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Re: Weather forecast for OTlympics
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:36:34 -0800
I love two things about this: "For example, my uniform is made entirely from recycled bottles," Kettlitz said. Only Corporate "Greens" would try to make plastic clothing cool. Polyester and the '70s were a fashion foul the first time around, and nothing has changed. And there is no Global Warming, at least not for the last 10 years. And there may not be for another 10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7376301.stm http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10783 That isn't saying anything about the longer term trend, just that, even if you believe in AGW, it isn't to blame for the lack of snow @ Whistler this year. What the Olympics need is a visit from Al Gore: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/04/the-gore-effect/
-----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:52 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] Weather forecast for OTlympics If you have been following Olympic coverage at all, you will know that the big story of these games is not the doping, not the cost overruns (and the hidden ones, pushing cost per capita to $2K for every man, woman, and child
in
BC), not the over-eager border guards, Not the implicit fight between the
region
and one of the major sponsors ( http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickgambkkiicafkinlonldeho&M=34 ), not the idiots trying to get some press time out of this by predicting an influx of "hackers" (
http://www.vancouversun.com/Games+sure+bring+gold+medal+hackers+town+ex
pe rt+war ns/2544449/story.html ), and not the massive security presence (heard last night of cancer patient who, because of airport security, will not be allowed to come to Vancouver for treatment during the games), but the weather.http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/roadtothegames/weather.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Weekend+forecast+gloomy+slushy+C
yp ress+events/2549879/story.html Snow being trucked in from two different mountain ranges to try and
get
something on the tiny run on Cypress. Fog thick enough to cancel practice sessions on Whistler. My wife has taken to referring to the Spring Olympics. Freestyle slushboarding. Mud luge. Figure skidding. Giant downhilll (blind) slide. And, as for Vancouver:Text Forecast: Issued at 5.00 AM PST Wednesday 10 February 2010 Today..Cloudy. Rain beginning this morning. Amount 5 mm. Becomingwindy latethis afternoon. High 7. Tonight..Rain ending this evening then
cloudy
with 60percent chance of showers. Amount 5 mm. Windy. Temperature steadynear 6.Thursday..Rain. Amount 20 mm. Becoming windy. High 9.
Friday..Periods
of rain.Low 6. High 10. Saturday..Periods of rain. Low 6. High 9.Sunday..Cloudy with 70percent chance of showers. Low plus 5. High 9. Monday..Cloudy with
30
percentchance of showers. Low plus 4. High 9. Tuesday..Cloudy with 30percent chance ofshowers. Low plus 4. High 9. Normals for the period..Low plus 1.
High
8. (Last week we had some lovely sun. Too bad it's all gone now.) In true Canadian fashion, we will apologize all over the place for the lousy weather. In reality, this is working out just the way we planned it. Let's face it, Vancouver doesn't do snow. I can recall, 30 years ago, driving down the main drag, looking at the North Shore Mountains, and seeing the giant brown patch on Grouse Mountain with absolutely no snow at all. Feb. 6, it was. At the time, I was listening to a news report about snow falling in Miami. All you have to do, to track the El Nino cycles, is to track the pattern of bankruptcies of the North Shore ski hills. They happen regularly.
So,
years back, the Powers-That-Be looked at the cycles, extended them, and realized that 2010 would be a no-snow year. Perfect. Book the games! (In the interim, this forecast has been solidified by the global warming trend.) (We could not have predicted that Intrawest, the owner of most of the Whistler resorts, would have gotten itself into embarrassing financial trouble right before the games. That the new [American] owners went bankrupt, and then
made
stupid statements all over the press about shuttering the place and holding
an
auction during the games, was just icing on the cake.) We made sure of having a cold winter last year so that everything is late blooming this year. Normally the place would be covered in cherry and
forsythia
blassoms. This year, dead sticks. See, if we are going to have the TV (and Web) cameras of the entire world here for two weeks, we don't want to have the place looking its best. Everybody would want to move here. Sorry, but we don't have room for you all. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm
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