Comments | sbzar: Anddd we're freezing

sbzar

Anddd we're freezing

Dec 14, 2009 20:26

Yay us! "At one point on Saturday night, Edmonton had the dubious distinction of being the coldest place on Earth. The record low temperature of -46 degrees was measured at the Edmonton International Airport. With the Wind Chill, it felt colder than -50 ( Read more... )

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tigerlily0484 December 15 2009, 03:57:02 UTC

...sweltering on Wednesday at -11.

*blinks*

Season of death indeed. Will withhold bitching about horrid sticky weather here. You win ;)

sbzar December 15 2009, 08:46:51 UTC

Well, sweltering relatively speaking.

NCIS Christmas episode tonight. I am keeping myself expectation-less.

tigerlily0484 December 15 2009, 09:46:09 UTC

There's new NCIS tonight? (Well, whenever it appears on a DL site, probably sometime tomorrow for me) Huh. Gee, and I've really been enjoying the S3 reruns. Seems almost a shame to go back to S7.

tittamiire December 15 2009, 07:45:07 UTC

Global warming is a misnomer. During the last glacial maximum the global temperature was only a few degrees lower than it is now, but parts of the earth were much colder while others were much hotter, even during a glacial maximum.

Sooo...even during 'global warming' some places are likely to get colder, wetter, stormier etc, it is a change in systems resulting in a worldwide rise in the average temperature, but within that some places will be colder.

Having rambled about that I really hope the weather passes for you!

sbzar December 15 2009, 08:48:19 UTC

Ohhh, an educational tidbit. Thanks. I've always thought the whole "global warming panic" was essentially just that - panic.

tittamiire December 15 2009, 13:54:51 UTC

I am glad you didn't mind the titbit! I'm not sure where I stand on "global warming". There is a lot of misinformation out there and a lot of misintepretation of the information that there is. I believe the expression is "Lies, damn lies and statistics ( ... )