“Canadian climate sleuths”, begins the newspaper article without any apparent hint of mockery, “have detected for the first time a human hand in the increasing fury of intense storms battering the Northern Hemisphere.” According to these weather detectives, greenhouse gases created by selfish human activities (like driving to work) are the reason why it rains more often in the Northern Hemisphere.
Climatologist Myles Allen, at the University of Oxford, says the research is also increasingly important because of international funding needed to help with adaptation to climate change:
“Because that money is on the table, it is suddenly going to be in everyone’s interest to be a victim of climate change,” he says. “So we need urgently to develop the science base to be able to distinguish genuine impacts of climate change from unfortunate consequences of bad weather.”
Well said, sir, well said. I was victimized badly by global warming this morning, requiring the use of an umbrella as I walked to the bus stop. What this calls for is more renewable energy sources. I’ve consistently said that what we need is less dependence on black gooey stuff from out of the ground, and more things like solar and wind power. Especially wind power because…
A $200-million wind farm in northern New Brunswick is frozen solid, cutting off a potential supply of renewable energy for NB Power.
The 25-kilometre stretch of wind turbines, located 70 kilometres northwest of Bathurst, N.B. has been completely shut down for several weeks due to heavy ice covering the blades.
Ugh. I hate it when global warming is constantly freezing things solid. It’s always doing that these days.
“greenhouse gases created by selfish human activities (like driving to work) are the reason why it rains more often in the Northern Hemisphere.”
Okay.I’ll do my part. Gimme a modest pension of say, 3 grand a month, and I’ll never drive to work again.
btw, I’d love to have someone check on the efficiency of the B.C. wind farms up on the mountain top by Tumbler Ridge. The temperatures at that elevation in Winter must be very hard on any moving parts.
Any folks from Tumbler Ridge ever blog here?
Agreed. 3 grand would tide me over nicely. Think of it as buying carbon credits.
I have the perfect solution to Global Warming: Do like the Aztecs and have human sacrifices every morning to guarantee that the Sun will come up tomorrow or in our case defeat Global Warming, Climate Change or whatever it’s called today when nature refuses to cooperate and covers us in a mile of Ice when they are proven all wrong and it’s actually Global cooing.
Oh, we cause Global Cooling by burning to much gas and putting out too much carbon in the air ….. it’s our fault, it’s our fault, it’s our fault, it’s our fault, it’s our fault, whatever we do …… LOL
LOL. I bow to your superior art of sarcasm. (seriously)
I was “this” close to changing it to “ruh-roh”, but I figured that was too sarcastic.
Well at least those frozen wind farms won’t be killing thousands of birds right?
Everything is now caused by ACC, so we should be compensated for everything. I would love to recieve money from China for all of the GHGs they are releasing into my air. But of couse we’ll need a world central government to distribute all of the compnsation for everything. Welcome to the new world comrade.
Ahhh, the magic words.
“Climatologist Myles Allen, at the University of Oxford, says the research is also increasingly important because of international funding needed to help with adaptation to climate change :
No researcher can state that all is good. Funding dries up and he/she would have to find a real job. The sky must continue to fall in order to have a payday. Simple logic.