Today is Blog Action Day

Ok I did not expect to be out so late but complications arose and I find myself posting on the tale end of this day. But at least I'm doing it.




Today I'm going to be talking about Canada, yes it is the country north of the US, it is also the country north (but in a southern kind of way) of Russia. Yes it is Canada, it is northern Canada specifically that I wish to speak about.




Last year Northern Canada received record snow falls, this past summer several small northern towns experienced massive flooding from all the snow.




*While global warming deniers may see more snow a victory you have to remember this is northern Canada where in the winter tempters can drop to -50 F.

It is essential to understand that snow can only be made at a certain temperature, somewhere around 32 to 27 F. ** These figures indicate that it is impossible for it to snow at tempters even close to -50F.


The past year's record snow fall means what? Areas where it is usually far to cold for massive snowfall, have been experiencing none other then massive snowfall! This means temperatures are rising!


I know it may sound contradictory; more snow gives global warming more credibility, but ask any meteorologist, they'll tell you- it can only snow under very specific conditions. In some parts of the word these conditions have been occurring for years in others only now are we seeing tempters high enough to allow for any snow fall.




I'd give you a list of what you can do to help, but most people already know the basics and it'd sound hypocritical and condescending going through a list that I myself only loosely fallow. It's all about starting small, it has to be consumers who make a change, companies only sell what people buy. The problem is that most people don't know or don't care.




Blog Action Day, October 15th 2007, over 15,000 blogs posting something about our home.







*http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/04/09/whitehorse-snow.html




**I got this from a number of online sources including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow and http://www.snowmakers.cz/Home%20EN/EN%20Snomax.HTM