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#181 Mike K.

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Posted 21 May 2022 - 07:40 AM

If we had true first past the post in a federal election, the Conservatives would have won the last two elections.

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#182 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 May 2022 - 05:12 AM

Ok. Let’s think this through rationally.



Victoria plans suite of measures to take sting out of extreme heat

The City of Victoria is planning ahead for the next extreme heat event after last year's heat dome caused temperatures to rise to almost 40 C.



Patterson said in extreme cases cooling centres may have to be established where the public can go to get some relief.

She noted local shopping centres and libraries offer air-conditioned spaces, while many senior’s centres offer similar kinds of places.

She said the city will create its own centres in the same way warming centres are established in the winter, by activating facilities to handle an influx of people.

Cooling centres, she said, would ideally be centralized, air-conditioned buildings that would have washing facilities and be pet friendly.


https://www.timescol...me-heat-5395862



Given that well over 99% of the people in the CoV have homes, wouldn’t it just make more sense to just remind people how to cool at home? Surely a shower or bath beats going out to a “mist centre”.

A similar education program can exist for the homeless.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 May 2022 - 05:16 AM.


#183 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 May 2022 - 08:06 AM

It’s also almost exclusively the elderly that die from heat. Let’s just concentrate on messaging them and have neighbours help.

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 03:20 PM

Scientists warn future temperatures will test humans' ability to survive

Some parts of the planet expected to become too hot for humans to live in


https://www.cbc.ca/n...ation-1.6467410


India and Pakistan recently saw temperatures soar to 50 C, killing at least 90 people and devastating agricultural harvests.

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Canada is also feeling the effects of extreme heat: in British Columbia last summer, 595 people died from the heat. The village of Lytton, B.C., set a new Canadian heat record (49.6 C) on June 29, before it was razed by a wildfire the next day. The same "heat dome" left the ground parched, contributing to catastrophic flooding in B.C. months later.





India population: 1.38 billion
BC population: 5 million.

So BC has nearly 300x less people.

This article is garbage. For example, it never states where on the planet people will be “unable to live”, even though that’s the sub-headline.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 May 2022 - 03:26 PM.


#185 Nparker

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 03:28 PM

It's CBC. They have to publish at least one fear article like this every day, or risk losing government funding.



#186 Nparker

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 03:31 PM

...Some parts of the planet expected to become too hot for humans to live in...

Some parts of the planet have been inhospitable to human life for millennia, i.e. Antarctica. Perhaps climate change will mitigate this.



#187 dasmo

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 03:51 PM

Do they take into account solar cycles? I don’t really follow the climate change science too closely nor the fear mongering associated with it. I used to just take it for granted as true after Al Gore sold it so well. Now I’m at max skeptic combined with experiencing what the authorities are capable of in the name of science I am more interested. We do have cycles. One frequency roughly peaking every ten years and another over that that seems to be every 100 years. Is this in there?

#188 Nparker

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 03:54 PM

The earth's climate was 100% stable and unchanging until about a century ago. That's what contemporary climate science has taught me.


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#189 max.bravo

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 04:39 PM

I think Doomsday prophesying is in humans’ DNA. When the world was religious we talked about the apocalypse.

Now the world is secular we talk about climate catastrophe ending the world.

Extinction rebellion loonies are merely the modern equivalent of a guy on the corner with a sign saying “the end is near.” Prophesying the end of the world is just something humans are prone to do.
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#190 dasmo

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 05:57 PM

It’s not the crazy folks that have my attention. It is the policy makers and the WEF crowd that do.
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Posted 28 May 2022 - 09:27 PM

Climate "science" has for all intents and purposes become a religion. It's proponents are thoroughly dogmatic and nothing is allowed to be questioned unless you're willing to be labeled a heretic.

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Posted 28 May 2022 - 10:36 PM

That sounds like everything these days….

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Posted 04 June 2022 - 05:23 AM

Greater Victoria’s May was one of the coldest, wettest in 20 years

 

Gloomy conditions may help quell early-season forest fire intensity

 

https://www.vicnews....st-in-20-years/



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Posted 05 June 2022 - 06:43 AM

A cold May on Vancouver Island and no heat dome on the horizon — yet

“The heat dome was definitely one of those historic events. It was a one-in-a-100-years event, so I surely hope that won’t occur again this year.”

https://www.timescol...zon-yet-5444939

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#195 dasmo

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Posted 05 June 2022 - 08:07 AM

Are they saying we live under a dome?

#196 Nparker

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Posted 05 June 2022 - 08:36 AM

A cold May on Vancouver Island and no heat dome on the horizon — yet...

Adding  "yet" is such a **** move. It's like they are hoping for another excess heat event. I am sick of the fear tactics perpetuated by the media to support a particular agenda.



#197 Nparker

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Posted 05 June 2022 - 08:38 AM

Are they saying we live under a dome?

Even Stephen King - the modern master of horror - didn't have a great deal of success with this concept.


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Posted 05 June 2022 - 09:00 AM

“ As global temperatures increase, Arctic ice melts at a faster rate, causing sea levels to rise. Melting polar ice also means less light from the Sun getting reflected into space, resulting in more heat being absorbed into ever-warmer oceans. This increases the supply of warm air being infused into the polar vortex, causing its stability to weaken and winter weather to become more extreme.”

It’s getting colder because it’s getting warmer….


https://secondnexus....-colder-winters

#199 Nparker

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Posted 05 June 2022 - 09:21 AM

So if there's more severe winter weather, won't that counter the effect of melting polar ice?



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Posted 05 June 2022 - 09:36 AM

Not only that but sea level rising isn’t noticeable because the land is rising
“ Variation in sea level change between the four B.C. sites is largely explained by different amounts of vertical land movement. Land along the southwest coast of Vancouver Island is rising at about 25 centimetres per century, while vertical land motion of Prince Rupert is negligable, thus explaining the approximately 25 centimetres difference in sea-level change between Tofino and Prince Rupert.”

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