3/11/09: More record-shattering cold in Edmonton

It's another record snapping cold day in the Edmonton area.

At 4:00AM this morning it was minus -37 at the International Airport. The previous record cold temperature for this date was back in 1970 when the mercury fell to minus -30.6 degrees.

Out at the Elk Island National Park gate, east of the city, it was minus -36 at 4:00AM this morning. The previous record cold reading for March 11th was minus 29 back in 2003.

3/10/09: Record-shattering cold in Edmonton

It was -42 at Edmonton International airport at 8:00AM this morning.

The previous Environment Canada official record low at the airport for this date was -29.4 in 1975 (records there go back to 1961).

The temperature at the Elk Island National park gate was -41 this morning. The previous record low there on the tenth of March was -24.6 in 2003 (records there go back to 1982).

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Peter Foster: The crumbling case for global warming - Full Comment

The conference — titled “Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis?” — attracted close to 700 participants. Most of those I met displayed almost joy at being among people who dared to stand up to the mindless climate “consensus” and the refusal to debate, or even look at, the facts, as typified by that righteous young radical.
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One of the most devastating presentations came from Gabriel Calzada, a Spanish economist who indicated how Spain’s “leadership” in subsidizing wind and solar power — which had been praised by President Obama — had produced enormous costs, no benefits and was now falling apart. “Green jobs” were calculated not only to cost around half-a-million Euros a pop, they came at the expense of two “normal” jobs. And they were now disappearing as the renewables bubble collapsed.

A questioner asked why European governments continued to promote such destructive and pointless policies. Roger Helmer, a member of the European Parliament, said it was a matter of inertia, plus the fact that there was no “Plan B.”

The task of the brave skeptics who appeared at Heartland this week is to find out how to ditch Plan A. There could be no better stimulus to the global economy.