Hey Canada,

No QQ

Thanks,
Gravyguts

my band is playing Ottawa Bluesfest, which has been mostly on and off rain...and a little chillier than average

but frig man, it's CANADA

Playerslight: Joe_diGriz: And there are still people who are trying to convince us OMG!! GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE!!!


/am i doing it right?

I think I've heard the "global-warming my ass" argument at least 3 or 4 times in the last week from people who I've never heard comment on the issue. Does anyone have a clever, succinct response that I can give them in 10 seconds without having to get into explaining anecdotal vs theoretical vs statistically valid vs measurable etc etc etc?

Bonus points for creativity. I don't care about ideology, as it really doesn't matter in this instance (i.e. I want to be able to use it when it's really hot or really cold).

Tell them whats happening is exactly all part of the plan; NE is getting wetter and more mild due to global warming. then point and laugh at their confused look for failing to be able to comprehend anything other then their immediate stimuli.

OH NOES IT'S GLOBAL COOLING! EVERBODY PANIC!

solyhhit: It was great in Winnipeg last year. This year isn't too bad just a little more rain than usual.

On the minus side, WINNIPEG.

/Winnipeg

Hey, it's closer to being the true center of Canada than Toronto is. so it's got that going for it. Plus you're more likely to get your Slurpee roofied

Pxtl: iollow: Lower Canada

Actually, technically Ontario is called "Upper Canada", since it's further up the St. Laurence river, even though it is further South.

CANADA WEST OR DEATH!

/or something
/also loving the weather in Mississauga, though I work in downtown T.O.. It was nice to walk around at lunch not needing a jacket but also not melting into a puddle on the sidewalk

It feels like Vancouver in Calgary...constant rain...

/7uongo

its been 25`c - 35`c every day for the last couple weeks here in the interior of BC... shiatty spring, but the summer has been great so far.

Playerslight: Killer Cars: But yeah, it's not Toronto, so it doesn't count for anything.

Well, the truth hurts.

Let's all hate on Toronto because they're so smug!

/Love's when people outside of Ontario hate on a city that they think believes it's the capital of the country, yet they've probably never been.....
// btw I don't live in or around Toronto. I like the city but wouldn't want to live there.

Today in Calgary it is currently 52F with a high of 61F possible showers and a low of 46F tonight in American wacky units.

And Al Gore if I don't see global warming soon I am going to start burning tires to keep warm. I am not joking!

A hummer of a summer? I could use a hummer this summer.

Abstruse: It's farking 104 in the shade here.fark you Canada. fark you.

No shiat...I'd kill for some relief right about now. Sweaty and humid here in SWFL. To hell with this summer bullshiat.

Canadian living in Taiwan who is about the visit Canada in a few days.

Honestly, if the weather is cool, I'll be quite content.

It was over 40 degrees in Taiwan today.

I've said this to people in the NE biatching about not having a summer yet, so it's not an anti-Canada thing: fark YOU, CANADA. It was 105 in Dallas yesterday, probably will be the same today.

People biatching about it not being hot enough in summer annoy me almost as much about people in Texas who biatch because it rarely snows here. If you want hot, go south. If you want cold, go north. Retards.

Oh no the wildlings! Let's build a wall against Canada!

Been visiting my dad and it will be over 100 today and tomorrow and the next day and the next day...

/fark you people whining "Oh, it is nice and cool"

ronaprhys: Normally I'd say something like, "What matters is overall global temperature, not any local variations as averages matter more than anything.".

However, this does make for some interesting questions. What has the global average temp done in the last few years? I know that we were colder last winter and it seems that the trend was keeping up. I also seem to remember something about polar ice caps increasing in size. Toss in this potentially cooler summer and this year may well be lower. Now, one year doesn't make a trend, but it'd be interesting to see what the trend looks like.

Wellsir, two things are probably affecting the northern hemisphere. The most immediate, is the almost continuous eruption of one or more volcanoes in the Alaskan volcanic islands, and the rest of the northern ring of fire being unusually active over the last 6 months or so. The larger trend is the Sun, and it's lack of activity sunspotwise, AND it's collapsing magnetic field, which seem to correlate to colder weather, much colder weather, from what we have been able to glean from the fossil record. Much colder, as in here come the glaciers, colder, but the correlation between the collapse of the Sun's magnetosphere and that is still somewhat shaky to say the least. This summer's cooler weather can almost certainly be attributed to the Alaskan volcano activity throwing a large amount of debris into the northern atmosphere, however. I point to Tambora and the "year without a summer" of 1816.

Playerslight: Joe_diGriz: And there are still people who are trying to convince us OMG!! GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE!!!


/am i doing it right?

I think I've heard the "global-warming my ass" argument at least 3 or 4 times in the last week from people who I've never heard comment on the issue. Does anyone have a clever, succinct response that I can give them in 10 seconds without having to get into explaining anecdotal vs theoretical vs statistically valid vs measurable etc etc etc?

Bonus points for creativity. I don't care about ideology, as it really doesn't matter in this instance (i.e. I want to be able to use it when it's really hot or really cold).

You could ask them if they are able to accurately define global warming.

Or climate.

Or weather.

YOU LIVE ON THE TUNDRA...IT'S COLD THERE...IT'S GONNA BE COLD THERE. SEE THIS MCKENZIE, *rubs spf 50 coconut oil in his face*. MOVE TO WHERE THE SUN IS.


/channeling Sam Kinison

JC

ObscureNameHere: Aha! That explains my lack of invites to dinner parties.

No, it's probably still the hygiene issue.

It's my fault. Last time I was up in KanukLand I left the hotel air conditioner on and the windows open.

I also wrote "Hockey Sucks" in big yellow letters in the snow from said window.

I'm sorry.

Love and kisses GA

As a person living on the prairies I'll say it's been a shyt summer so far.

Minuses:
- grass getting long again
- car always dirty
- golf game getting rusty
- more rain = more mosquitoes

Pluses:
-save money on air conditioning


We get 9 months of winter here in Manitoba. I want my +30 degree days!

Civchic: THIS!! I am loving this "sucky" weather.

/also 7mos pregnant with a broken A/C in my crappy car. Been told summer can suck real bad in this condition - fine so far.
//Hamilton, ON

Yeah, my wife was preggers (with triplets, mind you!) throughout the summer ('til Aug) of '99. It was not pleasant for her.

BTW, I don't know where you plan to go, but McMaster has an excellent neonatal unit.

WWT SoCal Home w/o A/C in 101F heat for cool summer home in Canada.

threedingers: Pxtl: 1) Women, particularly my wife, are not dressing to beat the heat.

Yeah, that part does kinda suck. But then again, I work in a mostly-male office and live in an "aesthetically challenged" town, so I'm not missing much.

I hear you, I'm in Hamilton... but I still miss it on my wife.

I was visiting my parents in Oshawa over the weekend for a barbeque and something like this happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty32RU0HmAc

...in the middle of a Canadian July. This is ass. Seriously, we've got what, 5 weeks of summer left? Awesomes!

*not my video, but someone nearby.

Tax Boy: As it's been 100 degrees for over 2 weeks here in Houston, Canada, you're welcome to my summer. I'll be more than happy to spot you 25 degrees a day.

Same here in the Austin. Although we did have one day last week where it only hit 98 since it pretended like it was going to rain.

It is a bit worse for yall down in Houston though, with the 100000% humidity and all.

Playerslight: ObscureNameHere: Aha! That explains my lack of invites to dinner parties.

No, it's probably still the hygiene issue.

Curses! Look, I explained this before. The food is kept in the spaces of the teeth for later consumption. It's an efficient system!

95 here in San Diego

/HA

re: global warming

Northwest passage is melting > clouds / cold front > rain / cool
Meanwhile gulf of mexico hot > hot front / humid > thunderstorms / heatwave

ATXtech: Tax Boy: As it's been 100 degrees for over 2 weeks here in Houston, Canada, you're welcome to my summer. I'll be more than happy to spot you 25 degrees a day.

Same here in the Austin. Although we did have one day last week where it only hit 98 since it pretended like it was going to rain.

It is a bit worse for yall down in Houston though, with the 100000% humidity and all.

I suck at the grammar.

It's perfect here in the Mojave Desert. Warmer sunny days and absolutely beautiful nights. If this is Global Warming lets keep it.
Do ya hear that Al?

sparrow794: You could ask them if they are able to accurately define global warming.

You're overestimating my willingness to actually converse with these people. I'm trying to blow them off so I don't actually have to talk with them.

I've found it to be plenty warm in Toronto. It's pleasant today and was nice last night. Because of the tiny windows in my apartment and the way my building is shaped, I don't get much of a breeze, so during the summer, it gets stale and sweltering. So I've had the air conditioning in for a while, and it's been on every so often. I'd like to say I can beat it, but with no fresh air in my apartment and a large, west-facing window baking in the afternoon sun, I don't have much of a choice.

There's a point at which temperatures don't feel any hotter than a degree below it. 35C feels the same as 30C. It's just hot. Same thing with cold. -30C feels the same as -50C. It's just cold. Don't know how you southern staters can put up with it without draining the surrounding areas of all its natural resources. Of course, there's something to be said for dry heat. I was in Vegas last summer and it was very hot. But it was a dry heat, so it didn't choke you out.

One thing Toronto hasn't had nearly enough of is rain. Not that we want rain right now with the garbage strike, but we haven't had nearly enough this summer.

Averages schmaverages... Global warming/cooling my hairy, horny feet... I've always worried much more about the new temperature extremes we seem to be hitting all over the Gothdammed place.

Erratic, wide ranges between hot-cold temperature in individual locations = uninhabitable (think "the moon" or "Mars").

\Freely admit to being full of shiat
\\Still worry that I may be on to something even though I'm joking here
\\\Would rather summer in Canada than Florida
\\\\Florida? In summer? yagottabefarkinkiddinme indeed...

Pxtl: threedingers: Pxtl: 1) Women, particularly my wife, are not dressing to beat the heat.

Yeah, that part does kinda suck. But then again, I work in a mostly-male office and live in an "aesthetically challenged" town, so I'm not missing much.

I hear you, I'm in Hamilton... but I still miss it on my wife.

I would have thought Farker Ghastly would have gotten Steeltown all fabulousized by now. Guess these things take time.

Would you like to borrow some of Texas' summer?

It's pretty durn hot here. And I don't normally biatch about the heat.

hockeyfarker: Hey, it's closer to being the true center of Canada than Toronto is. so it's got that going for it. Plus you're more likely to get your Slurpee roofied

In all honesty I would probably only rather be in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Boston, Chicago, anywhere in Europe, Sweden, Norway...

As far as the slurpees go, this place is so ridden with diabeetus their missing limbs make it too hard for them to run away anyways. Roofies are just a waste of money.

ObscureNameHere: Curses! Look, I explained this before. The food is kept in the spaces of the teeth for later consumption. It's an efficient system!

Hey, you're preaching to the choir, buddy. I grew a full beard and leave my shirt open with my chest hair exposed for the exact same reason.

When I left the house, it was 67 degrees. Now it's 77 degrees.

/gasp

CLIMATE CHANGE

threedingers: BTW, I don't know where you plan to go, but McMaster has an excellent neonatal unit.

That's where I'm headed! I'm a Mac grad so I know the place (feel comfy there), plus that's where my midwife practices.

Can't really complain. We got unseasonable warm weather a month or more early. The snow was gone in March and people were doing their May gardening two months early. Sure beats the year before when I still had 2 feet of snow in April.

I usually take June holidays and got bumped but since it rained quite a bit the first two weeks I feel vindicated. Otherwise, it's been a very nice summer. Warm days, cooler nights, the grass isn't dead. WTF more do you want.

Bored Horde: This summer does suck, it's early farking july and I'm using a down comforter to not freeze my balls off at night

Your country sucks frozen moose dick, you stupid beaver herder!

Civchic: threedingers: I'm not complaining one little but. My grass is still green, I've run the A/C for a grand total of three days so far, my kids have been using our (heated) pool five days out of seven and I can cycle to work without having to spend 45 minutes cooling off.

If this summer "sucks" then I guess I like sucky weather.

/Brampton ON

THIS!! I am loving this "sucky" weather.

/also 7mos pregnant with a broken A/C in my crappy car. Been told summer can suck real bad in this condition - fine so far.
//Hamilton, ON

Fist-bump.

swaxhog: Warm days, cooler nights, the grass isn't dead. WTF more do you want.

Dead grass, actually. I'm farking sick of mowing my lawn every three days.

Fark you, 39C in Oklahoma right now, and not even to the hot part of the afternoon.

I've laugh, but I'm a Canadian living in southern Japan, and I just sweated a kidney out onto the floor.

If my air conditioner breaks, I may have to kill myself.

lesliessexxy: Would you like to borrow some of Texas' summer?

It's pretty durn hot here. And I don't normally biatch about the heat.

*clicks profile*

You can come up to Canada. We have cool summers and running water.

Civchic: threedingers: BTW, I don't know where you plan to go, but McMaster has an excellent neonatal unit.

That's where I'm headed! I'm a Mac grad so I know the place (feel comfy there), plus that's where my midwife practices.

Good call with the midwife. Mac is fantastic at the saving-your-life parts, but less so at the making-your-stay-not-miserable parts. My wife farking hated that maternity ward, the nurses seem positively _trained_ to drive you barking mad.