"Did somebody say 'global warming'?"
Posted on 11/29/2005 3:49:59 AM PST by F14 Pilot
MONTREAL — Many Canadians go to their local outdoor hockey rink to skate and live the dream of scoring that winning Stanley Cup goal.
But this quintessential slice of Canadian life in wintertime is slowly melting away because of global warming, says a collection of young environmentalists.
‘‘A bunch of us are fairly avid hockey fans and hockey players and we noticed that we were waiting longer and longer every year to play, and then we started phoning rink operators and were told the same story,’’ said Mike Hudema of Global Exchange.
Hudema, a 28-year-old from Edmonton, Alta., said the campaign, launched over the weekend, has been joined by about a dozen environmental groups, including the heavy-hitting World Wildlife Fund. He said volunteers ‘‘frustrated with having to play hockey games on slush’’ have already started to hand out postcards at NHL games across the country urging people to pressure Ottawa to take action.
Global warming helps outdoor fishing: activists.
Canada has space further to the north. These enthusiasts ought to move to the Arctic Circle. But that might disrupt their lives. I guess they could petition their government to alter the world's climate. That won't disrupt anyone's life, eh?
"Did somebody say 'global warming'?"
***But this quintessential slice of Canadian life in wintertime is slowly melting away because of global warming, says a collection of young environmentalists.
More brainwashed skulls full of mush. No bias here. ***
As another thread here yeaterday said, global warming will cause the polar caps to melt dumping cold water in the ocean, causing the gulf stream, which brings warm water from the gulf, to chamge, causing extreme freezing in the north Atlantic and Europe.
Global warming bad! primitive living good! Ugh!
Exactly. If global warming causes global freezing, is it really global warming? I haven't heard anyone try to explain that.
For young people, they sure seem to bitch and complain a lot.
What the puc is going on here? Dare we make some slapstick comments about this situation, without getting into a heated argument?
> Global warming helps outdoor fishing: activists.
It's kind of tough to go fishing in the winter when the lake isn't frozen.
Why would anyone fish in a frozen lake :^). Florida lakes never freeze and the fishing is great year round.
Your backhanded carping will not net you your goal. Powerplays are overrated, and you are clearly offsides without a stick to shake... If the blue line is melting, can we still call it "icing"?
"Global warming helps outdoor fishing: activists."
What about ice fishing... what are you - some kind of ice fishing discriminator? :)
Seriously, instead making emotional appeals like "global warming is killing outdoor hockey so we have to enforce the Kyoto treaty, these people would be better off to take a look at the pattern of global warming and realize it does not match the pattern of human activity.
Exactly what do they expect Ottawa to do? Pass a law making it colder, sooner? These are definitely idiots with too much time on their hands. ay!
I went to a hockey game and a bass tournament broke out.
Global warming is real.
In the 1600s, Londoners were skating on the Thames river. Since 1814, it has never really frozen over completely.
Of course, that had nothing to do with CO2 emissions.
Yes, and proud of it!
For far too long we water-fishers have had to put up with the government-imposed "winter" regulations requiring ice on lakes.
Just to support a tiny minority who like to walk on it and cut holes in it.
I demand that our government respond to the majority and pump MORE CFCs, so as to preserve our constitutional right to carp.
:->
"Global Warming", as currently defined by so-called environmentalists, is a man-made phenomenon. Whenever I see those words together, I assume that they mean the junk-science crapola being foisted in place of "global cooling" from 20 years ago.
Now, cyclic (including long-term cycles) climate change I believe in. But "global warming" (as the term has been misdefined) is a steaming pile.
""Global Warming", as currently defined by so-called environmentalists, is a man-made phenomenon. Whenever I see those words together, I assume that they mean the junk-science crapola being foisted in place of "global cooling" from 20 years ago."
Yep, we really need to recalim that terminology for it's actual meaning- i.e. "an increase in the earths average surface temperature" so we can de-link global warming from human causation.
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