Topic: Good battery, synthetic oil and block heater...

[mrthompson]

I truly wish the climate change get-together was occurring in a prairie city, not Copenhagen, right now.  Perhaps the delegates would have a more realistic perspective on things if they experienced brutal record setting cold and a touch of frost bite.  It might inject a healthy shot of realism to the proceedings.   

Were you meaning to say that the climate change powers that be ought to look differently upon countries located far from the equator?  Special consideration for the extremes of our climate and how we have to cope with them?

[Pleem]

The recent cold on the Cdn Prairies is "weather", not "climate". Ppl mistake the two all the time. Climate is long term, weather is short (day, month, season even).

I truly wish the climate change get-together was occurring in a prairie city, not Copenhagen, right now.  Perhaps the delegates would have a more realistic perspective on things if they experienced brutal record setting cold and a touch of frost bite.  It might inject a healthy shot of realism to the proceedings.   

The recent cold on the Cdn Prairies is "weather", not "climate". Ppl mistake the two all the time. Climate is long term, weather is short (day, month, season even).

I forgot...a severe cold snap is just a weather anomaly but a heat wave is further proof of AGW.  My apologies.

No, a heat wave is also weather, not proof of AGW. Somehow I don't think the apology was sincere tho....

You're right, Ovr, both extremes should be interpreted as weather events - at least over the short term - and it was an insincere apology; cynicism intended!

My intent was not to redirect this topic to an AGW discussion; just a personal opinion regarding coincident current events.     

'nuff said on my part.  I'll leave it at that.   

[safristi]

..NO let us beat those Global WARMING skivvers...who cheat on CLIMATEGATE ,,,and obfusCATE on ever 'weather event" themselves with a BIG STICK until they cool off and go away and fester in HELL........they are attempting to ruin the World economy in the name of later day hippies and sophisticated inter GOVERNMENTAL excercises that should be LAUGHED OFF THE PLANET.......................