Question: Do you really need a degree in climatology to decide whether a little global warming would be *good* for Canada?

[Canadian prairie provinces: Millions of dollars to be blown on climate change hoax bureaucracy?]

A $6.6-million program to help the Prairie provinces deal with the impact of climate change on water resources, forests and grasslands was announced at the University of Regina on Tuesday.

Ottawa and the governments of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba will fund the three-year Prairie Regional Adaptation Collaborative program, which is part of the federal government's plan to help Canadians adapt to climate change.

Natural Resources Canada will provide $3.3 million of the $6.6 million in funding for the Prairie RAC to help integrate climate change considerations into decision-making in policy, planning and operations, including drought and flood protection.

Global Warming will Benefit Canada: Tim Ball

We were told in 1976, by libertarian radio host, Lowell Ponte, in his book, The Cooling: “This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.” Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines erupted in 1991, and that event caused a 1°C drop in the global temperature in 1992, resulting in a late, poor harvest in Canada and close to no harvest at all. Cooling is a much greater problem for Canadians.
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Just a brief list of the benefits to our coldest province, Manitoba, and the coldest city, Winnipeg, illustrates the positive potential of global warming:

* Reduced heating costs,
* Reduced fuel bills for travel,
* A longer growing season allowing a greater variety of crops,
* Less frost damage and crop loss,
* A greater variety of plants for gardens and other uses,
* More rapidly growing forests and an increased rate of reforestation,
* Less frost damage to streets and roads,
* The potential for direct access to world markets through northern ports,
* Reduced construction costs in an ameliorated climate, and
* A longer summer season for tourism, and for cottagers and campers.

A warmer Canada would improve our lives in these and other ways too numerous to list. Global warming? Let's hope so.