Coldest temp anomaly in the WORLD...here

[sumdumguy]

Actually wasting our breath on The troll is going to get us no where. We should be marching on Ottawa, writing masses of letters and e-mails to McKenna. Every time JT comes west we should be protesting. That is how to get your voice heard. Our livelihood is at stake not to mention our foodsources and the lives of future generations. We should be openly supporting our premier too.

[Hamloc]

Central Alberta -25 when I got up to check cows at 6:30. Then was out in the field with the front wheel assist in undisturbed snow and got stuck, luckily was able to back out. 7 day forecast nothing above zero. Lots of snow to melt yet for sure!

[fjlip]

Central Alberta -25 when I got up to check cows at 6:30. Then was out in the field with the front wheel assist in undisturbed snow and got stuck, luckily was able to back out. 7 day forecast nothing above zero. Lots of snow to melt yet for sure!

And it started in November, blizzard on the 14th, close to a MONTH late warming up. Snowmobile trails just fine to April 7th?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I've tried very hard to have civil intellectual conversations with Grassfarmer on various topics, and avoided name calling, but there is no way that anyone who is being honest with themselves thinks western Canada is better off being colder. I'm having to agree with SF3, he is a troll.

[farmaholic]

........maybe just an adversarial, contradictory, devil's advocate, no bullshit debater?

You can't pigeon hole us all in the same nest or maybe not even in the same coop.

Some fly left, some fly right, and there's afew who flew over the ****oo's nest!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

........maybe just an adversarial, contradictory, devil's advocate, no bullshit debater?

You can't pigeon hole us all in the same nest or maybe not even in the same coop.

Some fly left, some fly right, and there's afew who flew over the ****oo's nest!

I have always given him credit for playing the devil's advocate and making the rest of us consider our opinions and biases. But he really seems to believe some of the things he says.

I really appreciate a variety of viewpoints, especially those I don't agree with. But this just contradicts all science and common sense. I even recently posted a reputable university study indicating that Canada stands to drastically gain economically from potential global warming.

[farmaholic]

Conceding is humbling, it doesn't have to be humiliating.

Some people are better at defending their positions than others. More researched, not opinionated.

Name calling is childish.

I find there can be a pack mentality here at times.....everyone serves their purpose.

Grassfarmer is seldom off the mark, in my opinion. I don't agree with everything he says. Some of the stuff that "strikes a nerve" or eats at me the most might be the stuff I try to deny for any given reason.

There's lots of uncomfortable truths out there.

I could think of alot worse camps to be in than his!

It's ok to have a dissenting viewpoints. Do you guys wanting a quick thaw think I've lost my mind for making this statement, "The longer it(the snow) takes to "go away" in it's crystal form the better chance I get to "use it" in it's liquid form." We're all looking at things through a different set of eyes, opinions and circumstances.

Don't let Grassfarmer be a worm virus in your CPU(brain). Remember fellas, some parasites are "beneficial"...lol.

Take care and enjoy the Easter season. Travel safe too....

[grassfarmer]

I've tried very hard to have civil intellectual conversations with Grassfarmer on various topics, and avoided name calling, but there is no way that anyone who is being honest with themselves thinks western Canada is better off being colder. I'm having to agree with SF3, he is a troll.

Strange you would bring that up in this conversation. In response to the second last post addressed to me your comeback admitted you had misunderstood me and that I was in fact correct. You followed that up with another point of view which I again countered - civilly and intelligently asked and answered by both parties with no name calling involved. So now it's time to start name-calling, pick up your ball and go home?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Strange you would bring that up in this conversation. In response to the second last post addressed to me your comeback admitted you had misunderstood me and that I was in fact correct. You followed that up with another point of view which I again countered - civilly and intelligently asked and answered by both parties with no name calling involved. So now it's time to start name-calling, pick up your ball and go home?

I took your comment about drought out of context, that doesn't change the fact that plants need heat to grow. Our conversation was about our farms being better off with warmer vs. colder. All the evidence points to Canada benefiting from warming ( regardless of cause). Arguing against that is preposterous. Taking the contrary position to start a conversation is one thing, denying science and evidence is quite another.

[farmaholic]

If warmer means drier(which it may not necessarily mean)....a good part of the brown and dark brown soil zones may become grasshopper pasture. And the northern zones will benefit....until you go beyond the "developed" soil zones....the kind of climate and vegetation that retarded their development....they may not benefit from a warming trend especially in the nano nano time we're looking at.

I'm my opinion, neither a warming or cooling trend will serve everyone equally. There will be winners and losers, just like Mother Nature's weather moods deal out today.