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The disruption of public services in Metro Vancouver during this unusually cold, snowy Christmas season -- especially at YVR, SkyTrain and on our icy roads -- demonstrates why global cooling poses a far greater problem here these days than Al-Gore-style global warming.

And it's strange that local eco-alarmists don't seem to have woken up to this obvious threat.

This is despite the fact that, according to figures from the leading monitoring agencies, average global temperatures haven't increased at all over the past 10 years -- unlike carbon emissions. And we may well now be in a cooling trend.

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As a year-end tradition, it’s customary to formulate New Year’s resolutions with a resolve to forgive and forget. To be meaningful and challenging, I’ve selected some issues that really bug me.

For example, these will put forgiving to a true test:
I acquit Al Gore for inventing global warming, since it’ll go down in history as a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernard Madoff’s recent gargantuan fraud.