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Global Warming is Dying

Mar 14, 2010 3:48PM PDT

Fairly quickly too it seems. One of the major players in the world wide deception is losing it's funding.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/03/14/13225191-cp.html

The 2010 federal budget, unveiled this month, offered no new cash to the decade-old Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, a group that has been financing research on everything from melting glaciers to drought on the Prairies to the thawing permafrost.

The disappearance of a foundation that has made contributions to global initiatives on climate change is worrying for some in the international scientific community.

?There have been many countries that I think have been key players and I?ve always looked at Canada as being one of them,? said Keith Seitter, executive director of the American Meteorological Society.

?It?s disheartening to hear that there may be efforts there to actually pull back on some of them.?

Through the foundation?s networks, Canadian scientists have contributed to the World Climate Research Programme and the North American Carbon Program. (more in article)

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A Conservative Government rules Canada, and they cut funding
Mar 14, 2010 4:10PM PDT

to Global warming research. Bet they considered it for abou 12 seconds. Global Warming, or Global Climate Change as you keep ignoring th proper title is proving itself all over North America. Dry absence of snow over the northern centre of the country. Canada has had over all the warmest February and January on record, but for Toronto it's only the third or fourth warmes. The prairies is threatened by drought and crop failures, and things don't look so great int he upcoming American Growing season, so don't plan the party just yet. The last time the winter was this dry over the prairies the temperature staid about 104 for 10 straight days. Unlike Arizona ours is a very humid heat which grabs you by the throat as you leave and everytime you leave an airditioned care. We had to subsidize the farmers. You can't take a man's farm away because the weather was predictably crap six months in sdvence., but I will be basking in 13 degree celsius which should be about high 50's low 60' on Tuesday.

Of course to expect a prudent course where somehting dangeous mya be involve check the Wall Street mad, gave themselves million dollar bonuses and the gave themselves billion dollar bonuse for cleaning it up.

Rob

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title? Google it. What's in a name?
Mar 14, 2010 11:53PM PDT

23 million for Global Climate Change, almost 28 million for Global Warming. The Global Warming title wins. What does saying "Climate Change" mean? Nothing really, the climate is always changing. People even make jokes about it where they live. "If you don't like the weather now, wait 5 minutes". Saying Global Warming however puts the real agenda on the table for discussion. I could talk about Global Economic Change, but does that mean a Recession, a Depression, Worldwide bull markets? Best not to hide behind a useless title that gives no real information.

Conservatives in Canada rule, Liberals in US rule, we get colder winter, Canada gets warmer winter. Topsy turvy world isn't it?

Another way of looking at it is a possible temperature norming worldwide, which could be good. Nobody has really proven that Global Warming would be a bad thing when viewed world wide. Instead they point to a few sinking islands of less than a million people who could be transplanted without taking adequate notice of the potentially large increase in food crops.

Every year where I live the weather changes from below zero to near 100 degrees, year after year. Big deal. Think I'm upset the low end might be a bit warmer and the high end might have more rain? Nope.

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Perhaps the blame is shifting but....
Mar 15, 2010 2:42AM PDT

global warming is real and it's here to stay. Climate history shows the planet has traditionally been much warmer than it is now and that the planet is still recovering from the last ice age.