, 2009 8:22 PM: You're either a troll, or someone who has no idea what they're talking about.
Global cooling over the last 10 years? Uh... no.. Can you back that claim up with a reputable source?
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29342&Cr=climate&Cr1
Oh, and stop with the ridiculous Ad hominem attacks on people like Gore and Hansen. Criticize the idea, not the people who put it forward.
As for the whole "debate", it happens in academia, where discussions of a scientific nature belong. And it's settled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26065-2004Dec25.html
"According to NASA scientists, the greatest influence on climate change isn't human activity. It turns out that solar activity has the greatest impact on our climate. The Space & Science Research Center (SSRC) recently posted an article on spaceandscience.net that states a period of global cooling will be taking place in the coming years. I've attached the weblink to the article here (http://www.spaceandscience.net/id16.html). In a nutshell, the sun isn't generating as many sunspots, which have a tremendous impact on our planet. As a result of there being fewer sunspots, the Earth will begin to cool. Also, these periods of warming & cooling have long been a part of the Earth's history, even before man came into being.
What's most interesting is how we haven't heard about this in the media. I guess they're caught up in the new, acceptable religion known as global warming. Which I guess makes Al Gore our new lord & savior. I wonder if I'll be charged with heresy for writing this. I also wonder how the news media of today would have covered the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago. They probably would have given us headlines like this: "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!"
So don't be so quick to stock up on bikinis, suntan lotion & beach towels in preparation for global warming. You may need to stock up on winter parkas, snowshoes & anti-freeze instead."
Show me something from "Science" or "Nature" rather than Joe Q. Random's website, and I'll consider your theory.
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