An interesting website

[grassfarmer]

Check out the fascinating interactive website mapping potential climate change impacts on the prairies. Quite detailed projections of future temperature and precipitation changes searchable by municipality. A lot of interesting information.

[URL="http://climateatlas.ca/home.html"]http://http://climateatlas.ca/home.html[/URL]

[mcfarms]

And here I thought it was going to be a Link to a tribute page to Karl Marx.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thanks for the link. While I don't have much faith in the models, my entire business model of farming out here on the fringe of the fringe is dependant on the climate getting warmer not colder, so these maps are at least reassuring. With snow 9 or 10 months of the year, I'm looking forward to the 146 day growing season.

[grassfarmer]

That seems a rather precarious way to build your business model AF5 - depending on the climate warming yet ignoring the possible realities that come with that scenario. Do you want to see more seed sitting ungerminated because it's too dry? Or more land unseeded due to increased incidence of heavy spring moisture events?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

That seems a rather precarious way to build your business model AF5 - depending on the climate warming yet ignoring the possible realities that come with that scenario. Do you want to see more seed sitting ungerminated because it's too dry? Or more land unseeded due to increased incidence of heavy spring moisture events?

Grassfarmer, I exaggerate slightly. The status quo is just fine. But as the cycle returns to cooling, if it is as drastic as some are forecasting, if I don't take the hint in a hurry, it could end badly. I'm also a Grass farmer, and life would go on. Us farmers are quite effective at adapting on the fly to what mother nature throws at us, but it is much easier to adapt to a longer growing season than a shorter one.

[Klause]

Climate change... it's gonna be too wet too dry too hot and too cold.


More of the same.

[checking]

I was under the impression that this perceived change was going to be a net benefit for the prairies. But, like all things Canadian, we have to show get hand wringing over its perceived effects elsewhere.

Who in the world cares, or pays, so that the prairies remain cold, yet we are to care and pay, so elsewhere doesn't warm up?

[samhill]

agree with Klause

[grassfarmer]

Climate change... it's gonna be too wet too dry too hot and too cold.
More of the same.

Kind of like the weather forecast, I guess you don't look at it either?

I was under the impression that this perceived change was going to be a net benefit for the prairies. But, like all things Canadian, we have to show get hand wringing over its perceived effects elsewhere.

Who in the world cares, or pays, so that the prairies remain cold, yet we are to care and pay, so elsewhere doesn't warm up?

Too bad you didn't look at the site as you'd have seen it was all about the effect on the prairies, nowhere else.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Do you want to see more seed sitting ungerminated because it's too dry? Or more land unseeded due to increased incidence of heavy spring moisture events?

These type of arguements don'd do the AGW supporters any favours. You are saying that both too dry and too wet will be the result, and both can be blamed on global warming. Which covers all the bases, and of course you will be correct when either one comes true, regardless of cause.

[ianben]

http://jurassiccoast.org/

Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site
95 miles of coastline... 185 million years of history.

A visit here shows how much the climate has changed, and the enormous power of nature without man.

We are not that clever that we can predict the future except that one day something will collect our fossils

[checking]

Grassfarmer.

What? - you mean your summary wasn't clear enough as to your posting intent. "fascinating interactive website mapping potential climate change impacts on the prairies-municipality."

"Potential", is the same dry statement always used. When is grassfarmer going to emphatically commit to "this is how it is".

Silly me, it's not your word. When it is, I'll look.

[grassfarmer]

So you value my opinion above the experts? thats good to know lol.