LOL.
And the thing that is omitted is that there are other things that can at
least partially explain the increase in shipping via Churchill.
Steve
--- Michael Meuser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Interesting post. Looks like its well worth scanning the list. Thnx
>
> By the way, you're not John Bellamy Foster are you?
>
> mike.
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am scan the posts on the 'trash talk' forum on 'global warming' and
> have
> > found some interesting things. There are not that many interesting
> items
> > but there are a few. Here is one such item....
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/business/03SHIP.html
> >
> > quote:
> >
>
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> > ------ While politicians debate the validity of global warming, some
> > shippers are voting with their boats, quietly shifting marine routes
> to
> > Churchill, Canada's northernmost industrial harbor. After decades of
> > ignoring the only major port on the Hudson Bay because of ice hazards,
> > shippers are finding that the retreating ice cover is putting
> Churchill on
> > the map.
> >
>
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> > ------
> >
> > One of the most interesting findings that was published this last year
> was
> > that on average over the last 100 years the ice on lakes in the
> European
> > countries has been vanishing much earlier as time progresses towards
> the
> > present.
> >
> > How did scientists observe this phenomenon?
> >
> > Well it was quite easy. There is a tradition held by clerics where
> there
> > are churches near lakes in many European countries of recording when
> the
> > ice melts on the lake. This has some significance for rural people as
> one
> > might imagine. I will post the article on this finding which is
> truely
> > remarkable.
> >
> > There are many lakes in BC that have not frozen over for quite some
> time.
> > I remember Shuswap Lake freezing over almost every winter because I
> used
> > to fly over the lake with my father - I was too small to fly by myself
> -
> > in the sixties and early seventies. But now it is not usual to find
> the
> > lake frozen over. In fact there are flowers growing in southern BC, in
> the
> > interior even in January near Lillooet, the hottest place in Canada.
> >
> > Anyway it is raining out right now, and I am at about 52 degrees north
> and
> > change. The elevation is 740 meters, and it is raining. This may be
> the
> > warmest winter on record here since I can remember. Normally there is
> > nearly 1 meter of snow in December out my back yard and I moved here
> in
> > 1992. So it is hotting up really good in the winter...what winter?
> >
> >
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