If only you saw the developement first hand you'd know your "green theme" is waste of your time and efforts.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm just going by the facts. Anecdotal evidence isn't always correct and even if you have a hunch, it's better to have it backed up with concrete review.
Ottawa experiences the winter that wasn't, Environment Canada confirms
It’s official — the winter of 2011-12 was the warmest Ottawa has ever seen.
Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said Monday that for the period of November through March — not the official winter but the “real” winter Ottawans experience — the average temperature was –1.3 degrees C. Normal would be –5.3.
In records that go back to 1889, there’s never been a winter like it. The winter of 2001-02, which had an average temperature of –1.7, had been the champ until now.
“We used to describe that as ‘the year winter was cancelled,’” Phillips said.
But 2011-12 beat it easily.
“You had 10 days where the temperature got below –20. You normally would have more than 20 of those,” he said.
On top of that, the winter had the third-lowest amount of snow on record for that five-month period at 108 centimetres. Normal would be 203.
Paul Murphy, owner of the Calabogie Peaks ski resort, certainly noticed the difference. People didn’t start their ski season until the week of Christmas, he said and the startling summer burst in March ended things abruptly.
“That late start and fast finish probably peeled about 30 days of normal traffic out of the business,” Murphy said, where a normal season is 100 to 110 days long.
Luckily, he was saved by cutting-edge snow-making machine he invested in recently because of the warming winters.
Figures for Environment Canada’s official December-February winter period tell a story of very mild winter throughout the country.
The winter-that-wasn’t was most pronounced on the Prairies, which had the driest winter on record, with 56 per cent less snow and rain than normal and temperatures more than 6 C higher than normal, according to Environment Canada.
The winter fits with a pronounced warming trend, according to the department’s climate trackers, who note that Canada’s average winter temperatures have been at or above normal since 1997.
They report that the national average temperature for the winter 2011-12 was 3.6 C above normal, the third warmest since nationwide records began in 1948.
“Virtually all of the country was above normal, with most of the prairie provinces experiencing temperatures more than 6 degrees above normal,” Environment Canada’s climate science team said in its winter bulletin posted online Monday. Small areas of the British Columbia and Labrador coasts and northern Nunavut had the closest to normal temperatures.
Nine of Canada’s 11 regions had one of their 10 warmest winters. The Prairies (second warmest, 6.3 C above normal); Northwestern Forest (second warmest, 6.0 C above normal); Great Lakes/St. Lawrence (second warmest, 4.0 C above normal); Mackenzie District (third warmest, 5.5 C above normal); Northeastern Forest (sixth warmest, 3.0 C above normal); North B.C. Mountains/Yukon (seventh warmest, 4.7 C above normal); South B.C. Mountains (ninth warmest, 2.7 C above normal); Arctic Tundra (ninth warmest, 2.5 C above normal); and Atlantic Canada (10th warmest, 2.3 C above normal).
The bulletin includes a graph showing Canada’s winters have warmed over the last 65 years by 3.2 C — the Mackenzie District in the western Arctic has been most affected with a warming trend of 4.9 C over the 65-year record. Atlantic Canada shows the smallest warming — just 0.5 C over 65 years.
Winter 2011-12 was also unusually dry, with 18 per cent less precipitation than normal. That made it the second driest in the 65 years of record, second only to the winter of 1956-57.
The Prairies, northern Northwest Territories and northern Quebec were at least 40 per cent drier than normal — in the case of the Prairies the driest on record at 56 per cent below normal.
Only the Pacific coast was soggier than usual, with two per cent more rain and snow than normal.
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Environment Canada also posted the climate trend bulletin for last year on Monday. It says the national average temperature in 2011 was 1.5 C above normal, the eighth-warmest year since records began in 1948. Most of Canada was above normal with much of Nunavut at least 2 C above normal. Canada was also drier than usual last year, with five per cent less precipitation than normal.
Some commentators and politicians, such as Alberta Wildrose leader Danielle Smith, say they are not convinced humans are contributing to the warming trend, but Environment Canada climate science division says the “international scientific community has determined that recent changes in many aspects of global climate have been primarily caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and that human activities are a major source of these gases.”
It notes that “in Canada, we are already seeing rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and increases in certain types of hazardous weather, such as heat waves. In the Arctic, rising temperatures are thawing permafrost and shrinking the ocean’s ice cover.”
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Which parts of the "climate change models" rely on feedbacks? How do you model the hypothetical without a basis of proven cause/effect?
C'mon Petros, the study was done by the goods folks over at FAIR... Based on the name of the group, the study is bound to be sober and objective.
Memo to all:
Flossy would appreciate if you left that wee tidbit of info out of the analysis... Makes it more difficult to spread the propaganda.
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