Canada Failing to Put Climate Change Plans in Action

Curious Cdn

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The new concern about rising water is the rate the ice is melting in Greenland and the far north, but if the ice packs are actually starting to regrow wouldn't that mean the sea levels should recede? In this article it is saying the NA water is rising due to the change in the arctic stream warmer water coming in closer to land and expanding the density/elasticity of the water, while the rest of the world is not seeing the drastic rise.
Are the Oceans Rising?
So there are many factors to consider not just GW, but every article I've read points to dramatic rise due to melting ice if the ice isn't melting and in fact expanding is the rise actually happening in the most recent models or do new models need to be made?
Greenland has been melting for 12000 years. A lot of it around the continent was sea ice, which does not raise water levels but now that the continental ice on Greenland and Antarctica are going too, water levels are going up. No politics involved.
 

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Sorry. Right you are. I should have added that the original French settlers built dikes there. I doubt that the Mi'kmaq tried to hold back the sea.




And what sea level measuring tools did the natives use to compare sea levels from year to year??????????????????????


OR decade to decade without a written language????????????????????????



Feet wet...............................sea high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Feet dry.................................sea low!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Did you know there is a one foot DIFFERENCE in sea levels between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It has to do with all the islands between Australia and Malaysia blocking the flow of tides!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In related news..................wind driven currents can RAISE the water level at the south eastern end of Georgian Bay by as much as a Foot in an afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My son was DISGUSTED that the rising waters destroyed his sand castles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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And what sea level measuring tools did the natives use to compare sea levels from year to year??????????????????????
OR decade to decade without a written language????????????????????????
Feet wet...............................sea high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feet dry.................................sea low!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you know there is a one foot DIFFERENCE in sea levels between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has to do with all the islands between Australia and Malaysia blocking the flow of tides!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news..................wind driven currents can RAISE the water level at the south eastern end of Georgian Bay by as much as a Foot in an afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My son was DISGUSTED that the rising waters destroyed his sand castles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chip off the ole block, eh Cap'n?
 

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Sorry JLM, for this area, the future could be tomorrow.

I would rather prepare for the possible and have it not happen, than do nothing and see my entire area under water and people left stranded/left to die because there was nothing in place since "There's nothing to worry about".

There is LOTS to worry about here.
I would rather adapt to situations as they occur as all of nature has done since the big bang . But that is just me .
 

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I was just speaking in generally terms as this accident illustrates well what CAN happen when you are hauling fuel on the highway as opposed to transporting it through a pipe.
I know that .
 

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Except I am watching the climate change right before my eyes, in this very area.

Besides, worrying about one does not mean I exclude worrying about the other. Both are equally worrisome and it is possible to feel that way. Just sorry that you're a one issue kind'a person.
What else has been happening in your area that could affect the ecosystem? I ask simply because the re-introduction of beaver in B.C’s interior helped stem the desertification of the region . Is the change in the area perhaps caused by other factors ?
 

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Sorry JLM, for this area, the future could be tomorrow.

I would rather prepare for the possible and have it not happen, than do nothing and see my entire area under water and people left stranded/left to die because there was nothing in place since "There's nothing to worry about".

There is LOTS to worry about here.


Let's just suppose N.S. was an island temporarily! Would that be the end of the world? P.E.I. is an island and it's surviving quite well.
 

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This probably has no bearing on pipeline .it sounds like delivery fuel .
Pipelines do "batches". Refined product is piped from Edmonchuck to a Kamloops tank farm for distribution.

Due to a lack of pipeline capacity refined product from the CO-OP refinery in Regina is trucked to CO-OP gas stations throughout BC including the island.

Nobody seems to give a shit about accident prone BC Ferries carrying millions of litres of gas, diesel, bunker, propane and heating oil a year. Do they have an emergency response system in place? They are tankers by proxy and every bit a risk.

If BC Ferries were banned from transporting petroleum products you'd hear hoid bitch and whine like a 6 year old girl who got socks and underwear for Christmas.
 
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Let's just suppose N.S. was an island temporarily! Would that be the end of the world? P.E.I. is an island and it's surviving quite well.


Let's suppose the Isthmus of Chignecto refills, cutting NS off from NB, making not only NS an island, but isolating Aulac, NB and affecting Sackville itself.

The Economy locally tanks because the now lack of freedom of movement between NB and NS, as the highway and rails would not survive a surge. There are a LOT of people who work in Sackville that are from Amherst and Aulac, and visa versa. The commerce that travels between here and NS - and here to PEI - would be devastated as well. Costs rise because now that stuff has to be brought in by plane instead of on trucks.

There are a LOT of homes in the lowland and a lot of farms in the lowland. Part of the Marsh itself is the community acreage to share for cattle. That would be gone. I work with one lady who owns a farm right on the edge of the marsh and it's been there for generations. That'd be gone. Other farms, locally, gone. Sackville Industrial Park; gone. Depending on the height of the surge, half the downtown of Sackville gone or now small island pockets.

A surge happens, cutting off the high ridge - Aulac - and turns it into an island because if the Bay floods, likely so will Port Elgin (village towards PEI), so the land is cut off on the east, north and west, with south already ending to the Bay. An emergency happens and there is no plans in place. People die as in this area, Sackville has a boat, Amherst might have one (don't know for sure but can't see them not), Port Elgin likely has one or can get one, but the actual rural FD that is in Aulac - Point du Bute - does NOT have a boat and can't afford one as it's a rural volunteer department. So mutual aid is called to Sackville or Amherst for a 911 call in the area. Sackville gets their boat, goes to... well there's no boat landings near the river/edge of the Marsh so they'd have to search for a place to launch from, then cross the marsh and reach a landing point in Aulac. Now Amherst is a little closer to Aulac both in time and land so they'd get there sooner, IF they're not answering calls of their own.

Meanwhile patient dies because they didn't get there on time.

There are a whole BUNCH of other scenarios that this area faces if there is any sort of surge what so ever that would flood the Marsh.

Would that be the end of the world, you ask? Abso-****ing-lootly, to the people involved in the area and surrounding area. Deaths, loss of land and homes, the economy, those would be felt for years and years.

Unless all of that doesn't matter what so ever to you, then I guess sure, having NS an island doesn't matter at all... :|
 

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Greenland has been melting for 12000 years. A lot of it around the continent was sea ice, which does not raise water levels but now that the continental ice on Greenland and Antarctica are going too, water levels are going up. No politics involved.

Ummm, How come you trumphaters can't ever tell the truth about anything, and your predictions all suck totally?
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Greenland Ice Sheet Still Growing In Mid-July

The Greenland ice sheet is blowing away all records for growth this year, and is still growing in mid-July.


https://realclimatescience.com/2017/07/greenland-ice-sheet-still-growing-in-mid-july/
 

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Chip off the ole block, eh Cap'n?


He is an intelligent kid and thus he is mine..............................................


and could not possibly have been knocked off your dense Red Tory block!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!


At age my kid was more sensible than you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



In related news.....................how much of the alleged one foot rise in sea level in Nova Scotia is related to a shift of hundreds of feet in the ENTIRE Atlantic coast line because of Continental Drift???????????????



The ENTIRE Atlantic shore is being eroded................and PUSHED UNDER other tectonic plates....................but such a concept will be unacceptable to LIE-berals who only recently came to accept the Earth eas NOT FLAT!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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In related news.....................how much of the alleged one foot rise in sea level in Nova Scotia is related to a shift of hundreds of feet in the ENTIRE Atlantic coast line because of Continental Drift???????????????

That was measured over 69 years. How fast do you think that the continents are drifting, anyway?

I do pity your poor kid.

He's going to end up as a Lie-beral.
 

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In related news.....................how much of the alleged one foot rise in sea level in Nova Scotia is related to a shift of hundreds of feet in the ENTIRE Atlantic coast line because of Continental Drift???????????????

That was measured over 69 years. How fast do you think that the continents are drifting, anyway?

I do pity your poor kid.

He's going to end up as a Lie-beral.


OH DEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And how would 69 years worth of continental drift have affected the shore line...................and the LIE-beral measuring platforms???????????????????


Author Michael Crichton points out in his book "State of Fear" that weather stations that have been in existence for a long time are producing ever more UNRELIABLE DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AS a result of various local changes- Crichton DOCUMENTS how scientists "extrapolate" for various base level changes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And it is in the "extrapolation" that the climate LIES creep in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Because of CHANGING circumstances around the weather stations that LIE-berals are IGNORING or deliberately FUDGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Crichton cites various legitimate studies that indicate there IS NO MEASURABLE OVER ALL CHANGE in sea level!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That there is ONLY LOCALIZED change due to currents and wind patterns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


TVO has played documentaries about illegal dredging of sand from ocean bottoms because such sand makes better concrete than sand from a desert due to the shape of the grains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And as that ocean sand is sucked up and carried away..................shoreline erosion and flooding are increased!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Always DISHONEST LIE-berals want to tell us that shoreline erosion on various islands is the result of sea level rise when it is really the result of ILLEGAL DREDGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals IGNORE the effects of illegal dredging just as they ignore money laundering and soaring crime rates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Such things DO NOT FIT the LIE-beral narrative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As I mentioned..............the water level in south eastern Georgian Bay can alter by as much as one foot on a windy summer day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And there is no reason not to assume the same sort of stuff is occurring in eastern Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And WHY is there so much confusion about available information you ask????????????????????????


Because LIE-berals WANT GLOBAL WARMING AS AN EXCUSE to alter our society for their convenience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals DELIBERATELY LIE in support of their selfish and destructive plans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



LIE-berals simply CANNOT JUSTIFY their carbon crap and trade tax scam unless they can PROVE the environmental sky is FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So LIE-beral Chicken Littles LIE about the research!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As an example................................When the old weather stations were constructed decades ago ..........................many were out in the countryside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Away from cities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And we KNOW that forested areas are COOLER than grassy fields!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And we KNOW that grassy fields are cooler than CONCRETE parking lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Therefore..............as cities grow and devour forests and grasslands......................and the cooling vegetation is replaced by



concrete..............................the readings of weather stations that USED TO BE in the quiet countryside START READING HIGHER



TEMPERATURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But those higher temperature readings ARE LOCALIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The readings represent a change in average temperature over the city ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The altered readings DO NOT correspond to a change in temperature across the continent or across the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The LIE-beral methodology is DELIBERATELY SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The same sort of screwed up methodology is responsible for most sea level rise as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals take localized readings that are the result of wind or alteration of ocean current flow and happily extrapolate those LOCAL CONDITIONS across the entire planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Consider for instance the 65 million litres of semi treated waste the LIE-berals want to allow be dumped into Northumberland Strait......


and the waste product WILL BE WARMER than the ocean it is dumped into!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


With the result that local sea water temperatures WILL BE ALTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So here is a FUN QUESTION: how much of ocean temperature change and ocean level is driven by the dumping of millions of tons of SEWAGE into the sea????????????????????


And lest consider the possible CHANGES to ocean currents by that massive flow of sewage as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals tell us gthey are dedicated environmentalists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But the TRUTH IS LIE-berals are only interested in their PERSONAL environment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The rest of the world can drown in LIE-beral sewage for all they care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



For a decade or more LIE-berals have been LOUDLY lamenting the loss of Greenland ice cap and the loss of Arctic ice cover......................


and yet they ARE SILENT now that the biggest Greenland glacier is REBUILDING its ice pack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And LIE-berals are SILENT about recent VERY HEAVY ice conditions in Cdn Arctic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals ROUTINELY AND SHAMELESSLY EDIT FACTS............................for their selfish convenience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals have been caught out so often the public is no longer willing to take ANY LIE-beral statement at face value!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As for the LIE-beral assertions about increasingly severe weather............................that too is a function of city growth and it has LITTLE OR NOTHING to do with burning fossil fuel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



WE KNOW that hurricanes and tornadoes are spawned when warm moist air meets cool dry air............................


so cities.........................with their vast areas of concrete acting as heat sinks that ALTER the normal weather patterns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And we KNOW that high rise condo towers........................which LIE-berals are determined to FORCE US INTO...................are the best of all heat sinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


With the added bonus that urban dwellers are far more likely than suburban dwellers to be running air conditioners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AS an experiment I suggest you put your hand up to an air conditioner exhaust and get a feel for the HUGE PLUME of very hot air billowing out from the machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is environmentally MORE SOUND and rather comfortable to sit on green grass under a tree than it is to live in a concrete box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But for very selfish reasons...................LIE-berals DEMAND we live in those sweltering hot concrete boxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The construction of masses of concrete condo towers GREATLY INCREASES the surface area exposed to sun and enables MUCH MORE HEAT to be stored than would be the case in low rise or sub division construction - since the suburban concrete surface areas are reduced and there will be more trees and grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The difference is QUITE DRAMATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


From actual measurements- I know that on a typical HOT August day - the temperature difference between my FULL SUN front yard and my heavily treed back yard will be FULLY FIFTEEN DEGREES CELSIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And LIE-berals cannot LIE about things like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!