Today's global warming spotlight: Rain in Nunavut

[Newsjock]

Sorry, it's a couple of days old ... I've been away. Temperatures in Pangnirtung were running about 50 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/iqaluit-rain-28022006.html
Last updated Feb 28 2006 08:51 AM CST
CBC News

Residents of Iqaluit and Pangnirtung have been stowing away their parkas and kamiks this week and pulling out raincoats.

Warm temperatures and rain showers across southern Baffin Island have broken almost every record on the books.

... It's only rained in February in Iqaluit three times since 1946. The last mid-winter downpour was in February 1986.

"You know what? In the 26 years that I've been looking at the weather in the North, this is one that I'm going to remember for a while," says Yvonne Bilan-Wallace, a meteorologist with Environment Canada's Arctic Weather Centre in Edmonton.

"Can you believe these temperatures? Six-point-eight degrees in Pangnirtung. That's plus. And 4.2 degrees in Iqaluit. That breaks about a 60-year record."

The normal high for this time of year is –21 C.

[cornermouse]

1. I've been wondering where the new deserts will be.

:shrug: I suspect that what is currently farmland will become desert.

[opihimoimoi]

2. The Pubs are NOT ALARMED,,,either in Denial or Oblivious

[cornermouse]

3. They'll get there.

Loss of farmland = loss of food producing land = increased world hunger

unless some of the current deserts convert to farmland, which seems sort of unlikely to me.

[opihimoimoi]

6. The Pubs, and some Dems, are infected with a Blindness to REASON & Sanity

They refuse to BELIEVE...despite MOUNTING EVIDENCE

They went past the early warnings 30 years ago...now they are in deeper DENIAL, even as the Ice Caps MELT...

Bush is STILL pulling a Katrina on us...Pretending to listen but rejection in his tiny brain...

He only listens to himself and his handlers...

Osama coming to town....reject

Katrina coming to hurt NOLA....Nada

Global Warming....Nada

Ya need 500 000 troops in Iraq....ya fired

Invade Iraq and it will be a civil war.....yeah, right

That Bush Boy don't Hunt, he don't listen, he don't unnerstan, he don't think, he don't know shit...canardly cut wood.

[hobbit709]

4. But, but, but!!

Our Fearless Leader says there is no global warming.

[donheld]

5. That's cuz his heart is still cold as ice.

:scared: