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Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity
International Herald Tribune ^
| January 16, 2009
| John Tagliabue Published: January 16, 2009
Posted on 01/17/2009 8:52:53 AM PST by gorush
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"But water pollution and climate change have made this so rare that today a boy of 15, Brinker's age, may never have seen a frozen canal, or at least remember one. Until, that is, this year."They are "little Ice Age" deniers.
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posted on
01/17/2009 8:52:53 AM PST
by
gorush
To: gorush
Greetings from:
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posted on
01/17/2009 8:56:31 AM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: gorush
How does pollution prevent water from freezing?
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posted on
01/17/2009 8:57:06 AM PST
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: Sherman Logan
"How does pollution prevent water from freezing?"Facts are demonstrably irrelevant to globull warming cultists.
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posted on
01/17/2009 8:59:18 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush; Fiddlstix; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; ...
To: gorush
Yes, you lit on the same damned sentence that I did. I thought this piece would finally be free of the usual NYT/IHT garbage, but no, they had to work in “water pollution and climate change.”
Hey, stupids, this is climate change. It’s COLDER this winter. And last winter, too.
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:00:08 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: gorush
How long before Holland’s Muslims take offense and issue a fatwa declaring that skating on canals blasphemes the Prophet and is unIslamic?
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:00:09 AM PST
by
rickmichaels
(WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN OBAMA'S TRUTH SQUADS RUN WILD ON YOU???)
To: gorush
In the future, when the canals freeze over again, they will be cited as evidence off climate change....
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:01:27 AM PST
by
freebilly
To: Cicero
Wanna bet birth rates are going to go through the roof also?
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:01:46 AM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: gorush
read that the temp in Fairbanks, AK has had a 96 degree swing in the last 5 days, going from a low in the -40’s to a high of 50 (something) yesterday.
looks like the ROVE/BUSH greenhouse gas machine started up in FAIRBANKS.
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:03:56 AM PST
by
machogirl
(not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
To: gorush
The reason my Dutch friend said “I BELIEVE in global warming” is because the canals no longer froze in winter. I will point this out to her. he he!
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01/17/2009 9:04:07 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: freebilly
darn it, i checked out my canal this morning (in chandler, az) and it’s not frozen, gotta put my skates back.
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01/17/2009 9:05:14 AM PST
by
machogirl
(not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
To: Sherman Logan
I guess that would depend on the pollutant (eg. salt ethylene glycol, etc.)
To: Ditter
It got down to -10 last night here in Cleveland Oh.
I think I’ve seen it colder in my lifetime here, but not by much and not very often.
To: Sherman Logan
How does pollution prevent water from freezing? Various chemicals change the freezing point. Salt or alcohol will drop it which is why road salt and antifreeze work.
When will all the Muzzies declare that ice skating is not allowed by the Koran and declare a fatwa.
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01/17/2009 9:09:21 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: Pessimist
It got down to -10 last night here in Cleveland Oh. I think Ive seen it colder in my lifetime here, but not by much and not very often. Dayton hit its lowest temperature in 15 years Friday morning.
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01/17/2009 9:14:11 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: xcamel
My first thought, after reading that first paragraph, was that for at least a single day the Dutch could imagine they were back in the old Holland before the Muslim immigrant invation.
Then, of course, the IHT had to spoil it with their environmentalist whining.
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:17:05 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: KarlInOhio
It was -20 here last night in Vermont, and -25 or 30 the night before.
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:18:09 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
“Hey, stupids, this is climate change. Its COLDER this winter. And last winter, too.”
I have spent the morning, unsuccessfully at this point, trying to unfreeze our water supply pipes with a hair dryer. These global warming nudniks can bite me.
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:18:47 AM PST
by
Batman11
To: rickmichaels
"Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity"
The Dutch have been skating on thin ice ever since the ROP gained a foothold in Holland.
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posted on
01/17/2009 9:20:18 AM PST
by
Dacus943
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