Snow in Copenhagen at conclusion of Global Warming Meetings

Some interesting facts about Denmark. Click the link.

Glaciers and sea levels

Myth: Human activities are causing unprecedented melting of Earth's glaciers and accompanying sea level rise.
Fact: Ask yourself, why did so many more glaciers melt and sea level rise 18 to 20 feet higher than today during the last interglacial period, 120,000 years ago, when modern man was not around to introduce any CO2 into the atmosphere? Ponder the facts.

Glaciers and Sea Level

Is this supposed to happen?

North Atlantic Hurricane Season ends -- > Houston Chronicle
November 30, 2009: With the official end of the 2009 North Atlantic hurricane season, it is time to put the season in perspective and compare to the past 70-seasons. In terms of the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index [ACE], 2009 tallied ~52 ACE points which is less than half of normal. Here is a listing of the past 70-years of ACE values for the North Atlantic Listing . 2009 was the quietest year since 1997 (ACE= 41) and the 16th slowest since 1940. Interestingly, 2009 saw 1/5th of the activity of 2005, the most active ACE season on record. 3 storms out of the total of 9 accounted for 85% of the total ACE (Bill, Fred, and Ida). These 3 storms were the only hurricanes out of the total 9 tropical storms.

Did we stop putting CO2 into the atmosphere? Is that why 2009 was so low?

Over to you IPCC.

Dangerously cold temperatures hit Prairies, windchills reaching minus 50

Module body

Sat Dec 12, 9:42 PM

By The Canadian Press

EDMONTON - Dangerously cold temperatures have settled in across much of the Prairies and northern Ontario this weekend.
Environment Canada has issued warnings, saying the windchill could reach -50C.
At those temperatures, exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.
In both Edmonton and Calgary, police and paramedics were moving out to help get the homeless into shelters.

# Ottawa under fire from Quebec and Ontario for its stance at Copenhagen: The Canadian Press
But not Alberta.
Damn that global warming! 

Oh, bring us some global warming

 December 12, 2009

The central Ontario towns of Bracebridge and Huntsville have declared snow emergencies amid a record-breaking squall that is expected dump nearly a metre of snow before sunrise Saturday.

According to Environment Canada, up to 80 centimetres of snow is expected to fall by Friday night — eight centimetres more than the Muskoka area's average snowfall for the entire month of December.
More than 50 centimetres had fallen this month before the snow squall hit, and the previous single-day snowfall record for Huntsville — 54 centimetres on March 4, 1985 — was smashed.

 

OPP advise motorists to stay off the roads in Bracebridge and Gravenhurst.

 

Wed Dec 9, 7:04 PM
By The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa - A fierce storm left dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds in its wake and was blamed for at least 16 deaths as it as it slogged eastward Wednesday from the Midwest to the New England region in the country's northeast.

Excess winter mortality, England and Wales, 1999/2000 to 2008/2009
In the winter period of December to March 2008/09 there were an estimated 36,700 more deaths in England and Wales, compared with the average for the non-winter period (see definition below). This was an increase of 49 per cent compared with the number in the previous winter 2007/08. This is the highest number of excess winter deaths since the winter of 1999/2000, when excess winter mortality was nearly a third higher than in 2008/09.

From Norway: Less well known are seasonal variations in death rates, with the highest levels occurring during the colder winter months, which have been described in many countries. This phenomenon is referred to as excess winter mortality.

From Canada:
In a Utopian world, we would banish winter and all be on a permanent summer vacation.
That's one of the conclusions we might reach after reading about a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which shows that there are fewer deaths in countries all around the world during summer months. The authors examined mortality statistics from European countries (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden), Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
In Canada and the U.S., death rates are lowest in August and highest in December and January. The study authors speculate that temperature plays a major role when it comes to "excess mortality" and more specifically, cold weather is associated with a higher risk of death from cardiovascular causes and respiratory infections.


Oh, bring us some global warming
Oh, bring us some global warming
Oh, bring us some global warming
It's the cold that we fear.


We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
So bring it right here.